Example sentences of "[pron] she [verb] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 31 | She has just finished a portrait of seven-year-old Tulip Dempster , a Pekingese , commissioned by Lady Camilla for Nigel Dempster 's birthday — the second one she has done for the family — and a portrait of Mr and Mrs John Menzies ' two dogs . |
| 32 | He managed to spend the odd hour alone with Grace , who told him she had fallen for a Welsh corporal who had stood on a land-mine and ended up blind in one eye . |
| 33 | Like him she had taken for granted the fact that Martha would marry the miller 's son . |
| 34 | She hoped it would throw Maurin off guard , persuade him she had come for a little of his flirtatious conversation at the least , a few more questions about Durance and Sabine Jourdain at the most . |
| 35 | Yet as she sank to the floor and died they fell back , they shrank back and made the space for her she had needed for life . |
| 36 | Oreste would die , she saw that now , for what was it she had felt for Ferdinando if not lust ? |
| 37 | Clenching his fists , rigid with rage , Angel advanced on her , translating what she had said for the others . |
| 38 | To the right of the back door , she found what she had hoped for , a Victorian window with a pane broken in the top light , leaving the catch within easy reach of someone of Theodora 's height . |
| 39 | I did n't know what she had planned for me but I understood well enough her meaning . |
| 40 | All she wanted to do was yield to it , because it was what she had wanted for the whole time she had been with him . |
| 41 | Guilt and exhaustion is what she had felt for the next year . |
| 42 | It seemed very important just then to remember exactly what she had felt for Anthony at the beginning . |
| 43 | She was beginning to realise that whatever Lydia felt for Beuno was different in kind from what she had felt for Finn , and this had eased her incipient unhappiness , for while it is one thing not to win the beloved it is another to see him swept off by somebody else , and far , far worse . |
| 44 | Her lips moved passionately across his chest , tasting and devouring what she had craved for so long . |
| 45 | Now , looking back with the wisdom of adulthood , she could appreciate what she had taken for granted at the time . |
| 46 | It was what she had longed for . |
| 47 | She came along sedately in the middle of the night in complete confidence , the umbrella raised and perfect , with a look of absolute bliss on her face to show her mother what she had got for a present . |
| 48 | He thought it was what she had come for . |
| 49 | ‘ Ah , Rachel , ’ he said without giving her a chance to say what she had come for . |
| 50 | It was said before she fully realised what she had wished for him . |
| 51 | But it was work , and he need no longer allow Dinah to pay for anything , except for what she chose to purchase for herself . |
| 52 | But then , he did n't know what she 'd done for him and was going to do . |
| 53 | She swam and read and sat in the sun … about as close as she had come to getting what she 'd imagined for her one shining summer . |
| 54 | But she had learned what she 'd rung for . |
| 55 | She points out that after battling against the booze for some years it only took a short relapse to destroy much of what she 'd worked for . |
| 56 | Rising unsteadily to her feet , determinedly keeping her mind on what she needed to care for fitzAlan , Isabel opened the door of the hut . |
| 57 | Now , at last , she realised that whatever she had felt for Richard was long since buried , under an avalanche of hurt and disillusion . |
| 58 | ‘ When Jane told us she had asked for a divorce it was a complete shock . ’ |