Example sentences of "[prep] she for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hordes of admirers screech that they would be only too willing to take Kylie home and look after her for a while . |
| 2 | Maurice stared after her for a moment . |
| 3 | You could decide to work at a time when your partner or a friend is round to see the baby , or arrange for someone — a childminder or relative — to look after her for a few hours each week . |
| 4 | Snappy bounded after her for a few yards , then scampered away to follow his mistress . |
| 5 | No , yeah I 'll come with you , you go off and stay with Joyce , look after her for a little while and let Kenneth sort things out ! |
| 6 | Oh , indeed so , erm our domestic life is extraordinarily complicated but when , after my maternity leave expired and when I 'd finished having time off and breast feeding the baby , he in fact looked after her for a term in Cambridge and I came back to Sussex and taught during the week and went back to my daughter and husband at weekends , and now he 's actually taking leave in his turn , if you like , so that he can be the back-up here while I teach and do my work this year . |
| 7 | She stopped to catch a child by the hand and whisper some word which was rewarded with a kiss , then caught the corner of her veil to cover her already masked face as the chief driver came towards her for a quick answer to a query , always given and received after the words of greeting and queries as to health had been exchanged . |
| 8 | She always did bring the water eventually , and to her cronies Mairi sometimes admitted she was glad to see the back of her for a few hours ; but that never weakened her tongue . |
| 9 | He came from Cambridge , and I have n't heard of her for a number of years . |
| 10 | Like the other playwrights whose response to Thatcherism and brutality has been some hand-wringing of their own , Barker is too infatuated by his heroine 's strength to humanise her withe vulnerability and too in awe of her for a passionate or coolly detached opposition . |
| 11 | He lay prone on top of her for a few moments then he rolled to one side , panting loudly , his breath slowly returning to normal . |
| 12 | Iskandara had felt behind her for a chair back and now stood gripping it , her free hand clenched about the head of her stick . |
| 13 | For a while Elaine was cared for by young volunteers who used to come and stay with her for a few months at a time . |
| 14 | Having met Hermione Farthingale , David lived with her for a year . |
| 15 | ‘ Only that if you could stay with her for a night or two , I might manage to get over and see you there . ’ |
| 16 | When she does so , you or another relative could suggest staying there with her for a day or two until she is ready to face the loneliness she has to learn to live with . |
| 17 | He chatted with her for a few minutes , then placed the bag of clothes into the boot of his car , and headed for home . |
| 18 | When she finally had to put down my old cat Mrs , she said afterwards , ‘ Would you like to stay and be alone with her for a while ? |
| 19 | By the time she reached Venice , they had had enough : ‘ they would not go with her for a hundred pound ’ , and left her on her own . |
| 20 | And when she jumped up again , the chair sort of stuck to the seat of those awful green breeches she wears and came up with her for a few seconds until the thick syrup slowly came unstuck . |
| 21 | She let us stay with her for a week after Dada — ’ She paused , and again her hesitation appeared as if her mind were groping for an answer or a revelation to something she could n't understand ; then she said , ‘ After Dada … died . |
| 22 | It was about time she stopped feeling sorry for herself , the hurt and pain of losing mam would be with her for a long time , but Hari knew she could not let her grief incapacitate her , if she did not mend and make shoes she did not eat . |
| 23 | Of course , being down to earth is one of Pam 's greatest strengths , and it 's good to know she 's back on track and that we 'll still be able to laugh with her for a while yet . |
| 24 | While we are there could you excuse yourself , leave me alone with her for a short while . |
| 25 | ‘ I have an old friend who works for a publisher in New York and I stayed with her for a couple of weeks while I found a job . |
| 26 | Topaz found herself praying to a God to whom she did n't quite believe that Andrew would agree and stay with her for a while . |
| 27 | In the end , the big woman with the cherries in her hat had dragged the now screaming child from his mother 's arms , pulling poor Edith along with her for a few steps until she had dropped sobbing on to the linoleum . |
| 28 | He lay with her for a little while as if all had been for the best and when , with a sudden , slithering movement , she was off the bed and into her dress , he thanked her , wished her good night . |
| 29 | Last night 's humiliating episode would be with her for a very long time . |
| 30 | How he had intended that they should live with her for a while , and how his mother had a grudge against Bridget , and the terrible row they had had the previous night , and how they did n't know where they were going to live . |