Example sentences of "she [vb past] [pers pn] for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As with the girl who died earlier in the year , this beaker of solution was in her bedroom and she mistook it for a bedtime drink . |
| 2 | She came over to me one night and she asked me for a lift . |
| 3 | I believed her on both counts , especially when she visited me for a weekend and gave me a bottle of ‘ Denim ’ aftershave which she had shoplifted from a Chemist in mid Wales . |
| 4 | She tried it for a week , and then , then went to live with the Americans , and said the food was too fattening . |
| 5 | Carolyn knew that he was angry with her , for some reason which she could n't fathom , and that the more she pressed him for an explanation the more he clammed up over it . |
| 6 | She watched him for a while , feeling superfluous . |
| 7 | She watched him for a moment . |
| 8 | She watched him for a moment , wishing she did n't feel so defensive every time he broached the subject of Arnie . |
| 9 | She watched it for a while until the ball came rather close . |
| 10 | She examined it for a moment , then squeezed it between thumb and fingernail and dropped it on the floor . |
| 11 | And then , because she did n't want to be saying goodbye to him any sooner than she had to , she took him for a wander through the main part of the Hall to see how the preparations were going . |
| 12 | And then she quite confounded me by doing exactly what I advised , and I always thought she took me for a crank whose horse sense , if any , was a forced calm not to be heeded . |
| 13 | She took us for a walk with a soldier , |
| 14 | She knew it for a fact . |
| 15 | Harry Martin was behind all this , and , although she had n't a hope of proving it , she knew it for a fact . |
| 16 | And she knew it for a fact when he murmured smoothly , ‘ I think I might find it agreeable . ’ |
| 17 | She saw it for a second , then it went behind a wave , and came up again . |
| 18 | She lifted her lip at me — I think she meant it for a smile . ’ |
| 19 | Mary had a metal cow she bought it for a tanner and every morning just at six she milked it with a |
| 20 | She despised him for an affair that had begun and ended thirty years before . |
| 21 | She stood it for a year . |
| 22 | She held them for a moment , inhaling their perfume . |