Example sentences of "[conj] she [vb past] it for " in BNC.
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| 1 | She put the sheet of paper in an envelope , addressed it clearly , added the word ‘ Urgent ’ and carried it down to the office , where she left it for collection and received instead the original and the photostats of her article . |
| 2 | Short of battering him on the head with a blunt instrument — the thought held immense appeal , and she savoured it for a long moment , before reluctantly putting it on hold — she could n't come up with any way out of the present situation . |
| 3 | And she knew it for a fact when he murmured smoothly , ‘ I think I might find it agreeable . ’ |
| 4 | As with the girl who died earlier in the year , this beaker of solution was in her bedroom and she mistook it for a bedtime drink . |
| 5 | When she began to unbutton his shirt he stood , paralysed , staring at the slack flesh round her stomach , he shivered and she took it for excitement ; he had dreamed about this , waiting for the moment when he would instinctively know what to do , would take control , but instead she was rubbing against him with a cool professionalism that unnerved him . |
| 6 | Mm , well Ann and she got it for thirty two and a half ! |
| 7 | To her , the building was endlessly exciting , and she liked it for all the reasons that most people would specify as particular causes for dislike . |
| 8 | Yeah but on the yeah but I mean if she sold it for thirty two she 'd still owe them nine thousand would n't she ? |
| 9 | The photo was in there , too , but she left it for the time being . |
| 10 | I used to go and fetch the , the butter from do n't bring margarine my father used to say we put better stuff on our machines so er I used to go to for my father kept foul , I used to fetch a peck of , bushel of this and a bushel of , you know all the various things that , bran and stuff for the foul yes , yes and I believe a lady , she has , she 's only recently died and but she kept it for a long long while Elsie her name was . |
| 11 | She had not yet even recognised what it was , but she knew it for better worth than she had ever yet been given . |
| 12 | Ruth saw at once that her grandfather was not in the room , but she took it for granted that by some miracle he had improved enough to get upstairs and was resting in bed . |
| 13 | ’ But she bought it for me and it 's brilliant . |
| 14 | In fact , as she considered it for the first time , she wondered how any of them had survived to tell the tale . |