Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] she for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kevin : Well , I 'd jist got my Giro , So I asked her for a Biro — If she |
| 2 | She said : ‘ I met her for the first time this week . ’ |
| 3 | Someone interviewed her for an Italian magazine — they 're doing a piece about her family , or so she says . |
| 4 | I interviewed her for a nature programme . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | As we left I thanked her for the ‘ nice tea ’ and off we went . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In fact I knew her for a tough-minded young woman with feminist leanings and rather more interest in student politics than would be helpful in her academic work . |
| 10 | A few days after the Argentinian surrender , I saw her for a meeting on health service pay . |
| 11 | No , no , I said to Richard is , is , Debbie not feeling well enough to come here , no I took her for a little ride round the . |
| 12 | … nothing prepared her for the angry letter she received from the Duke of Edinburgh soon afterwards . |
| 13 | Fortunately my mother was able to return to teaching and to complete the final two or three years which qualified her for a pension of her own . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | And as your career prospects have changed so dramatically in just a year , I 'd say your girlfriend was probably justified in feeling you left her for no good reason . |
| 16 | She would remind Froggy of it the next time he ragged her for a noodle . |
| 17 | Actress Robin Givens gave the man a bloody nose after he mistook her for a hooker while she was filming in Chicago . |
| 18 | When he failed to persuade her to cancel it , he asked her for a date — and romance blossomed . |
| 19 | ‘ What 's — the matter this morning ? ’ she said , in the voice she had used when he asked her for an off-games note . |
| 20 | His eyes were ice-bright , and pierced her like twin blades as he regarded her for a long moment . |
| 21 | The blue eyes narrowed as he regarded her for a moment . |
| 22 | He regarded her for a moment as though considering what she 'd told him . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Then he ignored her for the rest of the evening . |
| 25 | He surveyed her for a moment and then switched on , as though it had been a light , the very considerable charm of his smile . |
| 26 | He studied her for a moment . |
| 27 | He studied her for a moment , noting how she had aged . |
| 28 | He studied her for a moment , and she took in his steel-grey , twill-weave trousers and ivory shirt of raw silk . |
| 29 | Frowning , he studied her for a moment , then , with an impatient curse , yanked the ribbon away and unwound her braid . |
| 30 | He studied her for a long time , then reached out and touched a wet strand of her hair . |