Example sentences of "she [verb] [pron] for [art] " in BNC.

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1 Now , while Anna slept , she read it for the tenth time .
2 As with the girl who died earlier in the year , this beaker of solution was in her bedroom and she mistook it for a bedtime drink .
3 Short of battering him on the head with a blunt instrument — the thought held immense appeal , and she savoured it for a long moment , before reluctantly putting it on hold — she could n't come up with any way out of the present situation .
4 She came over to me one night and she asked me for a lift .
5 And she asked me for the fifty P .
6 Do I want this job so badly ? she asked herself for the hundredth time .
7 So what was wrong with her ? she asked herself for the hundredth time as she sat sipping a glass of wine in his apartment in the Barbican some weeks after they 'd first met .
8 I believed her on both counts , especially when she visited me for a weekend and gave me a bottle of ‘ Denim ’ aftershave which she had shoplifted from a Chemist in mid Wales .
9 She tried it for a week , and then , then went to live with the Americans , and said the food was too fattening .
10 She added something for the panel to remember her by — sheer seamed black tights with black and grey checked flat shoes and , on the lapel of her jacket , a blue glass antique brooch .
11 Security said they 'd send someone over right away , and she busied herself for the next few minutes with the half-dozen patients in the waiting area .
12 Relations between the Prime Minister and Nigel Lawson may still be strained ( she blames him for the present difficulties ) .
13 She blames him for the break-up of the coterie .
14 She done it for the burial club money .
15 To cover the fact that she had far too many feelings altogether , she ignored him for the first part of the morning .
16 They just were n't compatible , she told herself for the umpteenth time .
17 This is crazy , she told herself for the umpteenth time .
18 Managing the boat , he was in total command , and she admired him for the ease with which he wove between the countless busy craft , the pleasure boats , gondolas and the small and large ferries , his eyes constantly alert .
19 As a single woman living with her uncle , the negligent landlord Mr Brooke , Dorothea has good reason to concern herself with cottages , although she intends them for the estate of the obliging Sir James , having presumably abandoned her uncle as a hopeless case .
20 I was not proposing to ask her about her relationship , or lack of it , with Edward VIII and Mrs Simpson , or to what degree she blamed them for the unexpected and , at the time , unwelcome change in her life .
21 She blamed herself for the way Tina was , though she did not know what she had done wrong , and she blamed herself for not trying harder to keep Tina in her house when she wanted to go off to Jarvis Stringer 's .
22 ‘ I 'll be working like a Trojan for the next twelve weeks , ’ Lisa smiled back as she thanked him for the coffee .
23 She thanked me for the information — and then she left . ’
24 So , ‘ Goodnight , Ven , ’ she bade him for a third time , only this time she stretched up to him and touched her lips to his cheek .
25 They sued the well-known actress Constance Collier for the £16 9s 3d which they said she owed them for the flowers which her maid had ordered by telephone to be delivered to the Savoy Theatre .
26 Carolyn knew that he was angry with her , for some reason which she could n't fathom , and that the more she pressed him for an explanation the more he clammed up over it .
27 Please would she meet him for a long dinner on Friday — he would expect to hear from her tomorrow or the next day .
28 She strengthened herself for a fight .
29 He described a life so different from my own that I could not have imagined it — ‘ She loved me for the dangers I had passed , and I loved her , that she did pity them . ’
30 She watched him for a moment .
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