Example sentences of "[to-vb] she for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1989 , the wife of the " Yorkshire Ripper " was awarded £600,000 by a jury to compensate her for a false story in " Private Eye " , published eight years previously , to the effect that she had been prepared to sell her story to newspapers . |
| 2 | Some connection having been made in his mind , he began to rebuke her for a belief in the reality of Noah 's Ark , which he referred to sarcastically as the Myth of the Deluge . |
| 3 | ‘ I was wondering whether you 'd arranged to meet her for a talk — to break the news to her ? ’ |
| 4 | She wrote that she was dying of a fever , and asked him to visit her for the first and last time . |
| 5 | There were enough provisions here to feed her for a week — and in far more luxury than she would have dreamt of buying for herself . |
| 6 | She had not merely been a housekeeper but her qualities of efficiency , cheerfulness and gastronomic expertise seemed to fit her for the task of looking after this unusual pair . |
| 7 | No doubt about it , he meant to corner her for the evening . |
| 8 | ‘ He wanted to swop her for a guarantee that he would not be arrested ’ |
| 9 | By then she felt that she had seen enough paintings , churches , marble floors and medieval palaces to last her for a long time . |
| 10 | But for that old lady , I had been ordered to do her for the fire . |
| 11 | For this reason above all others she had come very close to declining Philip Swallow 's proposal to nominate her for the Shadow Scheme . |
| 12 | Lydia had barely set foot beyond the ashram in three years when Lorne turned up to kidnap her for a reconnaissance mission with him to Celebes island , eight hundred miles away to the north-east . |
| 13 | His eyes seemed to study her for a moment . |
| 14 | The policewoman decided to believe her for the moment . |
| 15 | I intended at first only to teach her needlework to qualify her for a genteel position , for you see she has a delicacy in her person that makes it a pity ever to put her to hard work , but she masters everything so fast that now I am desirous to have to divert and entertain me in my thoughtful hours . |
| 16 | Managers found it impossible to maintain discipline : if a girl found a man to keep her for a while , she would ‘ scarper ’ ( disappear ) . |
| 17 | Oh no , we 'll pay to keep her for a long time |
| 18 | And erm they were going to send her for an interview straight away . |
| 19 | It was lovely that you came , ’ and she took his hand and raised her mouth eagerly to his as he bent to kiss her for the first time . |
| 20 | In India in February , when Charles attempted to kiss her for the first time in public in four years , Diana defiantly turned away in a clear move to embarrass her husband . |
| 21 | The daughter no longer had to provide care but said ‘ I merely go to see her for a chat and the company nowadays ’ . |
| 22 | He would take frustrating and puzzling journeys on the serpentine British railways to see her for a snatched fraction of a weekend in a provincial rep . |
| 23 | Then her father and two brothers will be able to see her for the first time in seven months . |
| 24 | Then her father and two brothers will be able to see her for the first time in seven months . |
| 25 | She , Clarissa , was not looking forward to telephoning Lady Southdown , as she was bound to do , to thank her for a lovely evening . |
| 26 | She told him to tell Dora she 'd written to Auntie Flo to thank her for the cake . |
| 27 | Her husband , John Pennington , of Southport , Merseyside , was jailed for 15 years in June for hiring a hitman to kill her for the £300,000 insurance . |
| 28 | And when the bridal party came out into the church porch and stood blinking and smiling in the winter daylight , Sir Felix Lark , his wild eyes excessively unstable , was instantly at Linnet 's elbow , topping the suave invitations of Mr Adolphus Moon to meet his artistic friends with offers to mount her for the Far Flatley hunt . |
| 29 | This is not going to disappear overnight , it 's going to affect her for a long time , and she 's never going to catch up on the work that she 's missed over the last couple of months by having seven teachers in six weeks . |
| 30 | That ‘ little grey home in the west ’ idea was n't going to fool her for a minute ; it was easy to see that the man sitting next to her loved every minute of his fast-living , action-packed life . |