Example sentences of "[noun sg] she had [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arthur Leopold of County Cork had taken the picture , and the first time Ellie had tiptoed into the bedroom she had stood for a long time staring at the photograph , because it was the first time she had ever seen the likeness of her dead mother . |
| 2 | Diana warmed to her theme as the letter , written on Kensington Palace notepaper , continued with her favourite lament — the work she had done for the Royal Family . |
| 3 | She consulted her own solicitor , and wrote back to Prince Philip in the same angry terms , stressing the work she had done for the Royal Family . |
| 4 | One contained the proofs of an article she had written for an academic journal ; she scanned the contents of the envelope briefly and pinned it to her noticeboard to be dealt with on her return from Oxford . |
| 5 | She was shocked herself , but that shock was muted by the greater shock of realising that even now she was not certain that she would keep the appointment she had made for the morning . |
| 6 | One Saturday morning she had waited for an hour and a half outside the dentist 's where he had gone to have a troublesome tooth fixed . |
| 7 | Come and tell me about this morning , ’ He looked round for Catherine to discover that with admirable good sense she had asked for the facilities of the house , and was being issued with soap and hand-towels by Miss Williams . |
| 8 | It was wispy and very feminine , a dress she had bought for a party that had in the event been missed by at least three months . |
| 9 | Thieves made off with a cot mattress , pram and potty she had bought for the baby . |
| 10 | The tablecloth needed no stones to hold it down and all the plastic bags waited for Betty to put them in the master plastic bag she had brought for the purpose . |
| 11 | When at 7.30 am on Saturday 8 May I saw Marion Reid sitting in brilliant sunshine on the pavement , beside the doll 's house she had made for the Sale , waiting for the Church doors to be opened , I knew that all would be well . |
| 12 | During the headmistress 's speech she had realized for the first time how little she knew of the world that lay beyond the school gates . |