Example sentences of "she for a " in BNC.
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| 31 | Gradually it became possible to stop her for a few seconds , and then to ask her to start walking again before her anxiety rose and she reared . |
| 32 | Hordes of admirers screech that they would be only too willing to take Kylie home and look after her for a while . |
| 33 | He vowed that when they returned in the summer he would take her for a holiday . |
| 34 | And Jeannie , I remember Jeannie well and wrote to her for a while , but she was not much of a correspondent . ’ |
| 35 | Invite her for a meal sometime . ’ |
| 36 | At the war 's end , charity assembled to comfort her for a brief moment and whilst wishing her long life , nevertheless dispersed and never reassembled . |
| 37 | Evelyn looked at her for a long moment . |
| 38 | The outspoken Mrs Clinton , an assertive Leftish lawyer , has already become a campaign issue because of a scathing remark she made about women who ‘ stay at home and bake cookies ’ and because Mr Clinton says he will consider her for a job in his Cabinet once he wins the White House . |
| 39 | Precisely because Stars & Stripes can not match the speed of Kanza and America , Conner 's designers have optimised her for a narrow light air band of 5–8 knots . |
| 40 | He said to Mariana , ‘ I 'll take her for a few minutes . |
| 41 | He had not seen her for a while and he was pretty sure she had committed suicide . |
| 42 | There was a much-told tale of her Australian infancy that was held to be prophetic in this respect — about how at the age of three she had , by the sheer force of her will , compelled her uncle Walter ( who was taking her for a walk to the local shops at the time ) to put all the money he had on his person into a charity collecting-box in the shape of a plaster-of-Paris boy cripple ; as a result of which the uncle , too embarrassed to admit to this folly and borrow from his relatives , had run out of petrol on the way back to his sheep station . |
| 43 | Charles had given it to her for a joke , suggesting she use it as a visual aid to introduce Saussurean linguistics to first-year undergraduates , holding the tube aloft to demonstrate that what is onomatopoeia in one language community may be obscenity in another . |
| 44 | He gapes at her for a moment , then chortles and slaps his thigh . |
| 45 | Then one day , when she came out of school there was a car waiting to take her for a screen test , and something magical happened as soon as she stood in front of a camera , and she became an actress , a real actress not a washed-up joke like her mother , and everyone admired her . |
| 46 | She always did bring the water eventually , and to her cronies Mairi sometimes admitted she was glad to see the back of her for a few hours ; but that never weakened her tongue . |
| 47 | He eyed her for a moment , spat in disgust , and ignoring her , turned to his men crowding the galley 's side . |
| 48 | Iain did n't notice her for a while , but eventually it dawned on him that the blur in the corner of his eye was n't just a blob of grease on his eyelash . |
| 49 | Henry lowered himself into the driver 's seat and stood looking out at her for a moment . |
| 50 | The daughter no longer had to provide care but said ‘ I merely go to see her for a chat and the company nowadays ’ . |
| 51 | Some years later , Hellen and I met her again in Hong Kong , where the impresario , Harry Odell , had brought her for a concert . |
| 52 | Managers found it impossible to maintain discipline : if a girl found a man to keep her for a while , she would ‘ scarper ’ ( disappear ) . |
| 53 | Kevin : Well , I 'd jist got my Giro , So I asked her for a Biro — If she |
| 54 | I beg you to allow me to speak to her for a few moments , and , if you would be so kind , also to yourself . |
| 55 | Gary stared at her for a moment , pins spewing from his mouth and catching on the front of his black jersey . |
| 56 | He came from Cambridge , and I have n't heard of her for a number of years . |
| 57 | He had begged her for a doctor . |
| 58 | Like the other playwrights whose response to Thatcherism and brutality has been some hand-wringing of their own , Barker is too infatuated by his heroine 's strength to humanise her withe vulnerability and too in awe of her for a passionate or coolly detached opposition . |
| 59 | He stood over her for a moment , smiling gently , then he sat on a chair so that she did n't have to look up at him . |
| 60 | He looked at her for a moment . |