Example sentences of "[adv] she [vb past] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he was near enough she went for him with clawed hands . |
| 2 | So she paid for it on the spot and took it home . |
| 3 | And lastly she wept for herself . |
| 4 | Desperately she sought for something to break the enchantment of his rhythmic strokes . |
| 5 | His thin pink lips , which normally she loved for their delicacy and sensitivity , were stretched in a colourless line , and between them showed sharp discoloured teeth . |
| 6 | Her mum loves it , her friends think the attention is great , but bosses at a firm of Belfast architects could n't spare the city girl the time off she needed for her modelling . |
| 7 | I 've often heard women enhancing the well-known reaction to a sexually victimised woman : ‘ Well she asked for it , did n't she ? |
| 8 | Here she remained for what seemed an eternity . |
| 9 | If only she could tell him how she longed for him to carry her off , but would n't that make him think her wanton ? |
| 10 | A wife 's vivid account of how she cared for her declining husband . |
| 11 | That was the fatal way — sometimes she trembled for her dear one . |
| 12 | And then she went for him , her voice trembling , her eyes staring with sudden hate , all the Latin in her coming out as she ripped his hand from her shoulder . |
| 13 | Then she apologised for her mask , which was indeed extraordinary , and said it was the custom of her people . |
| 14 | And then she reached for him . |
| 15 | She poured her own mug , stirred in two sugars , and then she poured for him . |
| 16 | There she wept for her sins and her tears washed away the blood ; The form in which this sermon harnesses the pressure of fear as well as the promise of comfort , provides a recognisable cultural context for the form of Margery Kempe 's initial vision of salvation and witnesses to the high esteem in which tears as a sign of spiritual grace were held in the fifteenth century . |
| 17 | Hastily she searched for her purse in her bag , recalling part of their earlier conversation when he had been escorting her around the park . |
| 18 | Mrs Seaton 's husband died so she did n't have no money — that 's why she worked for us . |
| 19 | These all turned out to be negative and the examining doctor decided to take rectal samples when she returned for her results as he felt she would be unlikely to come back a third time . |
| 20 | The conclusive Senate vote was scheduled for Oct. 8 , but had to be delayed for seven days following revelation of new evidence from Anita Hill , 35 , a black University of Oklahoma teacher of law , who alleged that Thomas had subjected her to sexual harassment with explicit , pornographic suggestions when she worked for him at the Department of Education and the EEOC in the early 1980s . |
| 21 | There had been tears in her eyes as she crossed the road with him to Mario 's and he brought two cups of coffee and two club milk chocolate biscuits to the plastic-topped table where she waited for him . |
| 22 | Esther Clark moved to Tetbury , where she cared for her step-daughter and took an active interest in local charities . |
| 23 | Hectically she scrabbled for something constructive to say . |
| 24 | Breathlessly she watched for what the moving flags would say next . |