Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She goes for the ones who erm think she , they can protect her , but when it comes to the crunch she 'd have to be the one that protects them . |
| 2 | here at the weaving , oh and she 's huge , and oh she goes for the men , |
| 3 | Lili , needless to remark , is unhappy : when she is in the heat of the Nile she longs for the mists of England , and vice versa . |
| 4 | She signs for the parcel . |
| 5 | It still sleeps with its mother in the rudimentary nest she builds for the night but practises building nests for itself . |
| 6 | ‘ Basically , we are just much more tolerant than men , ’ says Judith Jackson , one of the tiny minority of female motoring correspondents — she writes for The Guardian and Homes & Gardens . |
| 7 | She stands for the civilization of the South , of the Midi , the home of the troubadours , against the sterner , rougher , cruder world of the North , represented , in this image , by her husband , the King of the North Wind , whose authority she is subtly undermining and against whom she will soon break out in open rebellion . |
| 8 | As she searches for the killer of a diamond merchant , Melanie falls for the rabbi 's son , played by flashing-eyed newcomer Eric Thal . |
| 9 | But she heads for the kitchen , just the same . |
| 10 | THOROUGHLY MODEST MRS : Fergie covers up as she heads for the pool |
| 11 | A little light patter while she looks for the file . |
| 12 | She starts for the door . |
| 13 | And she reaches for the knife . |
| 14 | She reaches for the shelf next to the bed . |
| 15 | The sudden perception of the latter fact shatters her tenuous control ; she concentrates for the moment on the former , blurting : |
| 16 | Her next test will be in the UK championships in Sheffield on June 6 as she prepares for the defence of her English Schools title at Hull on July 10/11 . |
| 17 | ‘ Then she shoots them in afterwards , ’ said Lili , ‘ with a special little pistol she keeps for the purpose . ’ |
| 18 | She fears for the future of the river 's wildlife . |
| 19 | His wife 'll be back then which is just as well — she cleans for the factor 's wife over at ‘ Il Calltuccio ’ in the mornings . |
| 20 | Meg Dennison — she housekeeps for the Reverend and Mrs Copley at the Old Rectory — thinks we ought to do more for them but it 's difficult to see precisely what . |
| 21 | I chat with her while she waits for the tub to fill . |
| 22 | Our Agent advises that we indicate that £25,000 is the lowest acceptable offer and that she pays for the alteration . |
| 23 | Her conscious understanding of how she was using language is clear from the explanations she gives for the expressions she uses in the poem : ( on line 2 ) " She lived outside in the open , so the air was like her house " ; ( on line 5 " the streets were like a giant shop where she could pick and choose out of bins and gutters " ; ( on line 8 ) " this means she was close to nature and she felt like the yew was her mother " . |
| 24 | and er I said to her do you miss London ? , and she said well she does for the theatre and that because they were only a short tube ride away from the West from the West End theatre 's and she said there 's more on in Poole here than there is in Bournemouth in terms of plays and |
| 25 | She argues for the view that there is such a thing as a ‘ feminist perspective ’ and criticises feminist theorists ( de Beauvoir , Millett , Firestone and Reed ) who depend too heavily on existing ( male ) theories . |
| 26 | The silver water shatters under her feet , the child bounces as he rides on her breast , and she no longer hears Sycorax , only the pulse of the sea as it breaks in frills on the smooth and shiny sand , the splash of her stride and the drumming of her heart as she makes for the forest to the north , her back turned to the bay where the English ship rides at anchor , where the sea battle will take place . |
| 27 | She caretakes for the Lodge — ‘ a chew owns it ’ — and was amazed , as was I , by the growth that obscured the erstwhile Inn . |
| 28 | She runs for the phone . |
| 29 | Though she works for the SSD , she is unusually placed in the health authority 's child health department . |
| 30 | This is shown by the judgment of Lord Greene in Saltman where he said : " If two parties make a contract under which one of them obtains for the purpose of the contract or in connection with it some confidential matter , even though the contract is silent on the matter of confidence the law will imply an obligation to treat that confidential matter in a confidential way as one of the implied terms of the contract ; but the obligation of confidence is not limited to cases where the parties are in a contractual relationship " . |