Example sentences of "she [vb past] [pron] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , while Anna slept , she read it for the tenth time . |
| 2 | And she asked me for the fifty P . |
| 3 | Do I want this job so badly ? she asked herself for the hundredth time . |
| 4 | So what was wrong with her ? she asked herself for the hundredth time as she sat sipping a glass of wine in his apartment in the Barbican some weeks after they 'd first met . |
| 5 | Security said they 'd send someone over right away , and she busied herself for the next few minutes with the half-dozen patients in the waiting area . |
| 6 | To cover the fact that she had far too many feelings altogether , she ignored him for the first part of the morning . |
| 7 | They just were n't compatible , she told herself for the umpteenth time . |
| 8 | This is crazy , she told herself for the umpteenth time . |
| 9 | I was not proposing to ask her about her relationship , or lack of it , with Edward VIII and Mrs Simpson , or to what degree she blamed them for the unexpected and , at the time , unwelcome change in her life . |
| 10 | She saw them for the first time about half way through the second week . |
| 11 | In fact , as she considered it for the first time , she wondered how any of them had survived to tell the tale . |