Example sentences of "[noun] she [vb past] [pers pn] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nigel is by no means the fool she took him for . |
| 2 | I was not proposing to ask her about her relationship , or lack of it , with Edward VIII and Mrs Simpson , or to what degree she blamed them for the unexpected and , at the time , unwelcome change in her life . |
| 3 | in the endland It was too far to go every day , so I went for the week , came home to the flat at weekends , She had squash , groundnuts , rows of beans on nylon lines She had me for the weeding . |
| 4 | Mary had a metal cow she bought it for a tanner and every morning just at six she milked it with a |
| 5 | She had always pitied Kathleen and never liked Cormac , who had not tried to protect his sister , but now as she lay awake at night she saw him for what he was : a pitiable victim of his mother 's obsession . |
| 6 | Feeling irritable and out of sorts , she took her tea into the workroom , hoping her carvings might be as therapeutic to her as to the people she carved them for . |
| 7 | to do Aladdin so when she thought she 'd do it this year she wanted me for Aladdin . |
| 8 | He spoke bitterly of the way she left him for another man , a student , when she was 16 then humiliated him by giving intimate details of their affair to the press . |
| 9 | He likes his secrets and was impressed by his mother for the way she kept hers for years , that he was not her son . |
| 10 | On Saturday mornings she took them for riding lessons , waited and took them back , while Norm went out to play golf . |
| 11 | Years later , she acknowledged the debt she owed him for those early lessons in self-determination . |