Example sentences of "[coord] she [vb past] it for " in BNC.

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1	Short of battering him on the head with a blunt instrument — the thought held immense appeal , and she savoured it for a long moment , before reluctantly putting it on hold — she could n't come up with any way out of the present situation .
2	And she knew it for a fact when he murmured smoothly , ‘ I think I might find it agreeable . ’
3	As with the girl who died earlier in the year , this beaker of solution was in her bedroom and she mistook it for a bedtime drink .
4	When she began to unbutton his shirt he stood , paralysed , staring at the slack flesh round her stomach , he shivered and she took it for excitement ; he had dreamed about this , waiting for the moment when he would instinctively know what to do , would take control , but instead she was rubbing against him with a cool professionalism that unnerved him .
5	Mm , well Ann and she got it for thirty two and a half !
6	To her , the building was endlessly exciting , and she liked it for all the reasons that most people would specify as particular causes for dislike .
7	The photo was in there , too , but she left it for the time being .
8	I used to go and fetch the , the butter from do n't bring margarine my father used to say we put better stuff on our machines so er I used to go to for my father kept foul , I used to fetch a peck of , bushel of this and a bushel of , you know all the various things that , bran and stuff for the foul yes , yes and I believe a lady , she has , she 's only recently died and but she kept it for a long long while Elsie her name was .
9	She had not yet even recognised what it was , but she knew it for better worth than she had ever yet been given .
10	Ruth saw at once that her grandfather was not in the room , but she took it for granted that by some miracle he had improved enough to get upstairs and was resting in bed .
11	’ But she bought it for me and it 's brilliant .

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