Example sentences of "[pers pn] for she " in BNC.
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| 31 | He poured it for her and watched with one eyebrow raised as she gulped at it . |
| 32 | Or you could do what my elderly neighbour does : every time she feels like decorating she pays a neighbour 's student son to come in and do it for her . |
| 33 | In those early months he had wanted her to know the magnitude of what he had done and that he had done it for her . |
| 34 | Most of them do all they can for the elderly with their limited resources , but if your parent is badly in need of a telephone and there is no way of your managing to install it for her , you should bring every possible pressure to bear to produce some speedy action on his or her behalf ; for sudden illness , and the need for medical attention , does not wait for lengthy negotiations and committee work to rumble on indefinitely before it puts in an appearance.With very few exceptions , blaming individual social workers for delay in providing any particular service is usually an unfair and useless exercise , for they are only part of a large organisation and if things go wrong an approach to the local Director of Social Services is the best course of action . |
| 35 | It was the first time she had been able to grant his wish and take him to visit Santa Claus in a large department store , and that made it for her the happiest Christmas she could remember . |
| 36 | Nan was in the running for that kind of life , and Emily would do everything in her power to get it for her . |
| 37 | Mr Wishart stood up and opened it for her , handing her the wicker basket which seemed surprisingly light ; the old lady stepped off the train onto a now deserted platform . |
| 38 | Or had someone else done it for her ? |
| 39 | Fortunately , Mr Leland did it for her . |
| 40 | It was n't until almost his last breath that he told her of the board beneath his bed and what was under it , assuring her he had saved it for her . |
| 41 | He led her to the door and opened it for her . |
| 42 | ‘ You played it for her , you can play it for me ’ : MacWeek expects Apple Computer Inc this month to announce a software only information server code-named Bogart that simplifies and accelerates text search and retrieval ; the thing will use agent technology to enable users to perform English-language queries with Boolean operators and proximity searches of text stored on a central server or on CD-ROMs and will deliver ‘ smart relevance ’ search results , ranked by pertinence to the user 's query ; searches can reportedly occur on demand or at user-specified time intervals . |
| 43 | She needs to break through and this could be the one to do it for her . |
| 44 | Ellie lit it for her with a match from a small silver box ‘ Merci , mon petit chou , ’ said Madame . |
| 45 | Marie McKnight , who prepared their submission , can not be here and has delegated OLIVER KEARNEY to present it for her . |
| 46 | I bought it for her , see , with my first wages , and when she gave it back , I gave it to you . |
| 47 | She took it , and he lit it for her . |
| 48 | But the shopman had already bowed as though keeping it for her was all any human being could ask . |
| 49 | He would be willing , of course , to keep it for her for ever . |
| 50 | ‘ I want it for her , I want it very much . ’ |
| 51 | I finished it for her . |
| 52 | I found out later Sonia had done it for her . |
| 53 | He was too far out of her reach , she thought , she would never be comfortable with him ; she would always think of herself as somehow his ward , his adopted orphan , his property ; there would be no real place in it for her . |
| 54 | She let him pour it for her while she threw another log on to the fire , smashing a cathedral of embers . |
| 55 | ‘ Is it for her ? |
| 56 | If so , what was in it for her ? |
| 57 | He released it for her from between the seats . |
| 58 | She walked past Jotan to the door , and the pages who were stationed there hastened to open it for her . |
| 59 | Amy has also learned to take responsibility for her own happiness , rather than trusting Joe to invest and harvest it for her . |
| 60 | In 1894 she was in a position to build her own home at Munstead Wood and it was Lutyens , sharing her feelings for the Surrey vernacular and the arts and crafts lifestyle , who designed it for her . |