Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [vb pp] she for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Samson had clouted her for burning it — the beginning of a long bad day . |
| 2 | Precisely because Stars & Stripes can not match the speed of Kanza and America , Conner 's designers have optimised her for a narrow light air band of 5–8 knots . |
| 3 | Jane believes that her mother was often stressed to the point of despair at this time , ‘ … that she suffered all the torments and tribulations of every working mother without anything in her background , education or make-up having prepared her for such an emotional wrenching . ’ |
| 4 | She saw him pick up the sweater her parents had bought her for her birthday , then carelessly throw it to one side . |
| 5 | Roirbak had mistaken her for another boy : a skinny , awkward creature , but pretty in her own way , he conceded . |
| 6 | ‘ This business has knocked her for six . ’ |
| 7 | But a stray recollection of a golliwog Maurice had given her for her fifth birthday undid the effect in an instant and she reached Swans ' Meadow with her eyes red and face blotchy from tears , only to find to her surprise that Ursula was in a similar condition . |
| 8 | She could find only her chequebook and the small , leather-bound directory Jasper had given her for Christmas and into which , to gratify the child , she had painstakingly copied the addresses and phone numbers of friends accumulated throughout a lifetime . |
| 9 | She took one last look at herself in the wardrobe mirror before she pulled on the sheepskin that her father had bought her for Christmas . |
| 10 | She had the money Mrs Dallam had paid her for the petticoats and chemises . |
| 11 | The local people had stoned her for wearing trousers in the street and Fernando had ruefully added how things had changed since then — now anything went in Majorca . |
| 12 | The , the Post Office , the erm erm telephone people have charged her for the erm a new phone when it 's , and it 's her o her own phone ! |
| 13 | I can not believe so many people have attacked her for petty reasons , like here lack of smiling . |
| 14 | Ms Nelson has praised her for being brave enough to take the case . |
| 15 | On the grounds that James IV 's will had nominated her for the regency only if she remained a widow , the Scottish Estates sent for the Duke of Albany , descendant of that Stewart who had plagued James III . |
| 16 | Nothing in her life had prepared her for this wanton fire , burning and aching inside her . |
| 17 | Delia had taken her for a walk in the park and Mrs Miniver — always an inquisitive ‘ person ’ by nature — had squeezed through railings alongside the river and promptly slid down the bank into the water . |
| 18 | But coming from a theatrical background has prepared her for the highs and lows of an actor 's life . |
| 19 | She rose , tripping round the table as if Benjamin had asked her for a dance . |
| 20 | But she did make two purchases from the hat and the dress departments with the money which J. D. O'Conner had given her for the two articles which she had written for him . |
| 21 | She hurried on to Horsfall Woods , stopping only at a sweetshop to buy a raspberry lollipop with the threepence Rosalind had given her for taking the letter . |
| 22 | The momentary weakness had bothered her for weeks afterwards as she worried as to whether she had lost her professionalism along with the opportunity to grill Hugo Varna over the truth about his relationship — and Paula 's — with the man who had died as he lived in a blaze of publicity . |
| 23 | Dana had not appeared for the promised fitting or for the rehearsal , excusing herself at the last minute because Roman had wanted her for alterations to one of the outfits she was to wear . |
| 24 | And when , after lunch , she came downstairs in her new outfit , bought from Selfridge 's last week with the money which J. D. O'Connor had paid her for her articles , and with her next two articles in her bag , ready to be handed in to the great man himself before she returned to the rectory to pick up Rose Bailey , whose time off did not begin until four-thirty , both Dr Neil and Matey thought that she looked enchanting . |
| 25 | They had given their only child the benefit of the doubt , but Paige had known , and Lori had hated her for knowing — and for not telling tales . |
| 26 | The pause had steadied her for a while but then it enabled the gnawing to chew on her once more . |
| 27 | Premonitions have fascinated her for several years . |
| 28 | A GRATEFUL reader who would like to thank her daughter for the surprise of a lifetime has nominated her for this week 's bouquet . |
| 29 | She pushed it back , and wiped the same hand on the Beatrix Potter apron Harriet had made her for her birthday . |
| 30 | She was wearing the huge red skirt she had made out of some curtains someone had sent to the jumble , and a black polo-necked jersey , and she had tied her hair up with the Indian scarf Luke had given her for Christmas . |