Example sentences of "[noun sg] she [vb past] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she retired from the RCM in 1948 she went on to run the Violet Melchet Infant Welfare Centre near Sloane Square , a job she held for the next twenty years . |
| 2 | In the Ladies ' Singles , Jenny Binns is defending the title she won for the first time last year . |
| 3 | As the fire was crackling into life she headed for the small lavatory in the hall . |
| 4 | The next year she applied for the nursing course . |
| 5 | Hari closed her book with a snap of finality , the outstanding balance she owed for the French calf hung like a weight around her neck . |
| 6 | She was known to all in the French Quarter for her good looks , her own hard-luck story ( two marriages , two troubled kids , a problem with drink ) and the soft spot she had for the hard-luck stories of others , poets in particular . |
| 7 | When she heard the voice of Sam 's mother she realized for the first time that it was more than likely that her own mother would , during the course of the evening , make some reference to the dinner-party which , she had been led to believe , was taking place in Pam 's house . |