Example sentences of "[conj] she [verb] [pron] 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 | Sometimes , although she chided herself for the thought , it seemed as if in trying to be unselfish and giving him what he wanted , she had allowed herself to be turned into a sacrifice . |
| 3 | As a single woman living with her uncle , the negligent landlord Mr Brooke , Dorothea has good reason to concern herself with cottages , although she intends them for the estate of the obliging Sir James , having presumably abandoned her uncle as a hopeless case . |
| 4 | Ellen was sure now that she had him for her own and most likely thought it a fair return for her investment of time and trouble . |
| 5 | That she does it for the money , which symbolises affection , emotional security and personal achievement . |
| 6 | ‘ They do say , ’ said Caspar thrillingly , ‘ that she pursued him for positively centuries , until he gave in , purely to get her out of his way . |
| 7 | I do n't think that she wants anything for it |
| 8 | He blushed to think of how shamelessly he 'd paraded himself when he 'd had Judith on his arm ; how he 'd joked that she loved him for his cleanliness , and for his taste in bidets . |
| 9 | Miss Clapp sees the excuse notes and she takes me for English . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | And she knew it for a fact when he murmured smoothly , ‘ I think I might find it agreeable . ’ |
| 12 | Now she gets them and she sells them for ten quid . |
| 13 | The woman was in her early forties and she asked me for £5 straight away . |
| 14 | She came over to me one night and she asked me for a lift . |
| 15 | And she asked me for the fifty P . |
| 16 | It was as painful as hell , and she despised herself for even caring what he had thought of Mark 's abilities , but for some reason she desperately needed to know . |
| 17 | Over and over he told himself : ‘ You failed her , and she hates you for it . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ Mrs Morey says I 've got beautiful hair and she brushes it for me . ’ |
| 20 | Security said they 'd send someone over right away , and she busied herself for the next few minutes with the half-dozen patients in the waiting area . |
| 21 | For one thing , she discovered that her conscience was at fault over Jewish persecution and she blamed herself for not coming out against such cruelty earlier . |
| 22 | She blamed herself for the way Tina was , though she did not know what she had done wrong , and she blamed herself for not trying harder to keep Tina in her house when she wanted to go off to Jarvis Stringer 's . |
| 23 | It moved slowly and she cursed herself for having forgotten her gloves and scarf . |
| 24 | It sounded ridiculously lame and she cursed herself for sounding so weak and ineffectual , but miraculously he seemed not to notice . |
| 25 | ‘ So it was Alain all the time , and she took him for me , ’ mused Dieter . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Mm , well Ann and she got it for thirty two and a half ! |
| 28 | ‘ It 's awfully wild , ’ she said , ‘ but you are going the right way ’ — she was proceeding east and going into the storm at the time — and she thanked me for opening the gate . |
| 29 | I went to Hemel Hempstead er a school called in Hemel Hempstead that was only from the August till December when I left school and then the erm then the Headmistress , cos we had a Headmistress there cos it was a mixed school , and she recommended me for this here errand boy 's job , his name was . |
| 30 | You said that in our newsletter , because our checkout manager said that she 's found life extremely difficult with all the changes of shifts , and that in her department they have lots of problems , so she 's got like a pro forma checkout news , and she asks them for things that go into this , that they , you know , that they want bringing up , and specific things that they 're having difficulty with . |