Example sentences of "[vb pp] for she [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Russian into business.Market stalls might not hold that much interest for the average Briton , but for Ekaterina Likhoda from Nizhni Tagil in the Russian Urals , ( see below , far right with South Wales Society president Paul Marshall — also pictured on the far left are Ekaterina 's interpreter , Olga Lewis , and Michelle Thomson , owner of the fruit stall ) it was all part of an unusual business-study trip arranged for her by the Institute 's General Practitioner Board . |
| 2 | That question was decided for her in a most terrible way . |
| 3 | The Queen 's speech at the opening of parliament is of course written for her by the government of the day . |
| 4 | Another is a concerto written for her by the British composer Derek Bourgeois . |
| 5 | Laura wore a long , grey satin dress with a big bow which was especially made for her in a more girlish style than she normally allowed herself . |
| 6 | For a start , Britain has to an extent been forced by the rules and practices of the EEC artificially to divert her exporting efforts to Europe and away from where they may have been more beneficially employed for her in the rest of the world . |
| 7 | She had changed into some clothes brought for her by a clerk who had been sent out with a handful of roubles to a nearby shop . |
| 8 | To symbolise her new life , her new role defined for her by the male rule-makers of society , a girl may even be given a new name on marriage . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She 's only been here two weekends , and none of us had worked for her in the past … |
| 11 | While I made sure the fire was safe she drank a sort of gruel which her home help had left for her in a Thermos . |
| 12 | An old lady descends from the black branches of the fire escape every morning and wearily gathers it all up and clambers home with it in paper bags : the food left for her by the birds . |
| 13 | The Diggorys were long abed , and Hector shut up in her little room , but candles had been left for her by the front door . |
| 14 | It had already dawned on the girl that , from this moment on , she was on her own , and that there was nobody to stand between her and whatever might be devised for her in the future . |
| 15 | She arranged her armful of books on the shelf Thérèse had cleared for her in the corner above the camp-bed . |
| 16 | In the small , square grave-yard , tangled with bramble and escalonia and overgrown with rank grass and nettles , a hole was dug for her among the bones of former generations ; bones of old women and men scarcely yet forgotten were turned up to make a place for her among them . |
| 17 | He had waited for her in the forests that fringed Tara , his mind filled with light and hope , his body more fiercely aware than ever it had been in his entire life . |
| 18 | The pictures Mark had created for her of the Nuremberg trials figured in her dreams and so did the bomb sites of war-torn London . |
| 19 | Lou went along with him for every show , with a place always reserved for her in the front row . |
| 20 | That was doubly endorsed for her as a feeling of nausea entered the fray of ragged nerves , and she realised that she was fifteen minutes early . |
| 21 | It was about two-thirty , however , when she had need to go for a file which Jimmy would , had he been there , have fetched for her in no time . |