Example sentences of "[adv] she [verb] for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Impatiently she reached for a tissue and wiped it off . |
| 2 | So she made for the orchard first . |
| 3 | So she waited for the summons to the prince 's presence , and went with a demure step and a high heart when she was called at last . |
| 4 | The bedroom was on the same level as the terrace , the small sitting-room and the kitchen , and so she waited for the sound of another door or footsteps on the stone staircase down to the entrance hall . |
| 5 | Desperately she sought for an excuse , anything not to have to face his mother 's frosty manner again , but before she could think of anything he said , ‘ On second thoughts , I have a better idea . ’ |
| 6 | Instinctively she headed for the fence at the far end , wanting to be as far away from the house as possible . |
| 7 | Quickly she reached for the doorknob , only to find her frantic effort useless as Rune 's hand slammed against the door , holding it fast . |
| 8 | She left elementary school at fourteen to take a job filling seed packets for five shillings a week ; later she worked for a draper and subsequently for the Co-op , where she joined the union movement of which she was to be a lifelong member . |
| 9 | and er I said to her do you miss London ? , and she said well she does for the theatre and that because they were only a short tube ride away from the West from the West End theatre 's and she said there 's more on in Poole here than there is in Bournemouth in terms of plays and |
| 10 | Why had n't she arranged for the house to be sold so that Fabien de Rochefort could at least be repaid to some extent ? |
| 11 | How she longed for the excitement of blasting away slimy aliens . |
| 12 | Alison Berry describes how she cared for a patient with a difficult leg wound in the community |
| 13 | She do n't go to work no more , and sometimes she cries for no reason . |
| 14 | Sometimes she longed for the sound of traffic and street cries . |
| 15 | Then she went for a walk . |
| 16 | Then she thought for a moment . |
| 17 | Her output was not impressive but at least she succeeded for a couple of hours in driving the memory of Sybil 's murder into the back of her mind . |
| 18 | Silently she waited for the lion 's roar . |
| 19 | Instead she called for a kind of fiction that would record the atoms of experience ‘ as they fall upon the mind , in the order in which they fall ’ , that would ‘ trace the pattern , however disconnected and incoherent in appearance , which each sight or incident scores upon the consciousness ’ . |
| 20 | Farrelly met Sinead when she advertised for a band in an Irish music paper . |
| 21 | Jo Durie , Britain 's No. 1 ranked player , delivered an honest assessment of the needs of aspiring young tennis champions when she called for the pressure to be taken off youngsters , particularly those between the crucial ages of 10–14 . |
| 22 | She was lifted out of her perch above the engine and made for the customs shed where she asked for a mirror so that she could restore order to her wrecked coiffure before she went into Paris . |
| 23 | Lulu Freston takes her pugs to the House of Commons where she works for an MP . |