Example sentences of "[prep] she for the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Anne herself found that when she voiced her grievances quietly and calmly , rather than screaming them , her family paid attention to her for the first time . |
| 32 | We kissed goodnight , and I again apologised to her for the fright she had . |
| 33 | Seeing that my daughter Anna has not availed herself of my advice touching the objectionable practice of going about with her arms bare to the elbows , my will is that , should she continue after my death this violation of the modesty of her sex , all goods , chattels , moneys , land , and other that I have devised to her for the maintenance of her future life shall pass to the oldest of the sons of my sister Caroline . |
| 34 | Unusually , no blame is attached to her for the outcome . |
| 35 | ‘ She must stand half an hour longer on that chair , and nobody may speak to her for the rest of the day . ’ |
| 36 | Her heart thumped painfully as she remembered him making love to her for the first time , the hard , forceful thrust of his body coming much quicker than she had expected , an abrupt shock after all the gentleness that had gone before . |
| 37 | The unremitting contempt had become unendurable , although it occurred to her for the first time that Luke might actually resent her . |
| 38 | The Inspector turned to her for the first time , but if he was cheered by her observation he gave no sign of his approval . |
| 39 | Neither was she too happy about the epithet ‘ min skat ’ , which he 'd applied to her for the second time that day . |
| 40 | It occurred to her for the first time that there were a couple of curious anomalies in her childhood . |
| 41 | It occurred to her for the first time that there was no sign of a car , apart from her own . |
| 42 | It sounded as though the reality of what they were doing had come home to her for the first time . |
| 43 | She knew that this would be a black cloud hanging over her for the rest of her working life . |
| 44 | He looked at her for the first time with real unease . |
| 45 | He looked at her for the first time since the beginning ; her head was still turned away , her hands over her face ; she had shown no further response to anything he had done . |
| 46 | As she turned to wait for me at the end of the path , I felt I was looking at her for the first time : her face paler than her arms , a blonde shadow on her upper lip , no lipstick . |
| 47 | George turned to Catherine , kissed her hands and seemed content to stare at her for the rest of the night if not for the rest of his life : Mary bowed her head a little and Hope looked away , sipped at his claret , could do no more . |
| 48 | Infected by his laughter the wife of the younger mandarin smiled , and Joseph looked at her for the first time . |
| 49 | Cheryl looked at her for the first time . |
| 50 | He shrugged , leaning back in his chair , smiling at her for the first time with that devastating smile which made her heart beat faster . |
| 51 | He looked at her for the first time and saw the tears on her cheeks that were glistening in the starlight . |
| 52 | Her startling assertion is made mainly on the basis of a three-year research project carried out by her for the Centre For Social and Moral Education . |
| 53 | Yet Mrs Thatcher 's unassailable , inaccessible image was explicitly fashioned by her for the media . |
| 54 | The county court judge gave judgment for the mother in an action brought by her for the £1 per week based upon the father 's undertaking . |