Example sentences of "she [adv] for a [noun sg] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Last Tuesday Nellie , my wife , had to go to hospital and they kept her in for a day and a night for eye tests . |
| 2 | That 's why we 'll keep her in for a week or so , for tests , but our consultant is very pleased with her — and very optimistic . |
| 3 | ‘ Oh — do n't tell me , I do n't want to know , ’ Emmie cried passionately , flinging herself down on top of William who suffered her patiently for a moment and then got up , shook himself and moved away . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He tilted her face , looking at her deeply for a moment and then letting her go . |
| 6 | My , my sister- in-law , she w had to go in just before Christmas , had to rather suddenly she 's was diagnosed in the summer as having diverticulitis and they planned a sort of diet out to keep her really well and she was in terrible pain and they rushed her off for a scan and er she goes privately cos Vernon , I think actually his is BUPA that he 's in , he joined when it first came out and she wrote to me and she said oh I 'm , I just feel so lonely , there 's nobody to talk to , I 've got nobody to see or anything and she felt a bit cos she was n't really that ill |
| 7 | A couple of months ago he took her out for a meal and she tried to kiss him . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He stared at her steadily for a moment and then nodded . |
| 10 | He looked at her steadily for a moment and then his hard expression softened considerably . |