Example sentences of "she [verb] [pers pn] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , while Anna slept , she read it for the tenth time . |
| 2 | As with the girl who died earlier in the year , this beaker of solution was in her bedroom and she mistook it for a bedtime drink . |
| 3 | Short of battering him on the head with a blunt instrument — the thought held immense appeal , and she savoured it for a long moment , before reluctantly putting it on hold — she could n't come up with any way out of the present situation . |
| 4 | She came over to me one night and she asked me for a lift . |
| 5 | And she asked me for the fifty P . |
| 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 tried it for a week , and then , then went to live with the Americans , and said the food was too fattening . |
| 8 | Relations between the Prime Minister and Nigel Lawson may still be strained ( she blames him for the present difficulties ) . |
| 9 | She blames him for the break-up of the coterie . |
| 10 | She done it for the burial club money . |
| 11 | To cover the fact that she had far too many feelings altogether , she ignored him for the first part of the morning . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'll be working like a Trojan for the next twelve weeks , ’ Lisa smiled back as she thanked him for the coffee . |
| 16 | She thanked me for the information — and then she left . ’ |
| 17 | So , ‘ Goodnight , Ven , ’ she bade him for a third time , only this time she stretched up to him and touched her lips to his cheek . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Carolyn knew that he was angry with her , for some reason which she could n't fathom , and that the more she pressed him for an explanation the more he clammed up over it . |
| 20 | Please would she meet him for a long dinner on Friday — he would expect to hear from her tomorrow or the next day . |
| 21 | 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 . ’ |
| 22 | She watched him for a moment . |
| 23 | She watched him for a moment , wishing she did n't feel so defensive every time he broached the subject of Arnie . |
| 24 | She watched him for a while , feeling superfluous . |
| 25 | She watched it for a while until the ball came rather close . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | She examined it for a moment , then squeezed it between thumb and fingernail and dropped it on the floor . |
| 28 | If so can she borrow/beg/steal them for a class item ? ? ? |
| 29 | She needed it for the letter she was going to write in a minute to Nora . |
| 30 | And then , because she did n't want to be saying goodbye to him any sooner than she had to , she took him for a wander through the main part of the Hall to see how the preparations were going . |