Example sentences of "which she [vb past] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I shall ride up on the Norton , ’ he told her , and there was a difficult pause in which she waited for him to suggest she should come up to Liverpool in the New Year . |
| 2 | The child was entirely Lassiter in appearance so that , while she was pleased on Stephen 's behalf , Tamar could not feel the deep love which she had for her daughter . |
| 3 | Robyn , doing her best to ignore the almost overwhelming feeling of pure dislike which she had for this man , glanced at the ornate carriage clock beside the bed , registered the time slowly and looked aghast . |
| 4 | She was all set to paint , but when Vitor slid his hands into his trouser pockets and , with jacket flaring back , strolled across to inspect the items which she had for sale , her gaze compulsively followed him . |
| 5 | She claimed she had never realised the significance of the tape , which she played for the first time ‘ weeks later ’ . |
| 6 | Only time will tell but at least it is a step in the right direction and certainly in line with the views expressed by Mary Joe Fernandez in a splendidly reasoned and cogent article which she wrote for The New York Times at the end of last year . |
| 7 | Her fingers were sliding over the satiny warmth of her skin , and in a sweet intimate flash of reminder , or of warning , her body ( her secret breathing body which she ignored for nearly all of her time , trying to forget it ) came to life and spoke to her . |
| 8 | You refer to her stately homes , which she cared for deeply , but more importantly round these homes she knew by name a huge number of tenants , workers and friends who always received a warm and cheerful word , and many enjoyed great generosity from her and her husband . |
| 9 | At which she reached for a bottle of whisky called Old Rarity . |
| 10 | Her best known books , though , were Royal Service and Royal Secrets , which she ghost-wrote for the Prince of Wales 's former valet , Stephen Barry . |
| 11 | ‘ Personal self-denial for the good of others was the first important lesson Annie learned , ’ says Taylor , ‘ and it was a principle by which she stood for the rest of her life . ’ |
| 12 | The garden depicted with such passionate intensity is based on one at Maytham Hall , a house in Kent which she rented for many years and last visited in 1907 . |
| 13 | She pinched herself , but might as well have been pinching the padded plastic of the bed on which she sat for all the sensation she felt . |
| 14 | In May 1936 , believing the emperor of Ethiopia 's cause to be a just one , she began a weekly journal , New Times and Ethiopia News , which she edited for twenty years . |