Example sentences of "she [modal v] [verb] [pers pn] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | She ought to hate him for what he threatened to do , yet inside she felt a treacherous excitement at the fact that he wanted to keep her close . |
| 2 | Imparting some factual information but more commonly referring the sufferer to resources from which he or she may find it for himself or herself . |
| 3 | She would raise her lamp and view the lover that she herself had grown , even if this meant that she must lose him for ever . |
| 4 | Tell Kate not to give way to despondency , perhaps she should drop it for a while and come back to it fresh with new ideas and enthusiasm . |
| 5 | Previously he had had no worry about her possible infidelity or that she might leave him for a more effective performer . |
| 6 | If you live round the corner from Mary Whitehouse could you pop in and tell her that her phone is off the hook she has n't replaced the receiver and she she 's quite an elderly lady and I would would be terribly upset if if she had n't got her phone back cos she might need it for emergencies or something like that and I am a caring concerned person so could you could you pop round the corner to Mary 's house and tell her that she has n't put her phone on the hook off the hook properly could you do that ? |
| 7 | If I do n't , I think she might sue me for every penny I have . |
| 8 | She might despise him for the methods he used in business , but the fact remained that she loved him , and if there was anything she could do to protect him she would do it . |
| 9 | At least , give it to my er my er stepmother and she 'll disguise it for you . |
| 10 | Just leave that , cos she 'll save it for you . |
| 11 | Well precisely for that reason , that not only this particular person , but lots of other people at times cause trouble , and I 'm not always there erm and Pauline , who 's next to me , who you 'll probably talk to in a minute — she 's over eighty , she 'll kill me for telling you that because she does n't look it , she only looks about forty , but — erm she stuck in there and people are frightened and erm worried about her , and the fact is that erm there 's no other way of calling the police than having a phone . |
| 12 | Marie yelled after me to wait but I did n't want to talk to her about it so I chucked my sandwich-box over to her and told her she could eat them for me . |
| 13 | She could choose it for herself — money was no object . |
| 14 | She could hate him for those , and lose any incomprehensible hurt they occasioned in the heat of that hatred . |
| 15 | At least , she could understand him for her uncle , later to be the 6th Duke , was deaf as well . |
| 16 | She could use it for spills to light her fags . ’ |
| 17 | He might work off his lust on her body and she could despise him for that . |
| 18 | So she 'd have it for a week . |
| 19 | ‘ She 'd have you for that suggestion . ’ |
| 20 | Later that day , Mrs Knelle declared that she 'd take me for a drive , to see Ashford Castle , a local stately home that was now an hotel . |
| 21 | Later , she 'd take him for a walk , if her father did n't have time . |
| 22 | Sh she used to rent it for dances , but her dance class was in er do you know where the Territorial Hall is in er Street ? |
| 23 | She would wear it for Chapel Anniversary , I would think , because that was a very special occasion in Baldersdale . |
| 24 | Yes , while he slept she would prepare it for him . |
| 25 | If she had let this chance slip , she knew she would regret it for the rest of her life . |
| 26 | But at last I learned to know what a lie was : to induce my mother to stop beating me I would lie — I would say , yes , I had lied and was sorry , and then she would whip me for having withheld the admission so long . |
| 27 | One day soon she would see him for the last time . |
| 28 | After supper , Louise would leave Nora to herself until the nine o'clock news and then she would join her for a nightcap . |
| 29 | As for killing Havvie , I did not think that she would thank me for the scandal , ’ he finished simply . |
| 30 | She would take me for coffee . |