Example sentences of "she [verb] [pron] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | and er , they sent her er bouquet and a card for her birthday , she was seventy , and she wrote a letter back and she passed it around for every body to read , and there was , in her writing , which was very clear |
| 2 | I never , it 's your fault she driving it around for five months with no tax . |
| 3 | I thought she but I 'm trying to think what she phoned me up for . |
| 4 | ‘ She beats us up for kicks . ’ |
| 5 | Yeah , yeah well that 's what Pauline does sometimes when I go up she has them in for friendship , a bit of company in n it ? |
| 6 | She booked herself in for the works as she put it — a facial and full-body massage . |
| 7 | She told me off for doing the wrong colour there . |
| 8 | She told herself off for not being attentive enough , for not finding the right words to encourage him to go on . |
| 9 | While she measured him up for size , her fingers trailed the tape measure precariously into his crotch . |
| 10 | see through me with a voice of rival , rival calm when she called me in for tea , have a go |
| 11 | She 's as generous as Robin Hood and all his merry men , she 's as kind as Florence Nightingale and then as kind again , right super mum she has x-ray vision , she can see through me , with a voice or rival calm when she called me in for tea , |
| 12 | She read the Catechism in bed at night , occasionally sighing ; she would turn towards Bernard and her long hair — she wore it up for work , half-down in the home , fully down in bed — would fall over her face , over her white shoulder . |
| 13 | Each time I went to Bristol , she took me out for tea on her own , or with a girlfriend . |
| 14 | She got , and hated , a job in a fruit pulpers in Covent Garden , and would drop in at lunchtimes , and one day , in the absence of anyone else competent to run the switchboard , she took it over for an hour . |
| 15 | She took herself off for long walks to ponder in the ice and wind and snow . |
| 16 | She spelled it out for Loretta . |
| 17 | She spent a good deal on the house ; well , it was his house , she kept it up for him , even afterwards . |
| 18 | She spun it out for years . ’ |
| 19 | She says to tell you she 's seen Princess Di 's wedding dress in a Coney Island store front and should she check it out for you ? ’ |
| 20 | It was Mrs Williams she had it in for . ’ |
| 21 | In desperation she dragged him out for a stroll on the Heath . |
| 22 | She , however , was on duty throughout , and she set us up for the KGB photographers . |
| 23 | Withdrawing one hand from behind her back , she held it up for inspection . |
| 24 | See , ’ she held it up for his inspection . |
| 25 | She held it out for me to see . |
| 26 | The Queen obviously has a sense of humour , as was evident from her hamming it up for the cameras . |
| 27 | Let her work it through for herself . |
| 28 | Could you go round and ask her to let us in for me please ? |