Example sentences of "she [vb past] it for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , while Anna slept , she read it for the tenth time . |
| 2 | As with the girl who died earlier in the year , this beaker of solution was in her bedroom and she mistook it for a bedtime drink . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She tried it for a week , and then , then went to live with the Americans , and said the food was too fattening . |
| 5 | She watched it for a while until the ball came rather close . |
| 6 | She examined it for a moment , then squeezed it between thumb and fingernail and dropped it on the floor . |
| 7 | She needed it for the letter she was going to write in a minute to Nora . |
| 8 | She knew it for a fact . |
| 9 | Harry Martin was behind all this , and , although she had n't a hope of proving it , she knew it for a fact . |
| 10 | And she knew it for a fact when he murmured smoothly , ‘ I think I might find it agreeable . ’ |
| 11 | She saw it for a second , then it went behind a wave , and came up again . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She lifted her lip at me — I think she meant it for a smile . ’ |
| 14 | Mary had a metal cow she bought it for a tanner and every morning just at six she milked it with a |
| 15 | The photo was in there , too , but she left it for the time being . |
| 16 | In fact , as she considered it for the first time , she wondered how any of them had survived to tell the tale . |
| 17 | She stood it for a year . |