Example sentences of "she [verb] [pron] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , while Anna slept , she read it for the tenth time . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | And she asked me for the fifty P . |
| 4 | Do I want this job so badly ? she asked herself for the hundredth time . |
| 5 | So what was wrong with her ? she asked herself for the hundredth time as she sat sipping a glass of wine in his apartment in the Barbican some weeks after they 'd first met . |
| 6 | Security said they 'd send someone over right away , and she busied herself for the next few minutes with the half-dozen patients in the waiting area . |
| 7 | Relations between the Prime Minister and Nigel Lawson may still be strained ( she blames him for the present difficulties ) . |
| 8 | To cover the fact that she had far too many feelings altogether , she ignored him for the first part of the morning . |
| 9 | They just were n't compatible , she told herself for the umpteenth time . |
| 10 | This is crazy , she told herself for the umpteenth time . |
| 11 | I was not proposing to ask her about her relationship , or lack of it , with Edward VIII and Mrs Simpson , or to what degree she blamed them for the unexpected and , at the time , unwelcome change in her life . |
| 12 | So , ‘ Goodnight , Ven , ’ she bade him for a third time , only this time she stretched up to him and touched her lips to his cheek . |
| 13 | Please would she meet him for a long dinner on Friday — he would expect to hear from her tomorrow or the next day . |
| 14 | She saw them for the first time about half way through the second week . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ Goodnight ! ’ she wished him for a fourth time , and went to her room feeling very much better about everything . |
| 17 | She said nothing for a long time , then shook her head . |
| 18 | In fact , as she considered it for the first time , she wondered how any of them had survived to tell the tale . |
| 19 | He had n't seen her eat anything for a long time . |