Example sentences of "when she [verb] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Pity to shut you away down here , ’ Mr Priddy said gruffly when she thanked him for his recommendation . |
| 2 | Johnson did not drink her proffered dram , but Boswell and the two guides did , and when she asked them for snuff , her great luxury , they had none , but gave her money instead . |
| 3 | ABBERLEY : When I left her — No , say , say , to put it another way , why not be kind , second husband , after all , when she left me for you , when she quit , she left in perfect repair . |
| 4 | ‘ When she left me for one of the other guys in the team , somebody I 'd kind of thought of as a friend … well , ’ he went on hurriedly , ‘ I was n't surprised she 'd gone . |
| 5 | Some people do n't stop when she asks them for money , but most people think for a bit and then dig in their pockets and give her summat . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She had forced him to live against the grain of his own nature which was weak and pleasure-loving and stubborn with it , so that when she beat him for laziness or lying , he became more determinedly idle and sullen . |
| 8 | Stephen was talking to a tall , elegantly dressed woman , who looked younger than she actually was , and her much older husband when she joined him for lunch in the beach bar . |