Example sentences of "[conj] she [verb] [pron] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes , although she chided herself for the thought , it seemed as if in trying to be unselfish and giving him what he wanted , she had allowed herself to be turned into a sacrifice . |
| 2 | As a single woman living with her uncle , the negligent landlord Mr Brooke , Dorothea has good reason to concern herself with cottages , although she intends them for the estate of the obliging Sir James , having presumably abandoned her uncle as a hopeless case . |
| 3 | That she does it for the money , which symbolises affection , emotional security and personal achievement . |
| 4 | Short of battering him on the head with a blunt instrument — the thought held immense appeal , and she savoured it for a long moment , before reluctantly putting it on hold — she could n't come up with any way out of the present situation . |
| 5 | And she knew it for a fact when he murmured smoothly , ‘ I think I might find it agreeable . ’ |
| 6 | She came over to me one night and she asked me for a lift . |
| 7 | And she asked me for the fifty P . |
| 8 | As with the girl who died earlier in the year , this beaker of solution was in her bedroom and she mistook it for a bedtime drink . |
| 9 | Security said they 'd send someone over right away , and she busied herself for the next few minutes with the half-dozen patients in the waiting area . |
| 10 | She had chosen for herself the human equivalent of sackcloth and ashes , and she denounced herself for a masochist . |
| 11 | They could n't avoid being seen together and she braced herself for the blast from Georg and from her parents . |
| 12 | Managing the boat , he was in total command , and she admired him for the ease with which he wove between the countless busy craft , the pleasure boats , gondolas and the small and large ferries , his eyes constantly alert . |
| 13 | The photo was in there , too , but she left it for the time being . |
| 14 | I used to go and fetch the , the butter from do n't bring margarine my father used to say we put better stuff on our machines so er I used to go to for my father kept foul , I used to fetch a peck of , bushel of this and a bushel of , you know all the various things that , bran and stuff for the foul yes , yes and I believe a lady , she has , she 's only recently died and but she kept it for a long long while Elsie her name was . |
| 15 | Instinctively her hand drew the sheet higher before she chided herself for the gesture . |
| 16 | I believed her on both counts , especially when she visited me for a weekend and gave me a bottle of ‘ Denim ’ aftershave which she had shoplifted from a Chemist in mid Wales . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'll be working like a Trojan for the next twelve weeks , ’ Lisa smiled back as she thanked him for the coffee . |
| 18 | In fact , as she considered it for the first time , she wondered how any of them had survived to tell the tale . |