Example sentences of "[vb past] for her [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My heart ached for her as I realised that she had joined the ranks of so many others I had known , who had watched their men fly off into the dusk , never to be heard of again . |
| 2 | He reached for her and she stepped nimbly behind a chair . |
| 3 | He reached for her and she slumped into his arms . |
| 4 | Beginning to spin himself , he reached for her as she whirled slowly under his crotch . |
| 5 | Her silence spoke for her and he turned to his room , anger making his eyes glitter . |
| 6 | Yet , she admitted , he was ‘ ever a good man , and an easy man to her … and had compassion on her , and spoke for her as he durst , for dread of the people ’ . |
| 7 | We laboured for her because we liked her , but she tolerated no lazy work : she was a perfectionist and she had taste , insisting on only the best materials , which was unusual in the suburbs , where Victorian or Edwardian houses were generally smashed open and stripped bare , only to be filled with chipboard and Formica . |