Example sentences of "[Wh det] she [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I shall ride up on the Norton , ’ he told her , and there was a difficult pause in which she waited for him to suggest she should come up to Liverpool in the New Year . |
| 2 | On the historical side , the most important acquisition was a letter of Mary Queen of Scots to the Earl of Leicester , 1567 , in which she asks for his assistance in promoting a good relationship between her and Queen Elizabeth . |
| 3 | But tossed about by a cruel world , Iris is not the sort of girl who quietly puts up with her destiny — just as the flower beneath which she reads for a moment , while a woman 's revenge wreaks horrible havoc in the final minutes , is not just an ordinary cactus . |
| 4 | The child was entirely Lassiter in appearance so that , while she was pleased on Stephen 's behalf , Tamar could not feel the deep love which she had for her daughter . |
| 5 | Robyn , doing her best to ignore the almost overwhelming feeling of pure dislike which she had for this man , glanced at the ornate carriage clock beside the bed , registered the time slowly and looked aghast . |
| 6 | She was all set to paint , but when Vitor slid his hands into his trouser pockets and , with jacket flaring back , strolled across to inspect the items which she had for sale , her gaze compulsively followed him . |
| 7 | She claimed she had never realised the significance of the tape , which she played for the first time ‘ weeks later ’ . |
| 8 | The integration of the two voices which she calls for , leaves men with much further to go than women , who she seems to see as already ‘ bilingual ’ in moral judgements to some extent ( Auerbach et al . |
| 9 | Only time will tell but at least it is a step in the right direction and certainly in line with the views expressed by Mary Joe Fernandez in a splendidly reasoned and cogent article which she wrote for The New York Times at the end of last year . |
| 10 | Her fingers were sliding over the satiny warmth of her skin , and in a sweet intimate flash of reminder , or of warning , her body ( her secret breathing body which she ignored for nearly all of her time , trying to forget it ) came to life and spoke to her . |
| 11 | You refer to her stately homes , which she cared for deeply , but more importantly round these homes she knew by name a huge number of tenants , workers and friends who always received a warm and cheerful word , and many enjoyed great generosity from her and her husband . |
| 12 | At which she reached for a bottle of whisky called Old Rarity . |
| 13 | Her best known books , though , were Royal Service and Royal Secrets , which she ghost-wrote for the Prince of Wales 's former valet , Stephen Barry . |
| 14 | ‘ Personal self-denial for the good of others was the first important lesson Annie learned , ’ says Taylor , ‘ and it was a principle by which she stood for the rest of her life . ’ |
| 15 | This meant she could continue to level her basilisk stare ( the one which she reserves for special enemies ) at selected MPs . |
| 16 | The garden depicted with such passionate intensity is based on one at Maytham Hall , a house in Kent which she rented for many years and last visited in 1907 . |
| 17 | She pinched herself , but might as well have been pinching the padded plastic of the bed on which she sat for all the sensation she felt . |
| 18 | In May 1936 , believing the emperor of Ethiopia 's cause to be a just one , she began a weekly journal , New Times and Ethiopia News , which she edited for twenty years . |
| 19 | May I warmly congratulate my right hon. Friend both on her statement this afternoon and on all the ways in which she works for the British interest both in Europe and elsewhere in the world ? |
| 20 | Not until her mid-thirties did she find her taste change , and even then by chance , as good manners constrained her to eat what she had for so many years quite strenuously resisted . |
| 21 | When a sender judges her receiver 's schema to correspond to a significant degree with her own , she need only mention features which are not contained in it ( the time of getting up and what she had for breakfast , for example ) ; other features ( like getting out of bed and getting dressed ) will be assumed to be present by default , unless we are told otherwise . |
| 22 | Maybe he thought men , making up roughly half the population , would reckon that the poor , wretched girl , labelled so cruelly ‘ The Big ‘ Un ’ , got what she asked for , exactly what she deserved , when 13 soldiers indecently assaulted her . |
| 23 | All this mateyness not what she asked for . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm only interested in who she is , an' what she does for a livin' , ’ she said sharply . |
| 25 | Er i she was in the Cheltenh Do you know what she does for a living ? |
| 26 | she 's obviously , you know , when you think what she does for you , marvellous ! |
| 27 | ‘ But then Elizabeth wanted a challenge , it 's what she lived for . ’ |
| 28 | She simply did not know , although deep in her heart she feared that what she felt for Nicky Scott Wilson was not true love . |
| 29 | She looked at Peter , gravely answering the teasing of one of the lovers , and wondered if what she felt for him was the same quality of feeling that her parents had known and relied upon . |
| 30 | What she felt for David was not love but gratitude , with maybe a scattering of affection . |