Example sentences of "[Wh det] she [vb past] for " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | She claimed she had never realised the significance of the tape , which she played for the first time ‘ weeks later ’ . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | At which she reached for a bottle of whisky called Old Rarity . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | Not until her mid-thirties did she find her taste change , and even then by chance , as good manners constrained her to eat what she had for so many years quite strenuously resisted . |
16 | When a sender judges her receiver 's schema to correspond to a significant degree with her own , she need only mention features which are not contained in it ( the time of getting up and what she had for breakfast , for example ) ; other features ( like getting out of bed and getting dressed ) will be assumed to be present by default , unless we are told otherwise . |
17 | Maybe he thought men , making up roughly half the population , would reckon that the poor , wretched girl , labelled so cruelly ‘ The Big ‘ Un ’ , got what she asked for , exactly what she deserved , when 13 soldiers indecently assaulted her . |
18 | All this mateyness not what she asked for . |
19 | ‘ But then Elizabeth wanted a challenge , it 's what she lived for . ’ |
20 | She simply did not know , although deep in her heart she feared that what she felt for Nicky Scott Wilson was not true love . |
21 | She looked at Peter , gravely answering the teasing of one of the lovers , and wondered if what she felt for him was the same quality of feeling that her parents had known and relied upon . |
22 | What she felt for David was not love but gratitude , with maybe a scattering of affection . |
23 | Innocent , virginal and as strictly moral as she was , she knew that what she felt for Lucenzo was so powerful and primeval that she would never resist him . |
24 | I wonder what she wore for the theatre date with David ? |
25 | He considered her good but unremarkable clothes , and wondered what she did for laughs . |
26 | She will have no idea what she did for me , nor for many others , but I still give thanks and a great cheer for the privilege of meeting that little grandmother from Lancashire . |
27 | Just think what she did for my midget . " |
28 | Do you know what she did for a living ? |
29 | ‘ I love Linda not for what she did for me but for who she is . |
30 | " She knew quite well it was n't worth what she paid for it . " |