Example sentences of "what she [vb past] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | All this mateyness not what she asked for . |
| 5 | ‘ But then Elizabeth wanted a challenge , it 's what she lived for . ’ |
| 6 | She simply did not know , although deep in her heart she feared that what she felt for Nicky Scott Wilson was not true love . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | What she felt for David was not love but gratitude , with maybe a scattering of affection . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I wonder what she wore for the theatre date with David ? |
| 11 | He considered her good but unremarkable clothes , and wondered what she did for laughs . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Just think what she did for my midget . " |
| 14 | Do you know what she did for a living ? |
| 15 | ‘ I love Linda not for what she did for me but for who she is . |
| 16 | " She knew quite well it was n't worth what she paid for it . " |
| 17 | And I know what she paid for that too . " |
| 18 | ‘ I knew she went to a certain museum but I did n't know where else she went , nor any of her sources , nor what she paid for things . |
| 19 | Otherwise how could the customer know she had got what she paid for ? |
| 20 | Continued to go about opening cupboards , fetching what she needed for making pastry . |
| 21 | When I asked her what she wanted for Christmas she said things that her seven-year-old brother Simon could have . |
| 22 | It was not quite what she envisaged for herself but it had the advantage of being cheap and it went some way towards satisfying Grace , who was convinced that London was a den of iniquity waiting to swallow up her unsuspecting daughter . |
| 23 | So I put Lianne 's name down and what she used for her age . |
| 24 | made a Lady , or made I mean she was given that title , or actually I 'm dead against the fact it was her husband who was given the title , erm but to abstract away from that at the moment , somebody who 's been in public service all their lives and who 's devoted much of their life to the cause of the people , I mean I realize that an awful lot of people would think that Margaret Thatcher has n't done that , but let's say that , for the sake of the argument , that at least that 's what she intended for the time being |
| 25 | The undeniable need to establish a personality clear of the shadow of Mrs Thatcher was confounded with the mistaken urge to repudiate what she stood for . |
| 26 | At the front of Laura 's mind constantly was the realization that these shops bore her name and everything in them must therefore reflect what she stood for . |