Example sentences of "[be] [verb] for she [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This had been prepared for her by Dolores , or one of the maids . |
| 2 | We have been looking for her for three weeks . |
| 3 | Those fantasies that had protected her from real life , that beautiful , unpolluted world of the Lock with its seals and its childhood memories of her father and that other glossy , television world that she imagined people like Simon inhabited , had been ruined for her for ever . |
| 4 | Most days Jo left the house with her breasts strapped into a brassiere that had been tailored for her by her mother 's corsetière , two thick white cotton cones attached to a four-inch band , meagrely edged with broderie anglaise . |
| 5 | It appears that , following her leaving Ontario , the lawyers who had been acting for her in Ontario were removed from the record . |
| 6 | By a coincidence the letter had been waiting for her on her dressing-table when she had got in from the pictures the previous night , just after she had been thinking and talking of Hilda . |
| 7 | A year later there was a sensation in the newspapers , when an EMI employee revealed that the ageing Kirsten Flagstad 's top Cs in the love duet in Act II had been sung for her by Elisabeth Schwarzkopf . |
| 8 | They 'll let me in. — I 've been doing for her for years . ’ |
| 9 | If she needs nursing care , arrangements can sometimes be made for her to be admitted for a few weeks to the local hospital on medical recommendation . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm a copywriter at Grantham and Marsh — a top London advertising agency , ’ she responded coolly , finding it unnecessary to add that , because of the recession at present affecting the advertising world generally , her job might not be waiting for her on her return ! |
| 11 | For all she knew , Molassi could be waiting for her at the bottom , his knife drawn , standing over the body of Rodomonte . |
| 12 | The photographer would be waiting for her by the exhibition stand in twenty minutes or so . |
| 13 | should be fighting for her on this not giving way |
| 14 | It had already dawned on the girl that , from this moment on , she was on her own , and that there was nobody to stand between her and whatever might be devised for her in the future . |
| 15 | The Diggorys were long abed , and Hector shut up in her little room , but candles had been left for her by the front door . |
| 16 | Last night prayers were said for her at Watton Methodist Church where her aunt is a member of the congregation . |
| 17 | they were waiting for her in the old house : Louise , her mother , her aunt Bella and her grandmother , Irena . |
| 18 | All the same she was mortified to discover on returning much later to the apartment that the detested clothes were waiting for her in her room . |
| 19 | Realizing that not only Mrs Whittaker , but twelve newly arrived first-year students , were waiting for her in expectant silence , she pulled herself together . |
| 20 | They were waiting for her in Miami , if she ever got back there . |
| 21 | She was sometimes referred to as Trivia and offerings of black lambs , honey and new-born puppies were left for her at crossroads . |
| 22 | I 've phoned the doctor , and he 's arranged for her to be admitted to hospital for observation , or whatever they do . |
| 23 | At the same time , I was refusing for her to be brought to the prison because although I wanted to see her more than anything , I was damn sure she was n't going to come to prison and see me . |
| 24 | That question was decided for her in a most terrible way . |
| 25 | FIRST BLOOM DIANA 'S latest outing in the original dress , a favourite which was made for her in 1988 . |
| 26 | Daak was waiting for her beyond the next upright . |
| 27 | Jonadab was waiting for her at the stair bottom . |
| 28 | Uncle Alfred was waiting for her at the entrance to the nest when she arrived . |
| 29 | The manager was waiting for her at the desk , deftly fidgeting with a half-stuffed peregrine falcon . |
| 30 | Luke was waiting for her at the bottom of the staircase , fifteen minutes later , looking — surprise , surprise ! — extremely impatient . |