Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] she for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She said : ‘ I met her for the first time this week . ’ |
| 2 | I paid her for the call , and stayed chatting for a while , answering her queries about the cottage and then telling her of my brother 's expected arrival , and the possibility that he might telephone with a message . |
| 3 | I kissed her for the last time as she lay in her hospital bed : the bedclothes were crisp and undisturbed , and she looked very clean , just as she would have wanted to ; and very small , because she was so old , and having started life none too big had ended up , at the age of ninety-one , not much bigger than a child . |
| 4 | As we left I thanked her for the ‘ nice tea ’ and off we went . |
| 5 | I thanked her for the dance and Werewolf bowed deeply to her ‘ girlfriend ’ ( Oxnard , California ) , which made her day , as they say in those parts . |
| 6 | … nothing prepared her for the angry letter she received from the Duke of Edinburgh soon afterwards . |
| 7 | And the teachers who selected her for the post make it very clear that it was Emily 's ability not her sex that made her first choice . |
| 8 | Mutely he blessed her for the information and , after quickly slaking his appetite , he was drawn — as if he had no will of his own — to the pothouse , where he picked up Joanna , went out with her into the fields , and made love with a sweating savagery which seemed to satisfy even her and delivered him of a madness which had gathered like an abscess . |
| 9 | Then he ignored her for the rest of the evening . |
| 10 | He blamed her for the death of his sister . |
| 11 | His heart lurched as he saw her for the first time for nine years , now in her new role as a woman . |