Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] she for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 've only got her for five years , then she has to go back to the Foundling Hospital . ’ |
| 2 | He had not said that he believed her , had only touched her for that fleeting moment , but she knew what she had felt . |
| 3 | She wondered if fate had just punished her for picking wild flowers . |
| 4 | ( There is a constant flow of Micks visiting our affiliated Royal Navy ship , the destroyer HMS Boxer ; some of Support Company had just joined her for a Channel cruise . ) |
| 5 | Alison regarded me as though I were a dosser who 'd just importuned her for some spare change . |
| 6 | For all her self-confidence , her upbringing had not prepared her for that . ’ |
| 7 | Jay 's life had not exactly prepared her for falling In Love , still less for I was never in love with you . |
| 8 | He had not seen her for a while and he was pretty sure she had committed suicide . |
| 9 | I 've not seen her for ages . ’ |
| 10 | I have not seen her for days . ’ |
| 11 | she kept in touch with them for some time but er , I 've not seen her for a year so , I would n't know . |
| 12 | I 'd not seen her for quite some time , you know . |
| 13 | Unlike Napoleon 's mother , Elena Petrescu left no memorable quotation or hint that peasant-wisdom had perhaps already prepared her for her world to be turned downside-up again . |
| 14 | ‘ I have already paid her for tonight . ’ |
| 15 | He has just photographed her for the latest Dolce e Gabbana campaign in New York . |
| 16 | The room , the cottage , Ryan , her lack of confidence , all faded ; there was only now , this one moment in time , and nothing in her life had ever prepared her for the feelings she experienced . |
| 17 | The headmistress , who had always ridiculed her for being bad at games , now referred to her as ‘ our best pupil ’ and gave her a set of Shakespeare , duly inscribed . |
| 18 | He might have had the last word , but he had n't really forgiven her for her temerity in trying to put him down . |
| 19 | With an effort she walked across the room to Jerry , who had so often asked her for a date and who , given any encouragement , would have been a frequent visitor to Blue Ash Farm . |
| 20 | What happened , though , was he ordered one of the captains on a dangerous mission-just how dangerous I knew — on which he 'd been wounded and the young wives had n't forgiven her for it . |
| 21 | She had only to take one look at him to realise he had n't forgiven her for walking out on him , nor for going to see Robert Dexter behind his back , and her heart sank . |
| 22 | I realised that I had n't visited her for some weeks and agreed to go to her house after school . |
| 23 | He 's got a wife in his home , but he ai n't seen her for ages . |
| 24 | No , he had n't seen her for a week before that weekend ; he had missed her — this with a baleful glance towards the door — and had indeed got as far as ringing her up on the Saturday morning , hoping she would come up for Sunday , but had got no answer from her flat . |
| 25 | One had n't seen her for ages . |
| 26 | She even told them about the nice young man who said he had n't seen her for some time . |
| 27 | Dad hated old Gran anyway , we had n't seen her for years and she always sent me Californian Poppy Bath Salts for Christmas . |
| 28 | I did n't notice at first ; I saw her walking down the street in front of me , and without any hesitation I knew who it was — I had n't seen her for over a year , she had cut her hair off short and was wearing a dress , but I knew . |
| 29 | I have n't seen her for ages . ’ |
| 30 | Have n't seen her for ages . ’ |