Example sentences of "she [vb past] [verb] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consequently she 'd prepared for the worst while hoping for the best . |
| 2 | She 'd headed for the historical centre and spanned out , taking in the churches and palaces and the Lonja — the commodity exchange which housed , among other historical interests , the fine arts museum . |
| 3 | Just for a few seconds she 'd fallen for the powerful aphrodisiac of music , her senses sharpened by aquavit and the potent charisma of a man who would stop at nothing to achieve his desired ends ! |
| 4 | It was an astonishing thing for a wife to say about her husband to a woman she 'd met for the first time . |
| 5 | Barbara was bored with the bob she 'd had for the past four years and was ready for a complete change . |
| 6 | The exchange between them had been painful , but there was something so honest and open about it that she felt freed for the first time in months from her painful awareness of him as a man . |
| 7 | Apparently modifying her stance of late 1989 , when she had warned against any over-hasty German reunification , Thatcher now took a less negative line , and on March 29 she appeared to concede for the first time that changes in Eastern Europe meant that " some reductions " could be made to the British Army of the Rhine in West Germany . |
| 8 | 20–6 Mrs McIver , wife of the Moderator , asked to be relieved of the duty of leader of praise which she had undertaken for the past two years . |
| 9 | That evening , as her mother had stood at the kitchen door with the shadow of future old age lurking behind her , she had felt for the first time what it was to be a grown-up , what it was that she was missing in the never-never land of Fenna 's spell . |
| 10 | Guilt and exhaustion is what she had felt for the next year . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | All she wanted to do was yield to it , because it was what she had wanted for the whole time she had been with him . |
| 13 | Ward J. took evidence on the telephone from Dr. F. , who had spoken to Miss T. in the maternity unit after she had stated for the second time that she did not wish to have a blood transfusion and before she had signed the refusal form . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | As she had worked for the civil service previously , she applied and was sent a booklet which specified an age range for applicants of 17 ½ to 28 years . |
| 17 | She had to pay for the lavish colour brochure ( the details of which contained many mistakes ) , she provided the historical background and ran her feet off showing people over : all they did was make appointments ( underpaid girls did that ) and yet she had to pay them thousands . |
| 18 | I cried after the girl had gone and he seeing my distress and I explaining I feared your anger he put his arms around my neck and comforted me and said he was sure his real mother could not but love her sister and believe she had acted for the best . |