Example sentences of "she have [verb] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would prefer it otherwise , but she has asked for you . ’ |
| 2 | ( At his voice she has stopped for him , he catches her up . ) |
| 3 | A devoutly religious person , she has arranged for our interview to take place in the church where she spends much of her free time , in advance of today 's Good Friday service . |
| 4 | She has received for her 1990–91 sabbatical year a Research Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada to support her work on a new book on Gottfried Benn 's lyrical poetry . |
| 5 | Huntingtower , a story of exotic intrigue , is Ruritanian in tone if not in geography , with the exiled princess imprisoned in an ugly pseudo-Tudor mansion at the instigation of Paul , who needs the jewels she has guarded for her fellow-exiles for his plots against the Evallonian government . |
| 6 | She will have spent the last 30 years of their marriage sitting in the passenger seat of the car which she is still unable to drive , disappearing into the kitchen when his climbing friends call round for a beer , and laughing dutifully at his mountain anecdotes over a dinner she has made for his boss . |
| 7 | ‘ She has worked for me for a long time . |
| 8 | Of the several awards she has won for her paintings , it is probably The National Portrait Award of 1987 for which she is best recognised . |
| 9 | In later life the daughter may find herself self-condemned as , without adequate inner resources , she fails to live up to the ideal standards she has set for herself . |
| 10 | But then , he did n't know what she 'd done for him and was going to do . |
| 11 | She 'd stopped for him , though . |
| 12 | He 'd deceived and manipulated her again and again , and she 'd fallen for it every time . |
| 13 | Well she sent for , her mother came , and er , when she came in , explained to her , why she 'd sent for her , and she smacked the child across the face , and said , there was no need to do that . |
| 14 | She was enjoying the life she 'd made for herself here in Nottingham , and now she 'll have to go elsewhere . |
| 15 | When she finally came downstairs it was to find Carole insisting that , since this was their last night in the Hamptons before returning to the apartment in New York , she 'd arranged for them to have a romantic candle-lit dinner in their cottage . |
| 16 | Nor had she seen anyone she knew at the airport while she 'd waited for her flight . |
| 17 | I wonder if she 'd asked for him over at her house . |
| 18 | Pity to cut such a pretty face but she 'd asked for it . |
| 19 | She swam and read and sat in the sun … about as close as she had come to getting what she 'd imagined for her one shining summer . |
| 20 | She 'd slaved for him for the last seven year , and before that ever since she was born — eight or nine year was it — at the Old Mint ? |
| 21 | She cast away the unwelcome thought that if she was made redundant she would have to find new work immediately or forfeit that small oasis of security she 'd won for herself . |
| 22 | The jury at Oxford Crown Court found the married father of two guilty after hearing that he 'd tied the woman 's hands hands behind her back in the city 's New Road and subjected her to a terrifying ordeal , during which she 'd feared for her life . |
| 23 | Although whether her mother-in-law would actually give Ross the letter she 'd left for him , she had no idea . |
| 24 | And what did she have to say for herself ? |
| 25 | That Saturday evening she joined the passeggiata , with her hair pulled flat against her skull to smooth its crinkles and bring out its sheen , and the gold medallion of the Madonna she had received for her first communion hanging bright against the new pale shawl she had crocheted herself . |
| 26 | But in the end she had to choose for him . |
| 27 | He remembered their talk together and the bleak picture she had painted for him of her life . |
| 28 | She left dishes she had cooked for him , with notes underneath them . |
| 29 | She knew that she was always quietly satisfied to have him in the cottage , to hear his footfalls on the floor above , to share with him the meal she had cooked for herself at the end of the day . |
| 30 | She had hopes of an East India merchant taking it off her for £13,000 , and the shock of it falling through brought her to her senses , and to a realization of the depth of the hole she had dug for herself . |