Example sentences of "she [vb past] [to-vb] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , this morning Beth Christie was brighter than usual ; she planned to shop for the dinner party she was holding later in the week . |
| 2 | Prunskiene , who had resigned as Prime Minister on Jan. 8 , 1991 [ see p. 37944 ] , consistently denied the accusations ( made in April — see p. 38880 ) , claiming that a document bearing her signature in which she agreed to work for the KGB was a forgery and that the trial was politically motivated . |
| 3 | She knelt to pray for the soul of God 's servant Hereward , his wife and all who worshipped there . |
| 4 | When she came to pay for the bill , she found that it had already been paid . |
| 5 | But the first thing I 've got to say to you here and now is you 're no more capable of keeping a wife than of keeping a — ’ she seemed to search for the word , then brought out , ‘ rabbit . |
| 6 | She turned to sign for the gear , and ran her eye over the other signatures on the page . |
| 7 | My mother was so dazzled she never even thought to question him about his job , but she grew to live for the visits he made daily to the shop . |
| 8 | He had assumed , discriminated , made her feel as if she had to apologise for the way she lived her life , when he knew nothing , nothing of her circumstances or her reasons . |
| 9 | Because she had to provide for the Barons and for her other gentleman who was still with her she was obliged to go out daily to market and this quite ordinary transaction restored some of her spirits . |
| 10 | No , and she had to pay for the petrol . |
| 11 | She wanted to weep for the ecstasy she would never know now . |
| 12 | Once she was there it would require a tremendous effort of will to get her back to London — except that she could not leave Holly in charge for more than a day ; and except that she was avid for information about the murder inquiry ; and except that there were any number of good stories she wanted to pursue for the column and any amount of private gossip she wanted to hear . |
| 13 | ‘ She came home from Guides one day and said she wanted to try for the Duke of Edinburgh Bronze Award , ’ recalls Rosemarie . |