Example sentences of "she [verb] [pron] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , while Anna slept , she read it for the tenth time . |
| 2 | And she asked me for the fifty P . |
| 3 | Do I want this job so badly ? she asked herself for the hundredth time . |
| 4 | So what was wrong with her ? she asked herself for the hundredth time as she sat sipping a glass of wine in his apartment in the Barbican some weeks after they 'd first met . |
| 5 | She added something for the panel to remember her by — sheer seamed black tights with black and grey checked flat shoes and , on the lapel of her jacket , a blue glass antique brooch . |
| 6 | Security said they 'd send someone over right away , and she busied herself for the next few minutes with the half-dozen patients in the waiting area . |
| 7 | Relations between the Prime Minister and Nigel Lawson may still be strained ( she blames him for the present difficulties ) . |
| 8 | She blames him for the break-up of the coterie . |
| 9 | She done it for the burial club money . |
| 10 | To cover the fact that she had far too many feelings altogether , she ignored him for the first part of the morning . |
| 11 | They just were n't compatible , she told herself for the umpteenth time . |
| 12 | This is crazy , she told herself for the umpteenth time . |
| 13 | Managing the boat , he was in total command , and she admired him for the ease with which he wove between the countless busy craft , the pleasure boats , gondolas and the small and large ferries , his eyes constantly alert . |
| 14 | As a single woman living with her uncle , the negligent landlord Mr Brooke , Dorothea has good reason to concern herself with cottages , although she intends them for the estate of the obliging Sir James , having presumably abandoned her uncle as a hopeless case . |
| 15 | I was not proposing to ask her about her relationship , or lack of it , with Edward VIII and Mrs Simpson , or to what degree she blamed them for the unexpected and , at the time , unwelcome change in her life . |
| 16 | She blamed herself for the way Tina was , though she did not know what she had done wrong , and she blamed herself for not trying harder to keep Tina in her house when she wanted to go off to Jarvis Stringer 's . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'll be working like a Trojan for the next twelve weeks , ’ Lisa smiled back as she thanked him for the coffee . |
| 18 | She thanked me for the information — and then she left . ’ |
| 19 | They sued the well-known actress Constance Collier for the £16 9s 3d which they said she owed them for the flowers which her maid had ordered by telephone to be delivered to the Savoy Theatre . |
| 20 | He described a life so different from my own that I could not have imagined it — ‘ She loved me for the dangers I had passed , and I loved her , that she did pity them . ’ |
| 21 | Aye I said , so she said the landlord 's never put it down so we thought he 'd have had it down by she come home cos Alison seen it and where they work and th and there 's a room there or something and she 'd asked the boss could she have it for the bathroom . |
| 22 | They could n't avoid being seen together and she braced herself for the blast from Georg and from her parents . |
| 23 | She needed it for the letter she was going to write in a minute to Nora . |
| 24 | She saw them for the first time about half way through the second week . |
| 25 | Sometimes , although she chided herself for the thought , it seemed as if in trying to be unselfish and giving him what he wanted , she had allowed herself to be turned into a sacrifice . |
| 26 | Instinctively her hand drew the sheet higher before she chided herself for the gesture . |
| 27 | in the endland It was too far to go every day , so I went for the week , came home to the flat at weekends , She had squash , groundnuts , rows of beans on nylon lines She had me for the weeding . |
| 28 | That she does it for the money , which symbolises affection , emotional security and personal achievement . |
| 29 | You know erm and I if she if she goes to emba cos I think she does it for the purpose really to people |
| 30 | The photo was in there , too , but she left it for the time being . |