Example sentences of "she be [v-ing] [pers pn] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | She stood up and looked round the room as though she were leaving it for the last time . |
| 2 | She glanced up at him , feeling oddly shy , almost as though she were meeting him for the first time with no doubts , no mistrust , between them . |
| 3 | The expletive sounded strange to the sergeant on Blanche 's lips , as if she were hearing it for the first time . |
| 4 | She made it sound as if she were saying it for the first time . |
| 5 | even though she 's getting it for the technology . |
| 6 | She 's meeting us for lunch , by the way . ’ |
| 7 | She 's investing it for her . |
| 8 | No she 's buying it for me birthday . |
| 9 | Oh right , right , well I have a lady actually round the corner who 's er in the WRAF and er she 's doing it for me , she 's just on three week 's leave at the moment |
| 10 | No well she had this special thing so it 's done the trick so she has n't worn it yet though , I think she 's doing it for the wedding ai n't she ? |
| 11 | She 's milking it for all it 's worth . |
| 12 | Well they 're three weeks old and she 's selling them for two hundred and fifty pounds . |
| 13 | Woman , the top that I 'm gon na buy for Romax and Jason eight ninety nine and she 's selling it for one fifty . |
| 14 | If she 's not polishing the auld bits and pieces , she 's naggin' me for new curtains ! ’ |
| 15 | Of course , she may be seeing you to tell you she 's suing you for slander . ’ |
| 16 | She will think she is losing me for ever . |
| 17 | I had no idea she was using me for a purpose of her own : I was too naive to realise until it dawned on me what it was , a few weeks later . |
| 18 | ‘ Perhaps she was saving it for you . ’ |
| 19 | No one would have guessed she was wearing it for any other reason . |
| 20 | She was taking it for granted that he knew who she was ; but then anyone who had read the papers must know that . |
| 21 | I suspect that in the excitement of going on board I hardly realized she was leaving me for good . |
| 22 | She trusted him , for her own part , without reserve or doubt ; but she was trusting him for those who crossed the river and took the risks . |
| 23 | The boyish expression transformed the hard planes of his face and she stared at him as if she was seeing him for the first time . |
| 24 | Can you not see what erm er this woman fainted into my arms and she was embracing me for letting her not take her fall . |
| 25 | She was pressing it for dear life now as if she was in a panic , and she kept her finger on it until , through the glass door , she saw the flicker of a candle weaving its way down through the shop . |
| 26 | Her tail burned like a furnace ; and yet she was presenting it for more torment . |
| 27 | She was making them for him , then he 's making him some an'all . |
| 28 | She was doing them for him . ’ |
| 29 | But she was doing it for their child , and in order to make sure that Angel was happy she needed the Reverend Morey . |
| 30 | She was doing it for fun , a one-off comeback to the sport she had come to despise and walked out of five years ago . |