Example sentences of "she for [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The expression that had been haunting her for nearly two days . |
| 2 | I had n't seen her since when we were on remand , and then we both got sentenced and got sent to different prisons , so I had n't seen her for nearly a year . |
| 3 | He had wanted her almost from the first moment , and he had loved her for nearly as long . |
| 4 | Alice was supposed to help but she always woke up too late because she had been working for her exam ; Emmie had to shake her for nearly five minutes before she came up , moaning , out of a deep well of sleep . |
| 5 | ‘ I have already paid her for tonight . ’ |
| 6 | Francesca sounded rattled and hostile , and McLeish gazed at the wall , wondering if he had really been in love with her for over a year . |
| 7 | The first time Jan Doak wore the dolphin suit in meeting common dolphins , one individual bonded with her for over four hours , a rare response from this shy species . |
| 8 | I did n't notice at first ; I saw her walking down the street in front of me , and without any hesitation I knew who it was — I had n't seen her for over a year , she had cut her hair off short and was wearing a dress , but I knew . |
| 9 | After trailing her for over two hours Poppy flopped down , but when I approached her she just got up and dived off through a hole in the fence . |
| 10 | He had been seeing her for over a year now and yesterday she popped the big question . |
| 11 | I knew you would n't mind having her for just a fortnight . ’ |
| 12 | Paula had at last persuaded Tweed to hand over the driving to her for awhile . |
| 13 | Toby Marten , Dead Certain 's owner , paid only 5,800 guineas for her and even after stumping up £10,000 to supplement her for yesterday 's race , he is still well over six figures in the plus in prize money , not to mention Dead Certain 's enormous intrinsic value . |
| 14 | I killed her for absolutely nothing . |
| 15 | She suddenly saw how selfish she had been , and knew at last the answer to the thing that had puzzled her for so long — why her mummy , who had been a keen Brownie Guider and loved Brownies , would n't let her join a Pack . |
| 16 | But you had known her for so long that she must have seemed immortal . ’ |
| 17 | Even that proved not enough to save her ; less than a year after her father 's passing , she finally succumbed to the illness which had beset her for so long , and was laid to rest at St John 's . |
| 18 | ‘ It is upsetting for the cast having worked with her for so long . |
| 19 | However , now he knew she was angry with him for leaving her for so long . |
| 20 | ‘ That 's why I used her for so many of the taped examples for my lectures , Folly . |
| 21 | But you are going to be sorry to see that one go because you 've looked after her for so long . |
| 22 | His arms around her , he began so gently that although McAllister was already feeling stifled , and the fear of men which had beset her for so long had begun to tighten its grip on her , she not only allowed him to kiss and fondle her face and neck , but let him undo her hair , so that it tumbled about her shoulders , as magnificent in its abandon as he had imagined it in the long nights when he had been unable to sleep . |
| 23 | She tried to control herself , but the will which had driven her for so long was broken , whether forever , or temporarily , she did not know . |
| 24 | He has planned his reunion with her for so long , that it almost ceases to become real by the time it actually occurs . |
| 25 | Well I , I , I , I 've see Mrs I 've had her for so many , many years |
| 26 | Diana vented all the grievances which had been welling up inside her for more than ten years . |
| 27 | He took care never to stay with her for more than twenty minutes , obeying both the spirit and the letter of Anthony 's orders , but he tried to give her a clear account of the eight days Kesselring had spent in the witness box , watching her face all the time for signs of boredom or exhaustion . |
| 28 | ‘ I stood by her for almost half an hour , before you came . |
| 29 | He was acquitted on the ground that ‘ he had her for almost a year with her goodwill . ’ |
| 30 | Obviously , she thought sourly , checking to make sure that no hanky-panky was going on under the table between Piers and her , or else he was still so infatuated that he could n't bear not to look at her for too long . |