Example sentences of "she [vb past] he [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twice she asked him to stay for a cup of tea , but he refused . |
| 2 | At the end of the week she discovered he worked for an average of 1 minute at a time . |
| 3 | Evelyn shuddered as she watched him crouch for a second , then spring up and take off jauntily like a half mangled insect . |
| 4 | She felt a warm sense of power as she kept him dangling for a moment . |
| 5 | Naylor Massingham demanded , growing more furious , she realised , the longer she kept him waiting for an answer . |
| 6 | She said he worked for the fund on a voluntary basis , adding : ‘ It had nothing to do with Nalgo . |