Example sentences of "[v-ing] for she [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the same time , I was refusing for her to be brought to the prison because although I wanted to see her more than anything , I was damn sure she was n't going to come to prison and see me . |
| 2 | It appears that , following her leaving Ontario , the lawyers who had been acting for her in Ontario were removed from the record . |
| 3 | ‘ Let me do that for you , ’ he said , for it did not seem fitting for her to be pouring out drinks . |
| 4 | " We 've been out looking for her since five , " said another man . |
| 5 | We have been looking for her for three weeks . |
| 6 | He found himself looking for her in the street , in the trains that took him down to his busking . |
| 7 | In parallel , Celie had a great passion for Shug Avery and finally after caring for her through her illness , Shug and Celie struck a companionship . |
| 8 | Maggie burst into tears at the sight of the house and the small familiar crowd waiting for her outside the wooden gate of the garden . |
| 9 | She saw Margaret waiting for her outside her house and she gave her a little wave . |
| 10 | Yet she was not surprised to find him waiting for her outside the church , apparently absorbed in the design of an iron pineapple on the railings . |
| 11 | Why were some men waiting for her on the night she died ? |
| 12 | By a coincidence the letter had been waiting for her on her dressing-table when she had got in from the pictures the previous night , just after she had been thinking and talking of Hilda . |
| 13 | At some unconscious level that was exactly what she had expected six months earlier — to step off the plane and see the man of her dreams waiting for her on the tarmac . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm a copywriter at Grantham and Marsh — a top London advertising agency , ’ she responded coolly , finding it unnecessary to add that , because of the recession at present affecting the advertising world generally , her job might not be waiting for her on her return ! |
| 15 | Jonadab was waiting for her at the stair bottom . |
| 16 | Uncle Alfred was waiting for her at the entrance to the nest when she arrived . |
| 17 | The manager was waiting for her at the desk , deftly fidgeting with a half-stuffed peregrine falcon . |
| 18 | For all she knew , Molassi could be waiting for her at the bottom , his knife drawn , standing over the body of Rodomonte . |
| 19 | She was floating along the aisle of a dimly lit church , the only reality the beautiful white dress she was wearing and the man waiting for her at the altar , and even he was shrouded in a mist , preventing her from seeing his face . |
| 20 | There was a letter from George Langley , from Cambridge , waiting for her at Bishopstow but somehow it did not interest her , she could hardly be bothered to open it . |
| 21 | Luke was waiting for her at the bottom of the staircase , fifteen minutes later , looking — surprise , surprise ! — extremely impatient . |
| 22 | Fernando was waiting for her at the kerbside , leaning against his white convertible Mercedes . |
| 23 | They were already waiting for her at the field , but she had no objection to being hustled aboard . |
| 24 | Her father was in the anteroom , waiting for her with a dour face and uneasy eyes , but so closely attended by page and chamberlain that barely a word beyond her submissive greeting and his mumbled acknowledgement , phrased as a blessing but uttered like a malediction , was able to pass between them . |
| 25 | Daak was waiting for her beyond the next upright . |
| 26 | Her contact had n't said whether Haminh lived alone or not , and without definite information Fox was not about to risk waiting for her inside her room . |
| 27 | Waiting for her beneath the tree , with all the other equipment she might need , packed in a box . |
| 28 | She went upstairs and slung her bikini bottoms in a bag , along with her suntan oil and a towel , and ran downstairs , to find him waiting for her by the front door . |
| 29 | The photographer would be waiting for her by the exhibition stand in twenty minutes or so . |
| 30 | He was waiting for her in the lounge . |