Example sentences of "she for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , I was in her for thirteen months . |
| 2 | He says yes , I 've had her for thirteen years , but I 'm building another one , also with a steam engine . |
| 3 | The geography of Boiotia might to a shallow observer seem to suit her for naval hegemony . |
| 4 | He waited with her for eight hours at the Northampton car park . |
| 5 | He waited with her for eight hours at the Northampton car park . |
| 6 | We 've had her for eight years . ’ |
| 7 | She 's got a dress a green dress for her for Golden Wedding Anniversary . |
| 8 | I have n't seen her for bloody ages . |
| 9 | It seems that she had fallen in love with him but she " did n't know where I was at all " with him ; he would be most affectionate towards her and then , for no apparent reason , seemed to avoid her for protracted periods . |
| 10 | And I said yes , I said you know what Sue can be like , you 've been with her for twelve months and you 're daft enough |
| 11 | He glared down at her for eternal seconds and then his mouth descended and Robyn felt the anger and fire , still there , but focused this time in the searing heat of his kiss , the grip of his embrace , the rough glory as his hands roamed her body , conjuring desire and need out of nowhere , moulding her to him , showing Robyn just how much she wanted him , how much he desired her . |
| 12 | As she flew up to her room , she thought her father might have killed her for that speech . |
| 13 | She could easily have slapped her for that remark , which was silly really , but nonetheless that was how she felt . |
| 14 | If he 'd had his hands on her for one minute , he could have given her something to remember him by ; if only he 'd spat a single obscenity into her ear before running off , it would have been something . |
| 15 | She went with Breeze to call upon Mrs Rossitter , who was so charmed with her voice that she engaged her on the spot to read to her for two hours every day . |
| 16 | For Small , getting out the magazine that had absorbed her for two years was the commitment , not this eccentric lurch into the unknown . |
| 17 | Hagans said he 'd known her for two years and they 'd met by appointment . |
| 18 | And now he was stuck with her for two months . |
| 19 | I 've done without her for two months now . ’ |
| 20 | So instead , a confident horseperson was engaged to do battle with Honey , but after riding her for two weeks Honey 's behaviour was worse . |
| 21 | I have n't seen her for two weeks now . |
| 22 | She worked for her for eighteen years . |
| 23 | Even now he had learnt that Pete Foster , the man being investigated for murder and fraud in the Docks , a hard man , was terrified of his old mother and had kept his successful career in crime hidden from her for sixteen years . |
| 24 | I never asked her for total commitment ( after all , if I were into monogamy would I have done such a good job of dangling that little Limnititzker tsatskeleh in front of her nose ? ) , but I would have hoped the woman would stand by me in a crisis . |
| 25 | I really missed her if I did n't see her for six hours . |
| 26 | In a period of ten months in 1764 – 5 the Exeter Mercury reported the case of a man , wife , son and daughter-in-law jointly indicted for the murder of a girl apprentice by " beating and barbarously using her " ; the ill-treatment of a thirteen-year-old girl by a master and mistress who branded her on her buttocks , chained her for six hours to an apple tree and then beat her severely before making her work ; and a third case , which shows up the vulnerability to sexual abuse of children bound out by the parish , in which a man was sentenced for castrating two eight-year-old boys . |
| 27 | He 's lived with her for six years but can only describe her job vaguely , as ‘ something in administration ’ . |
| 28 | I went to my G P , having avoided her for fifteen years , having getting the old story every time you went well you must go on a diet ! |
| 29 | Because there was nothing in Clara 's past that would seem to have fitted her for such recognitions : she was not bred to it . |
| 30 | read her , read her for new signs , |