Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [verb] for her [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jonadab was waiting for her at the stair bottom . |
| 2 | My grandmother was taken ill with a burst ulcer and an ambulance was called for her at 10.45 , but it did not arrive for two and a half hours . |
| 3 | That question was decided for her in a most terrible way . |
| 4 | Rune was waiting for her in the foyer as she stepped out of the lift . |
| 5 | An important paper was read for her in 1900 to the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland by her cousin , Gerard Baldwin Brown [ q.v. ] , and thereafter controversial articles in learned journals culminated in 1912 in the publication by John Murray of The Early Norman Castles of the British Isles , which is still considered a seminal work on the subject . |
| 6 | The manager was waiting for her at the desk , deftly fidgeting with a half-stuffed peregrine falcon . |
| 7 | In the small , square grave-yard , tangled with bramble and escalonia and overgrown with rank grass and nettles , a hole was dug for her among the bones of former generations ; bones of old women and men scarcely yet forgotten were turned up to make a place for her among them . |
| 8 | The plaintiff drank the ginger beer , and when a second glass was poured for her by her friend a decomposing snail which had been in the bottle floated out . |