Example sentences of "[vb pp] she for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Progress was painfully slow ; I had owned her for a year before she wagged her tail at me . |
| 2 | After visiting Queen 's the man took her for a walk near Twickenham Bridge where he attacked her . |
| 3 | Have n't seen her for a couple of month , have you ? |
| 4 | she kept in touch with them for some time but er , I 've not seen her for a year so , I would n't know . |
| 5 | He had not seen her for a while and he was pretty sure she had committed suicide . |
| 6 | Have n't seen her for a while . |
| 7 | He went up , and it 's first time he 'd seen her for a while and she said something about , oh he was supposed to have something but he got to hear this well it 's got nothing to do with all the others . |
| 8 | No , he had n't seen her for a week before that weekend ; he had missed her — this with a baleful glance towards the door — and had indeed got as far as ringing her up on the Saturday morning , hoping she would come up for Sunday , but had got no answer from her flat . |
| 9 | ‘ Nobody 's seen her for a week , and she 's not taken any of her stuff . ’ |
| 10 | I had bought her for a song , then spent a fortune restoring her and , when my term of service expired and I could afford to become the gypsy-sailor I had always wanted to be , I left the Marines and made Masquerade my new home . |
| 11 | By 1991 she was practically housebound and doctors first assessed her for a heart and lung transplant . |
| 12 | Some years later , Hellen and I met her again in Hong Kong , where the impresario , Harry Odell , had brought her for a concert . |
| 13 | His deep eyes regarded her for a moment , then he looked at Rory . |
| 14 | ( There is a constant flow of Micks visiting our affiliated Royal Navy ship , the destroyer HMS Boxer ; some of Support Company had just joined her for a Channel cruise . ) |
| 15 | With an effort she walked across the room to Jerry , who had so often asked her for a date and who , given any encouragement , would have been a frequent visitor to Blue Ash Farm . |
| 16 | She rose , tripping round the table as if Benjamin had asked her for a dance . |
| 17 | The pause had steadied her for a while but then it enabled the gnawing to chew on her once more . |
| 18 | The dark eyes fixed her for a moment . |
| 19 | He had begged her for a doctor . |
| 20 | Delia had taken her for a walk in the park and Mrs Miniver — always an inquisitive ‘ person ’ by nature — had squeezed through railings alongside the river and promptly slid down the bank into the water . |
| 21 | To make his point , he had taken her for a burger , nothing more , and defied her to come on too strong about it . |
| 22 | Although he had only caught a glimpse of her blonde head above the milling crowds on the platform , he had n't even briefly mistaken her for a German or Scandinavian . |