Example sentences of "for she [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's not easy to describe Signe , for she left you with a memory out of all relation to her true appearance . |
| 2 | Talking to Nephthys was a way of getting to know her dead sister by proxy , for she had plenty of spirit , and within her there was a streak of rebellion against her family , particularly her father , though there was no hint of it in any word she spoke . |
| 3 | As was shown at , for example , the close of the Gay News case , Mrs Whitehouse suggested that she was pleased that the paper 's editor , Denis Lemon , was not sent to prison for she had nothing against him personally . |
| 4 | It would not square with any value she had taught herself to cherish , for she believed herself above such petty sentiments , and could cope with them now only by turning her dislike upon herself . |
| 5 | For , after all , it was not humility that restrained her from believing herself to be at first sight infinitely interesting , for she believed herself to be the equal even of Clelia Denham : it was simply a deference to the law of probability . |
| 6 | It struck her as a terrible waste , for she felt nothing as Kattina erotically licked her sensitive flesh in dainty , small circles commencing at her throat , and finishing inside her dinky navel . |
| 7 | Clara , as she ran for the Métro , was full of the greatest joy of her life , for she felt herself to be , at last , living ; the thick complexity of what had happened satisfied something in her that had never before had satisfaction . |
| 8 | If Cad had become aware of him on that occasion , as she soon would , when she became their go-between , she would have taken his attachment as her due : she counted the giving of delight as nothing for she accomplished it without intending it . |
| 9 | And Clara , who could see no elegant way of enlarging this tantalizing scrap of information , had to make do with it — she dared not ask any further , for she knew nothing about the Labour Party , nor about the elder Ash 's political views , nor about A. J. Warbley himself , beyond the fact that his name was written up in black Gothic letters over his son 's shop door . |
| 10 | Clara felt herself to be extremely fortunate in her membership of this group , and the insecurity of Janice 's position in it fortified her , for she knew herself to be more secure , less irritating , less tactless in every way than Janice . |
| 11 | For she introduced me to a pleasure-land which transcended all hitherto known joys . |
| 12 | A Buckinghamshire village boy ‘ liked best to go and stay ’ with a farming grandmother , finding a ‘ special quiet ’ and ‘ peace ’ about her ; while a Yorkshire weaver 's son who went to stay with his grandmother for several weeks ‘ during family sickness ’ always kept the bond they made then — ‘ religious , yet loving , although seemingly cold , perhaps I had a special bit of her love , for she corrected me with thrashing me . ’ |
| 13 | Surely Ruth would not hurt the cat , for she stroked them on walls . |
| 14 | Tricia noticed it too , for she put herself between us again on the front seat and I heard the giveaway click-clack from her pocket . |
| 15 | She never called her father ‘ Daddy ’ but Calvin when talking about him , she feared him for she described him as if he was some towering evil giant . |