Example sentences of "she [vb past] [pron] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | She came over to me one night and she asked me for a lift . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She tried it for a week , and then , then went to live with the Americans , and said the food was too fattening . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She strengthened herself for a fight . |
| 8 | She watched him for a moment . |
| 9 | She watched him for a moment , wishing she did n't feel so defensive every time he broached the subject of Arnie . |
| 10 | She watched him for a while , feeling superfluous . |
| 11 | She watched it for a while until the ball came rather close . |
| 12 | She examined it for a moment , then squeezed it between thumb and fingernail and dropped it on the floor . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She took us for a walk with a soldier , |
| 16 | She knew it for a fact . |
| 17 | Harry Martin was behind all this , and , although she had n't a hope of proving it , she knew it for a fact . |
| 18 | And she knew it for a fact when he murmured smoothly , ‘ I think I might find it agreeable . ’ |
| 19 | She had chosen for herself the human equivalent of sackcloth and ashes , and she denounced herself for a masochist . |
| 20 | She saw it for a second , then it went behind a wave , and came up again . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | She lifted her lip at me — I think she meant it for a smile . ’ |
| 23 | Mary had a metal cow she bought it for a tanner and every morning just at six she milked it with a |
| 24 | ‘ Goodnight ! ’ she wished him for a fourth time , and went to her room feeling very much better about everything . |
| 25 | After that she said nothing for a while , only sat watching me in a broody way . |
| 26 | She said nothing for a while . |
| 27 | She said nothing for a long time , then shook her head . |
| 28 | She said nothing for a moment , and looked down . |
| 29 | She said nothing for a moment , then : ‘ I did n't know him very well . ’ |
| 30 | She stood it for a year . |