Example sentences of "she [verb] for [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We feel Betty Willis may well be a record-breaker with the super-size socks she made for her super-size son-in-law whose super-loud voice gave him fifth place ( out of 100 contestants ) in the 1991 world championships for Town Criers . |
| 2 | Esther Clark moved to Tetbury , where she cared for her step-daughter and took an active interest in local charities . |
| 3 | In one situation , a younger daughter was being constantly criticized by her older sister for the way she cared for their mother . |
| 4 | She refused to let him touch her sexually , but she cared for his appearance , kept him active and stimulated , managed his beer consumption and dealt with all money matters . |
| 5 | Fabia asked , her wide green eyes looking into his dark ones as she sought for his understanding . |
| 6 | Then I paid the woman the five shillings she asked for her hospitality and went on my way . |
| 7 | She asked for her name not to be used because she wanted to protect her relationship with regular callers . |
| 8 | And she asked for their support over a difficult period . |
| 9 | cos they 're not X directory if we can get hold of the number , er so she 's going to say to her could she do it any quicker and I said well the woman said if she could do it any quicker she would ring me , she asked for me phone number . |
| 10 | She said he had agreed to do so but had driven off when she shouted for her father . |
| 11 | ‘ Only there is a young lady as lodges with me , who asks me every day what Mrs Browning writes and is eager to know for she announces she lives for your poetry . ’ |
| 12 | Reciprocal arrangements with another nurse or friend can work — so long as you are flexible and no money exchanges hands , but if you have a child under five and payment is involved then your ‘ childminder ’ will either have to register with the local authority ( that is if she cares for your child in the minder 's own home ) or be employed as a nanny in yours . |
| 13 | Who wants to body bash ? ’ she shouts with her body language , as she looks for her type of guy in the park — a hunky Dobermann or a Rottweiler usually twice her size ! |
| 14 | ‘ It was one she designed for our château at Fabien 's request . |
| 15 | er Nothing or nobody in England make anything anywhere near to what she needs for her disability . |
| 16 | The only brush she possessed was the one she used for her make-up , and the only pencil the one she had found lying about on the sideboard . |
| 17 | So I put Lianne 's name down and what she used for her age . |
| 18 | If in a particular language a woman referred to a large number of men other than her husband by the same term as the one she used for her husband , this implied , for Morgan and Engels , that in an earlier stage of this system , a woman would have been wife to all of these men . |
| 19 | She apologises for her simplicity , giving a busy woman 's reason : ‘ T is true I write in shortened measure , Because I scrawl but at my leisure ; For why ? — sublimity of style Takes up a most prodigious while … |
| 20 | ‘ From Philadelphia , ’ she added for my benefit and with yet another winning smile . |
| 21 | She brought her haul of county match appearances up to 99 , while the number of times she played for her club — she was playing for Ganton up until a few months before her death — must have constituted a record . |
| 22 | However , she came for her appointment alone . |
| 23 | The memory of his last visit would not leave her ; there was a jagged edge to it — for had she not tried to force him against his will and had he not been aware of that and too kind to give her the direct reaction she deserved for her over-boldness ? |
| 24 | After the banning of The Well of Loneliness Radclyffe Hall was denied the recognition she deserved for her mastery of the narrative technique of interior monologue and as a writer who dealt with a great variety of themes , such as World War I , materialism , Catholicism , and the suppression of women by patriarchal society . |
| 25 | She begged for my forgiveness . |
| 26 | This was such a beautiful city , Merrill thought a couple of hours later as she paid for her coffee and left the pavement café . |
| 27 | I went to Norway and she paid for my treatment . |
| 28 | She paid for my mother to take French lessons and helped her find work as a seamstress with various drapers in the city . |
| 29 | As she prepares for her gold medal exam for speech and drama next month through the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art , she confesses she has cast aside ambitions she had as a ten- year-old to be an actress . |
| 30 | Without waiting for a reply , she put her head into the room and said in that all-things-bright-and-beautiful voice she reserved for her mother-in-law , which Greg found grating even on first acquaintance : ‘ I 've got a lovely surprise for you , Mother dear . |