Example sentences of "she [verb] [vb pp] him for " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd fancied him for ages and when he asked her out she managed to keep her cool even though she felt faint . |
| 2 | She 'd spotted him for the first time three weekends ago when she 'd walked out on to the nightclub stage to perform her warm-up spot for the star turn of the evening . |
| 3 | Imagine , she 'd thanked him for telling her Rob was missing ! |
| 4 | It was about a wife who 'd cheated on her husband , she 'd left him for his best friend , and now the man was on the road trying to mend his broken heart . |
| 5 | She allowed her fingers to roam , her eyes tightly shut , her mind vividly picturing him as she had seen him for the very first time . |
| 6 | His crooked smile was very much in evidence and Matey could have told her that since her arrival Dr Neil had been happier than she had seen him for a long time — there had been fewer backslidings towards the ‘ nasty whisky ’ since McAllister had appeared in his life to provide him with such rich amusement . |
| 7 | It was one of the joys of life , and particularly she loved dancing tonight with Tony Radcliffe , because he was her oldest friend in the world and this was the first time she had seen him for eighteen months . |
| 8 | She had shot him for all the things he had done to her and her husband , shot him because , in the end , she still loved him , and it made his ultimate betrayal all the harder to bear . |
| 9 | And because he thought she had followed him for just that purpose ? |
| 10 | After the matinée , she had met him for tea , and he had held her hand , and looked soulful , and told her how innocent she was and how easy it would be to fall in love with her , but how he must n't , he could n't , because he would be leaving and it would n't be fair to her , and anyway , he had his career to think of , etc . |
| 11 | Once she had seemed to know a good deal about him , but in her idle rancour of the last few weeks she had abused him for faults that seemed nothing to do with the truth of him . |
| 12 | His cool irony brought swift colour to her cheeks as she recalled how furiously she had condemned him for doing just that . |
| 13 | She had rebuked him for drinking a bit too much beforehand . |
| 14 | She had lost him for a while , at the party , but she 'd already been too drunk to worry . |
| 15 | But she knew in her heart that , if she had ever had Jonathon , she had lost him for good . |
| 16 | He pushed through the swing doors and was gone , leaving her close to tears and frantically worried that she had upset him for ever . |
| 17 | He wondered if she had abandoned him for ever . |
| 18 | He was a very easy person to talk to , and long before they reached home she felt as if she had known him for years . |
| 19 | She had known him for many years . |
| 20 | With surprise , Juliet realised he was referring to his hospital episode , when she had nursed him for the last two weeks of his stay . |
| 21 | She had sued him for libel . |