Example sentences of "but she [verb] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The photo was in there , too , but she left it for the time being . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | She had not yet even recognised what it was , but she knew it for better worth than she had ever yet been given . |
| 4 | Claire says it 's always a challenge … you sometimes get cold … but she does it for enjoyment there 's no other reason |
| 5 | Ruth saw at once that her grandfather was not in the room , but she took it for granted that by some miracle he had improved enough to get upstairs and was resting in bed . |
| 6 | Jane Austen has her abbeys too , but she values them for rather different reasons . |
| 7 | It was too much but she loved him for it and let him kiss her when he came and stood beside her again . |
| 8 | ’ But she bought it for me and it 's brilliant . |