Example sentences of "[pron] she [vb past] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Maybe it was somethin' she had for breakfast , ’ Sonny said . |
| 2 | I shall ride up on the Norton , ’ he told her , and there was a difficult pause in which she waited for him to suggest she should come up to Liverpool in the New Year . |
| 3 | The child was entirely Lassiter in appearance so that , while she was pleased on Stephen 's behalf , Tamar could not feel the deep love which she had for her daughter . |
| 4 | Robyn , doing her best to ignore the almost overwhelming feeling of pure dislike which she had for this man , glanced at the ornate carriage clock beside the bed , registered the time slowly and looked aghast . |
| 5 | She was all set to paint , but when Vitor slid his hands into his trouser pockets and , with jacket flaring back , strolled across to inspect the items which she had for sale , her gaze compulsively followed him . |
| 6 | She claimed she had never realised the significance of the tape , which she played for the first time ‘ weeks later ’ . |
| 7 | Only time will tell but at least it is a step in the right direction and certainly in line with the views expressed by Mary Joe Fernandez in a splendidly reasoned and cogent article which she wrote for The New York Times at the end of last year . |
| 8 | Her fingers were sliding over the satiny warmth of her skin , and in a sweet intimate flash of reminder , or of warning , her body ( her secret breathing body which she ignored for nearly all of her time , trying to forget it ) came to life and spoke to her . |
| 9 | You refer to her stately homes , which she cared for deeply , but more importantly round these homes she knew by name a huge number of tenants , workers and friends who always received a warm and cheerful word , and many enjoyed great generosity from her and her husband . |
| 10 | At which she reached for a bottle of whisky called Old Rarity . |
| 11 | Her best known books , though , were Royal Service and Royal Secrets , which she ghost-wrote for the Prince of Wales 's former valet , Stephen Barry . |
| 12 | ‘ Personal self-denial for the good of others was the first important lesson Annie learned , ’ says Taylor , ‘ and it was a principle by which she stood for the rest of her life . ’ |
| 13 | The garden depicted with such passionate intensity is based on one at Maytham Hall , a house in Kent which she rented for many years and last visited in 1907 . |
| 14 | She pinched herself , but might as well have been pinching the padded plastic of the bed on which she sat for all the sensation she felt . |
| 15 | In May 1936 , believing the emperor of Ethiopia 's cause to be a just one , she began a weekly journal , New Times and Ethiopia News , which she edited for twenty years . |
| 16 | I had a friend who told me she fell for a boy when she woke up in the morning and realised he did n't snore . |
| 17 | Her first professional appearance was in Montreal with Les Grands Ballets Canadiens , with whom she stayed for two years before returning home to use her classically trained talents in summer stock productions of Bye , Bye , Birdie ; Fiorello ; and Blossom Time . |
| 18 | But she did n't want him even that far away , and in a mindless vortex of wanting , she , who she knew for certain was not the clinging type , clung on to him . |
| 19 | If someone had asked him who she voted for , what the names of her women friends were , what she liked in life , he could n't have answered . |
| 20 | There was a curious burning in her mind ; she wanted to obliterate , by some frenzied act of destruction , everything she felt for him . |
| 21 | Lucenzo seemed to be making up his mind about her , and she knew intuitively that everything she longed for hung on his decision . |
| 22 | On her way to the house she stopped off in the Campo San Maurizio to see if Annunziata had everything she needed for the dinner she was preparing to welcome Comfort , and discovered that the English post had arrived with a letter from George Wilson . |
| 23 | She looked forward to his usual visit that evening , but he did not come , and it was Comfort who appeared at half-past nine to remake Julia 's bed and see that she had everything she needed for the night . |
| 24 | Preliminaries , it seemed clear , were not something she cared for . |
| 25 | It was strange — hard — to think about something she took for granted . |
| 26 | It 's not is it an old people 's home or is it something she paid for ? |
| 27 | But that 's the one she asked for were n't it ? |
| 28 | She fumbled for a handkerchief without success — and Elizabeth Mowbray handed her the capacious lace-edged one she wore for decoration at her girdle . |
| 29 | The one she wore for your homecoming . ’ |
| 30 | For Anna too , the only way out is the one she takes and although her story is one of great tragedy , it was one she chose for herself . |