Example sentences of "she for a " in BNC.
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1 | They were in 'er for a dinner Which was excellent , in Pinner , And another one , a cracker , In Majacca — that 's in Spain |
2 | He for a boy and she for a girl and it for anything . |
3 | Yeah I mean she for a bit she was the party was n't she ? |
4 | For a while Elaine was cared for by young volunteers who used to come and stay with her for a few months at a time . |
5 | ‘ As far as the grassroots are concerned we have got one , and I hope we have her for a very long time . ’ |
6 | The effort of thinking up a new way to tackle a dragon , a beloved dragon , daunted her for a minute . |
7 | ‘ He wanted to swop her for a guarantee that he would not be arrested ’ |
8 | ( There is a constant flow of Micks visiting our affiliated Royal Navy ship , the destroyer HMS Boxer ; some of Support Company had just joined her for a Channel cruise . ) |
9 | He chortled as Herr Nordern shuddered , and laughed again as the waitress , a stout fifty year old , brought the beer and refused his offer to take her for a sensuous holiday in Siberia . |
10 | Neil Kinnock and others pressed her for a while about Nigel Lawson 's resignation . |
11 | Having met Hermione Farthingale , David lived with her for a year . |
12 | as he half knew , he would be asked to acquiesce in some lunatic scheme for pulling Tristram out of trouble , and saw her for a moment from a position of detachment : a tall young woman looking younger than her twenty-nine years . |
13 | She had her key ready and he looked down at her for a minute . |
14 | She did n't come , which was surprising ; she was a docile creature and particularly devoted to him because he always took her for a walk when he was at the stables . |
15 | No , he had n't seen her for a week before that weekend ; he had missed her — this with a baleful glance towards the door — and had indeed got as far as ringing her up on the Saturday morning , hoping she would come up for Sunday , but had got no answer from her flat . |
16 | As they stood patiently in a doorway waiting for the column to pass , Catherine turned to say something to McLeish and he looked down at her for a long moment . |
17 | He wanted to take her for a ride . |
18 | A few days after the Argentinian surrender , I saw her for a meeting on health service pay . |
19 | Fortunately my mother was able to return to teaching and to complete the final two or three years which qualified her for a pension of her own . |
20 | His technique was to go up to one at a literary party and ask her for a cigarette . |
21 | Nigel sent her a nice little note inviting her for a drink . |
22 | Joe watched her for a second , his long finger delicately turning the gold ring in his ear . |
23 | It did not occur to her for a moment that she might not be right . |
24 | ( Only now do I realize how strong the desire in her for a daughter must have been to cause her to dress her youngest son as a little girl almost until the day he went to school , his fair hair nearly reaching his waist ; yet he had grown up a man . ) |
25 | ‘ Only that if you could stay with her for a night or two , I might manage to get over and see you there . ’ |
26 | She , Clarissa , was not looking forward to telephoning Lady Southdown , as she was bound to do , to thank her for a lovely evening . |
27 | Delia had taken her for a walk in the park and Mrs Miniver — always an inquisitive ‘ person ’ by nature — had squeezed through railings alongside the river and promptly slid down the bank into the water . |
28 | Progress was painfully slow ; I had owned her for a year before she wagged her tail at me . |
29 | Though sometimes , the gentlemen chucked her beneath the chin absently , or gave her a sixpence , and one , even , pushed her for a whole quarter-hour on the swing . |
30 | I gazed at her for a long time , slowly enraptured . |