Example sentences of "she [verb] [pron] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She watched him for a moment , wishing she did n't feel so defensive every time he broached the subject of Arnie . |
| 32 | She watched him for a while , feeling superfluous . |
| 33 | She watched it for a while until the ball came rather close . |
| 34 | Aye I said , so she said the landlord 's never put it down so we thought he 'd have had it down by she come home cos Alison seen it and where they work and th and there 's a room there or something and she 'd asked the boss could she have it for the bathroom . |
| 35 | She examined it for a moment , then squeezed it between thumb and fingernail and dropped it on the floor . |
| 36 | If so can she borrow/beg/steal them for a class item ? ? ? |
| 37 | They could n't avoid being seen together and she braced herself for the blast from Georg and from her parents . |
| 38 | She needed it for the letter she was going to write in a minute to Nora . |
| 39 | And then , because she did n't want to be saying goodbye to him any sooner than she had to , she took him for a wander through the main part of the Hall to see how the preparations were going . |
| 40 | And then she quite confounded me by doing exactly what I advised , and I always thought she took me for a crank whose horse sense , if any , was a forced calm not to be heeded . |
| 41 | She took us for a walk with a soldier , |
| 42 | She knew it for a fact . |
| 43 | Harry Martin was behind all this , and , although she had n't a hope of proving it , she knew it for a fact . |
| 44 | And she knew it for a fact when he murmured smoothly , ‘ I think I might find it agreeable . ’ |
| 45 | She had chosen for herself the human equivalent of sackcloth and ashes , and she denounced herself for a masochist . |
| 46 | She saw them for the first time about half way through the second week . |
| 47 | She saw it for a second , then it went behind a wave , and came up again . |
| 48 | Sometimes , although she chided herself for the thought , it seemed as if in trying to be unselfish and giving him what he wanted , she had allowed herself to be turned into a sacrifice . |
| 49 | Instinctively her hand drew the sheet higher before she chided herself for the gesture . |
| 50 | I used to go and fetch the , the butter from do n't bring margarine my father used to say we put better stuff on our machines so er I used to go to for my father kept foul , I used to fetch a peck of , bushel of this and a bushel of , you know all the various things that , bran and stuff for the foul yes , yes and I believe a lady , she has , she 's only recently died and but she kept it for a long long while Elsie her name was . |
| 51 | She lifted her lip at me — I think she meant it for a smile . ’ |
| 52 | Mary had a metal cow she bought it for a tanner and every morning just at six she milked it with a |
| 53 | Prince Charles rang her every day , suggesting she join him for a walk or a barbecue . |
| 54 | She despised him for an affair that had begun and ended thirty years before . |
| 55 | ‘ Goodnight ! ’ she wished him for a fourth time , and went to her room feeling very much better about everything . |
| 56 | in the endland It was too far to go every day , so I went for the week , came home to the flat at weekends , She had squash , groundnuts , rows of beans on nylon lines She had me for the weeding . |
| 57 | After that she said nothing for a while , only sat watching me in a broody way . |
| 58 | She said nothing for a while . |
| 59 | She said nothing for a long time , then shook her head . |
| 60 | She said nothing for a moment , and looked down . |