Example sentences of "she [vb past] [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 | To cover the fact that she had far too many feelings altogether , she ignored him for the first part of the morning . |
| 13 | They just were n't compatible , she told herself for the umpteenth time . |
| 14 | This is crazy , she told herself for the umpteenth time . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'll be working like a Trojan for the next twelve weeks , ’ Lisa smiled back as she thanked him for the coffee . |
| 19 | She thanked me for the information — and then she left . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | She strengthened herself for a fight . |
| 24 | 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 . ’ |
| 25 | She watched him for a moment . |
| 26 | She watched him for a moment , wishing she did n't feel so defensive every time he broached the subject of Arnie . |
| 27 | She watched him for a while , feeling superfluous . |
| 28 | She watched it for a while until the ball came rather close . |
| 29 | She examined it for a moment , then squeezed it between thumb and fingernail and dropped it on the floor . |
| 30 | They could n't avoid being seen together and she braced herself for the blast from Georg and from her parents . |