Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] she for a " in BNC.
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1 | Maybe you can get somebody to move in with her for a couple of days . |
2 | In the end , the big woman with the cherries in her hat had dragged the now screaming child from his mother 's arms , pulling poor Edith along with her for a few steps until she had dropped sobbing on to the linoleum . |
3 | She had her key ready and he looked down at her for a minute . |
4 | As they stood patiently in a doorway waiting for the column to pass , Catherine turned to say something to McLeish and he looked down at her for a long moment . |
5 | He just stood looking down at her for a moment , his eyes still pleading , and then abruptly he turned and picked up the tray and carried it into the kitchen for her . |
6 | He stared down at her for a long moment , his mouth very close to her own . |
7 | Nathan looked down at her for a moment , then inclined his head , the movement brief and dismissive . |
8 | He stared down at her for a moment , then walked across to the window and began staring outside instead . |
9 | He gazed down at her for a long moment , then shook his head in disbelief . |
10 | He stared down at her for a few seconds , almost as if searching for some clue hidden in her expression . |
11 | He gazed down at her for a long moment , studying her features as if trying to re-gather his thoughts . |
12 | And then , almost as if he had received some secret signal , he gave a slight nod of his head , grinning sardonically down at her for a moment before rolling off her body and gathering one of the twins up in his arms . |
13 | And when she jumped up again , the chair sort of stuck to the seat of those awful green breeches she wears and came up with her for a few seconds until the thick syrup slowly came unstuck . |
14 | I looked up at her for a moment . |
15 | ( At this point , Meursault looked up at her for a moment , seemed to appraise her , then back down to his hands , and commented , ‘ With such good French , there 's a man in the story . ’ |
16 | Travis frowned up at her for a second , then took a quick look around and nodded . |
17 | Nathan gazed fixedly at her for a moment with an expression she could n't fathom , then disappeared again . |
18 | It would tick over perfectly without her for a few weeks . |
19 | Henry lowered himself into the driver 's seat and stood looking out at her for a moment . |
20 | When she does so , you or another relative could suggest staying there with her for a day or two until she is ready to face the loneliness she has to learn to live with . |
21 | Loc stared hard at her for a moment then glanced out across the clearing again , remembering suddenly the expression he 'd seen a few minutes before on the Frenchman 's face . |
22 | He looked hard at her for a moment , and she tensed . |