Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] she for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Thasos , under siege by Kimon , appealed to her for help , she offered ‘ secretly ’ ( but the offer was evidently everybody 's secret at Athens ) to invade Attica and thereby to relieve Thasos indirectly : Thuc. i. 101 . |
| 2 | Here she would receive such visitors as happened to be staying in the house , and subsequently reverential visitors , who appealed to her for aid or sympathy . |
| 3 | Everyone came to her for advice , as if she did not have enough of her own problems to solve . |
| 4 | He was very upset ; and still , after five years , he turned to her for comfort and advice ; still like a child , her child . |
| 5 | She glanced at her for signs of irony and saw none . |
| 6 | What does she feel about the media mayhem that whirled round her for months last year ? |
| 7 | The result was that sometimes members of the family or others who went to her for help came away empty-handed , however great their needs or deserts might be ; Addy never used need as a yardstick But on the other side of the medal were the occasions , such as this one , when she volunteered something you 'd never have dreamed of asking for , and you were free to accept it because you knew she 'd be disappointed , not relieved , if you refused . |
| 8 | Those which her husband offered to her for signature she signed without question ; those offered by others she would ask for the document to be explained . |
| 9 | Neva 's heart nearly burst within her for pride and joy at being chosen by such a noble knight . |
| 10 | I thought she were never gon na , I said to her for goodness sake , drink it ! |
| 11 | I got up out the chair and er went out the front door and I said to her for God 's sake it 's Sunday ! |
| 12 | Her reminiscences were a delight to Constance and the things she learned from her friend 's rambling monologues stayed with her for life . |