Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] she for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think that often people did n't realise how tired and desperate they were until they 'd sat with her for a while . |
| 2 | Dierdriu had looked at her for a long moment . |
| 3 | He came from Cambridge , and I have n't heard of her for a number of years . |
| 4 | Iskandara had felt behind her for a chair back and now stood gripping it , her free hand clenched about the head of her stick . |
| 5 | Neither was she too happy about the epithet ‘ min skat ’ , which he 'd applied to her for the second time that day . |
| 6 | Yet Mrs Thatcher 's unassailable , inaccessible image was explicitly fashioned by her for the media . |
| 7 | Snappy bounded after her for a few yards , then scampered away to follow his mistress . |
| 8 | It was all right for Piers : he had played with her for the hell of it , while making no bones about telling her that she was little more than a convenient body . |
| 9 | Eva already had the uniforms she had brought with her for the youth congress . |
| 10 | In fact , she did not realise she was to have the honour conferred on her for a few days after the letter arrived . |
| 11 | The county court judge gave judgment for the mother in an action brought by her for the £1 per week based upon the father 's undertaking . |
| 12 | He should have remained with her for the hunting , devil take it , instead of going to his friend Woolacombe ! |
| 13 | His hands tightened on her for an instant , and then he let her go . |
| 14 | Oh yes , one of the , one of the surprises of this was discovering that in fact one of the people who knew Florence Kelly and indeed worked for her for a while , and who herself set up a minimum wage board in Washington , in the District of Columbia , is indeed still alive , and has very powerful memories of , of both the people and the activities of the movement . |
| 15 | The blue eyes bored into her for a long moment , and she fought the urge to look away from his coldly penetrating look . |
| 16 | Seeing that my daughter Anna has not availed herself of my advice touching the objectionable practice of going about with her arms bare to the elbows , my will is that , should she continue after my death this violation of the modesty of her sex , all goods , chattels , moneys , land , and other that I have devised to her for the maintenance of her future life shall pass to the oldest of the sons of my sister Caroline . |
| 17 | She clung to him while he held himself hard and poised over her for a moment , and then he parted her qivering thighs , slipping himself high inside her as naturally as a silver shoehorn easing on a silk slipper . |
| 18 | Since nothing seemed to be required of her for the present , Robbie thought , it would do no harm to lean back , just for a moment , and allow her heavy eyelids to have their own way . |
| 19 | Faye could not paint or draw while lying in bed , but in the mornings Belinda usually read to her for an hour while she rested her eyes , then left her alone for the remainder of the morning to rest or scribble ideas for future painting projects . |
| 20 | Unusually , no blame is attached to her for the outcome . |