Example sentences of "she for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , I was in her for thirteen months . |
| 2 | He says yes , I 've had her for thirteen years , but I 'm building another one , also with a steam engine . |
| 3 | He waited with her for eight hours at the Northampton car park . |
| 4 | He waited with her for eight hours at the Northampton car park . |
| 5 | We 've had her for eight years . ’ |
| 6 | I have n't seen her for bloody ages . |
| 7 | It seems that she had fallen in love with him but she " did n't know where I was at all " with him ; he would be most affectionate towards her and then , for no apparent reason , seemed to avoid her for protracted periods . |
| 8 | And I said yes , I said you know what Sue can be like , you 've been with her for twelve months and you 're daft enough |
| 9 | He glared down at her for eternal seconds and then his mouth descended and Robyn felt the anger and fire , still there , but focused this time in the searing heat of his kiss , the grip of his embrace , the rough glory as his hands roamed her body , conjuring desire and need out of nowhere , moulding her to him , showing Robyn just how much she wanted him , how much he desired her . |
| 10 | She went with Breeze to call upon Mrs Rossitter , who was so charmed with her voice that she engaged her on the spot to read to her for two hours every day . |
| 11 | For Small , getting out the magazine that had absorbed her for two years was the commitment , not this eccentric lurch into the unknown . |
| 12 | Hagans said he 'd known her for two years and they 'd met by appointment . |
| 13 | And now he was stuck with her for two months . |
| 14 | I 've done without her for two months now . ’ |
| 15 | So instead , a confident horseperson was engaged to do battle with Honey , but after riding her for two weeks Honey 's behaviour was worse . |
| 16 | I have n't seen her for two weeks now . |
| 17 | She worked for her for eighteen years . |
| 18 | Even now he had learnt that Pete Foster , the man being investigated for murder and fraud in the Docks , a hard man , was terrified of his old mother and had kept his successful career in crime hidden from her for sixteen years . |
| 19 | I really missed her if I did n't see her for six hours . |
| 20 | In a period of ten months in 1764 – 5 the Exeter Mercury reported the case of a man , wife , son and daughter-in-law jointly indicted for the murder of a girl apprentice by " beating and barbarously using her " ; the ill-treatment of a thirteen-year-old girl by a master and mistress who branded her on her buttocks , chained her for six hours to an apple tree and then beat her severely before making her work ; and a third case , which shows up the vulnerability to sexual abuse of children bound out by the parish , in which a man was sentenced for castrating two eight-year-old boys . |
| 21 | He 's lived with her for six years but can only describe her job vaguely , as ‘ something in administration ’ . |
| 22 | I went to my G P , having avoided her for fifteen years , having getting the old story every time you went well you must go on a diet ! |
| 23 | Because there was nothing in Clara 's past that would seem to have fitted her for such recognitions : she was not bred to it . |
| 24 | read her , read her for new signs , |
| 25 | It therefore seemed logical to press a little of every suitable plant in her garden and later to create a design from it that would remind her for many years to come of her treasured garden . |
| 26 | An officer who worked alongside her for many years interpreted the fact that he had seen her kneeling at the mercy seat more than any other officer as a sign of her close relationship with God and the constant need for the kind of realignment which requires a certain humbling of oneself . |
| 27 | Well he had n't seen her for many years ? |
| 28 | She 's with a boy our age — a toy boy — and though he deserts her for young girls and even beats her up — she 's such a sucker for punishment , she goes back for more . |
| 29 | The tug refloated the vessel , towed her to a sheltered anchorage where she was made fit for the tow to Hong Kong , and thereafter towed her for four days to docks in Hong Kong . |
| 30 | I lived with her for four years . |