Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] she for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hagans said he 'd known her for two years and they 'd met by appointment . |
| 2 | He 'd done it again , she realised in amazement — with just a few choice words he 'd knocked her for six . |
| 3 | Eventually , Reid said , ‘ All Susan ever said about her father was that he was a grade-A shit who 'd ignored her for most of her life and thought money was a good substitute for love . |
| 4 | He had treated her for several months using her husband as an interpreter — as though her husband were an objective witness to her depression . |
| 5 | For Small , getting out the magazine that had absorbed her for two years was the commitment , not this eccentric lurch into the unknown . |
| 6 | Shocking as the assault had been , it had prepared her for another encounter — an encounter with a youth of her own age , bewildered and uneasy , one called to high estate who found himself of a sudden alone on the edge of an abyss … |
| 7 | Nothing in Australian society nor in the easy commerce between don and undergraduate which she had witnessed and occasionally shared with Michael at Cambridge , had prepared her for this . |
| 8 | Nothing in her life had prepared her for this wanton fire , burning and aching inside her . |
| 9 | She had dreamt of this moment , fantasised it in her mind so many lonely dark nights , and now it was happening and nothing had prepared her for this self-destruction . |
| 10 | Before he had become involved with Sien he had used her for some time as a model . |
| 11 | But there was no denying that today his wife was better than he had known her for many many months . |
| 12 | Roirbak had mistaken her for another boy : a skinny , awkward creature , but pretty in her own way , he conceded . |
| 13 | She also warned Quinn of the abrasive Kevin Brown , who had chosen her for this mission and had established himself in London with a team of eight to ‘ keep an eye on things ’ . |