Example sentences of "and [vb past] she for [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Having had the good fortune to fall in with Gabriel outside Cat 's Coffee Shop as she was on her way home , he had seized his chance and asked her for an early supper . |
2 | After her marriage Signor Cantoni 's mother had seemed unable to bear a child so she took a large bunch of carnations to the Madonna and asked her for the gift of a baby . |
3 | At Zog Central they found the policewoman and asked her for the key to their spaceship . |
4 | He came back and hugged her for a while . |
5 | He leaned back in his chair and surveyed her for a moment . |
6 | As Ross monopolised her company , and claimed her for every dance , Laura was dimly aware that not only were her friends amazed , and frankly envious , but that she and Ross were the focus of all eyes , and much gossip . |
7 | Guido smiled , lifting one eyebrow , and watched her for a moment . |
8 | as he half knew , he would be asked to acquiesce in some lunatic scheme for pulling Tristram out of trouble , and saw her for a moment from a position of detachment : a tall young woman looking younger than her twenty-nine years . |
9 | He was supported by a most devoted wife who looked after him for many years until , late in his life , he rejected and abandoned her for a younger woman . |