Example sentences of "[to-vb] she [adv] for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I went to visit her just for a coffee or something , and she started saying , after a lot of stuttering , that I was having an affair with her husband . |
| 2 | She rocked the baby in her arms , refusing to put her down for a minute , and she sang snatches of lullabies she remembered her mother singing so many years ago . |
| 3 | There was enough money in her savings account to see her through for a while . |
| 4 | He had to hold her one-handed for a moment , and to hold her steady even though she was fighting him hard . |
| 5 | Her Uncle Tom is delighted and arranges to take her out for a slap up meal . |
| 6 | He might even hand it over tonight when he called to take her out for a meal . |
| 7 | Robert merely had to drop a few bon mots from Marwan Ibrahim Al-Kaysi 's handbook into the conversation and Maisie 's eyes widened the way they did when you offered to take her out for a meal or when she was telling you how someone had told someone that she had a beautiful mouth . |