Example sentences of "[indef pn] she [vb past] for " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Maybe it was somethin' she had for breakfast , ’ Sonny said .
2 There was a curious burning in her mind ; she wanted to obliterate , by some frenzied act of destruction , everything she felt for him .
3 Lucenzo seemed to be making up his mind about her , and she knew intuitively that everything she longed for hung on his decision .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 Preliminaries , it seemed clear , were not something she cared for .
7 It was strange — hard — to think about something she took for granted .
8 It 's not is it an old people 's home or is it something she paid for ?
9 But that 's the one she asked for were n't it ?
10 She fumbled for a handkerchief without success — and Elizabeth Mowbray handed her the capacious lace-edged one she wore for decoration at her girdle .
11 The one she wore for your homecoming . ’
12 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 .
13 ‘ It was one she designed for our château at Fabien 's request .
14 If in a particular language a woman referred to a large number of men other than her husband by the same term as the one she used for her husband , this implied , for Morgan and Engels , that in an earlier stage of this system , a woman would have been wife to all of these men .
15 The only brush she possessed was the one she used for her make-up , and the only pencil the one she had found lying about on the sideboard .
16 True , giving him pride of place entails an insulting belittlement of her passionate romantic friendships with women ; not least the one she maintained for more than thirty years with Sue Gilbert , her dearest Other , and eventually — bitter blow — her sister-in-law .
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