Example sentences of "she [be] [verb] for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had she been used for a purpose other than the stated one ? |
| 2 | So what I did is I writ thirty plus thirty four , adding up to sixty four and she jumped up and she 's grabbing thing off table and she had hold of the screwdriver and I says to Linda thought she was gon na stab me with screwdriver and she were n't , she were looking for a pencil so she could rub it out , well she could n't and she found this pencil and she scribbled thirty four out . |
| 3 | So she jumped up , grabbed the pencil and everything , she got a screwdriver first , I thought she were gon na stab me with screwdriver and she were looking for a pencil |
| 4 | Sounds like she 's looking for a holiday . |
| 5 | Shirley Armitage does n't give up easily and when it comes to vital care for her elderly mother , she 's prepared for a battle . |
| 6 | So she 's going for a day there . |
| 7 | She 's going for a walk . |
| 8 | She 's longing for a chat . |
| 9 | She is looking for a dress for me and she is waiting to comb my hair , and she has the look on her face that she has when she guts the chickens . |
| 10 | Aha , the textbooks reply , you 're missing the point : what the girl is doing is seeking a replacement for the security that was roughly torn from her ; she is looking for a father who wo n't desert her . |
| 11 | She is studying for a degree , ’ he said . |
| 12 | ‘ I fear my cousin will never relinquish her claim , since she is fighting for a position that she considers to be her son 's heritage as well as her own . ’ |
| 13 | She was treated for a cut on her head but the injury was not serious and she is continuing her holiday in Cyprus . |
| 14 | Precisely who it was she was using for a role model became clear as a middle-aged lady , admirably slim in well-cut jodhpurs , erupted from some inner fortress to enquire , in tones that carried effortlessly across the yard , precisely why Caroline had failed to run up her stirrups , how long had she been riding ? |
| 15 | She was looking for a pensioner but , you were n't in the right street . |
| 16 | My wife , Joyce also came close and peered , but in her case I believe she was looking for a miracle . |
| 17 | So basically she was looking for a job . |
| 18 | Having signed on and said that she was looking for a job as a research scientist , she was advised that she should think again . |
| 19 | The thieves cut her telephone wires and took the money she was saving for a cooker . |
| 20 | She was gone for a quarter of an hour , then , like a ghost , she reappeared in the downstairs room and sat down . |
| 21 | I do n't think she was fooled for a minute by Werewolf 's professional decoy act , but she went along with it . |
| 22 | As she assumed her drunken pose and shambled towards the centre of the stage , she was deafened for a moment by the clapping and the shouting ; and different names came to her ears , all meant for her : ‘ Good old Lemon ! |
| 23 | She breezed on by , presumably expecting him to follow ; she was heading for a side-entrance to the house that was reached through an overgrown kitchen garden . |
| 24 | Later in the morning we were able to confirm that she was heading for a port in Southern Ireland . |
| 25 | And , oh I did n't tell you this either that she was going for a promotion ! |
| 26 | She was often offered lifts , but when she said , thank you , but she was going for a walk , a pitying expression spread over the faces of the drivers . |
| 27 | Lady Eleanor replied she was going for a walk behind the church . ’ |
| 28 | She found she was bursting for a pee , but was determined not to repeat Estelle 's performance . |
| 29 | She was longing for a drink — some of her emergency ration of scotch — but she did not see how she could have one herself without also offering one to her visitor , something she had no intention of doing . |
| 30 | She was blamed for a crash which killed bride-to-be Teresa Power , 26 . |