Example sentences of "she [vb past] [adj] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | She fell asleep for a short time but it was about 3am that Mr and Mrs Phillips noticed she was not breathing , ’ said Mr Goldring . |
2 | She lay awake for a long time , looking at a pattern of moonlight on the stone floor of the bedroom and listening to the distant complaints of the chained dog she now knew to belong to Buck Kettering . |
3 | That night she lay awake for a long time , thinking first of her father , recalling many happy childhood memories and wishing fervently , as she had so many times before , that he had not left her so soon . |
4 | She lay awake for a long time that night , going over the conversation with her mother , trying to work out what she should say to Leo , and she rehearsed so many and varied conversations that she thought she 'd go mad . |
5 | She stayed awake for a long time wondering uneasily whether cruelty was a natural part of her character , or whether its expression was merely an aspect of growing up . |
6 | She stood still for a long moment that seemed to the others to grow into an age . |
7 | She sat still for a full five minutes , then stood up brusquely . |
8 | She sat immobile for a long time , staring into the embers of the dying fire , her thoughts so chaotic that she could hardly make any order out of them . |