Example sentences of "[conj] she [vb past] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had for a while become a Monotype operator , on one of the " women 's machines " , and also remembers " trying to do imposition " and doing a little display work in one mainly jobbing firm where she worked for a short time . |
| 2 | Her heart was thumping so loudly that she wondered for a fleeting second whether Scott could hear it . |
| 3 | She felt more alive than she had for a long time . |
| 4 | Rosemary had been to Venice and seen the original bridge , and she enthused for a long time on the beauties of that city and how much she would like to go there again after the war was over . |
| 5 | He said that on her birthday he asked her what she had learnt from life , and she thought for a long time , and then said : ‘ That people are morally the same , and intellectually different . ’ |
| 6 | Melissa found its clean , uncluttered lines at once calming and uplifting , and she stood for a few moments just inside the door , absorbing the tranquil atmosphere . |
| 7 | He looked expectantly at Sarah , but she sat for a few seconds before speaking . |
| 8 | I had not realized how close they had been but she grieved for a long while for the grandmother to whom she had felt close and in whom she had found it easy to confide . |
| 9 | And then , because she could n't bear to quarrel with him the night before she left for a new life , she said , ‘ I 'm wearing your mother 's brooch , Fran . |
| 10 | She had repaid £35 in seven monthly instalments of £5 , when she asked for a second loan . |
| 11 | As she hunted for a worn pair of leather gloves in the pocket of her pelisse , she did not appear to notice that she had been pulled closely in to the gentleman for a few brief seconds . |
| 12 | The woman was attacked in the early hours of Wednesday at an isolated station at Mexborough , South Yorks , as she waited for a late train home . |
| 13 | She barely noticed it at all as she stood for a few seconds in front of the mirror and pulled the comb through her hair . |
| 14 | She might have guessed that as soon as she tried for a little peace and quiet the whole place would be inundated with callers . |