Example sentences of "she [verb] it 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 tried it for a week , and then , then went to live with the Americans , and said the food was too fattening . |
| 5 | She done it for the burial club money . |
| 6 | She watched it for a while until the ball came rather close . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She examined it for a moment , then squeezed it between thumb and fingernail and dropped it on the floor . |
| 9 | She needed it for the letter she was going to write in a minute to Nora . |
| 10 | She knew it for a fact . |
| 11 | Harry Martin was behind all this , and , although she had n't a hope of proving it , she knew it for a fact . |
| 12 | And she knew it for a fact when he murmured smoothly , ‘ I think I might find it agreeable . ’ |
| 13 | She saw it for a second , then it went behind a wave , and came up again . |
| 14 | I used to go and fetch the , the butter from do n't bring margarine my father used to say we put better stuff on our machines so er I used to go to for my father kept foul , I used to fetch a peck of , bushel of this and a bushel of , you know all the various things that , bran and stuff for the foul yes , yes and I believe a lady , she has , she 's only recently died and but she kept it for a long long while Elsie her name was . |
| 15 | She lifted her lip at me — I think she meant it for a smile . ’ |
| 16 | Mary had a metal cow she bought it for a tanner and every morning just at six she milked it with a |
| 17 | That she does it for the money , which symbolises affection , emotional security and personal achievement . |
| 18 | You know erm and I if she if she goes to emba cos I think she does it for the purpose really to people |
| 19 | The photo was in there , too , but she left it for the time being . |
| 20 | In fact , as she considered it for the first time , she wondered how any of them had survived to tell the tale . |
| 21 | She stood it for a year . |