Example sentences of "[pron] was [adv] for she [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time they returned to the table for the Christmas pudding John Harbour had moved and there was nowhere for her to sit except beside O'Hara . |
| 2 | In a secondary sort of way she knew that , beyond the opportunity to please and placate Maman , there was more for her to give if she should eat the horrible spinach . |
| 3 | The policewoman shot her a look which said that it was not for her to say so , even if she , herself , had been thinking it . |
| 4 | It was not for her to criticise him . |
| 5 | If he felt that his work lay here , it was not for her to question his decision , but she sometimes wished that something might happen to make him change his mind . |
| 6 | He had banged his glass on the table and it was not for her to disobey . |