Example sentences of "[vb past] she for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I invited her for tea . |
| 2 | A short time later , he photographed her for Playboy . |
| 3 | The penguin who had said the word warm shook her head sadly , and tho' the young penguin pestered her for days and days she heard no more about it . |
| 4 | Bruce , 47 , said she happily accepted the £125 he paid her for furniture , china and jewellery . |
| 5 | And once , as she filmed in WPc uniform in London 's Shepherd 's Bush market , a woman who had been mugged thought she was the real Bill and begged her for help . |
| 6 | Later in the night , as she lay crying at his side , he bade her for God 's sake to stop snivelling , so that he might get to sleep . |
| 7 | Kit knelt in front of Ariel and cried ; he asked her for forgiveness . |
| 8 | I asked her for help — I wanted to go back to Scotland ! |
| 9 | Félicie waited with him for news of the birth , and during the anxious time Modi asked her for advice , knowing that Jeanne was too preoccupied in looking after him and coping with her mother 's often unhelpful interference to look after a new baby alone . |
| 10 | I knew her for months before she admitted , in a low voice , what her job was — as if she were some sort of traitor to society . |
| 11 | The brothers , who now had good jobs , took her for meals where she could eat her fill of exotic sea foods and rich desserts . |
| 12 | The one that you bought her for Christmas . |
| 13 | She was abandoned by her mother when she was a year old , and her father gave her for adoption . ’ |
| 14 | Had she for instance dictated that the partner should offer resistance this would have been a relatively crude way of ‘ tightening ’ the structure compared with instructing the listener to be in a ‘ counsellor ’ role . |
| 15 | He has two grown-up children , Dean and Roberta , by his first marriage to a former model , Tina , which broke up in a blaze of publicity after he left her for Stephanie . |
| 16 | He broke off in mid-sentence , as if suddenly realising who he was talking to , and abruptly left her for Mary Deare . |
| 17 | Then , when Warners sued her for breach of contract , she reluctantly agreed to return to the studio corral while making certain that the trade press was fully apprised of her frustration . |
| 18 | And if her head warned her that he only wanted her for sex , her heart ignored the warning and opened itself joyfully to his tender passion . |
| 19 | Joshua held her for half-an-hour , dozing contentedly . |