Example sentences of "she have [vb pp] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd asked for a terse put-down , she reflected with some justice . |
| 2 | He managed to spend the odd hour alone with Grace , who told him she had fallen for a Welsh corporal who had stood on a land-mine and ended up blind in one eye . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It was true also that she gave English lessons and that she had applied for a full-time job as an English teacher in a small private school . |
| 5 | After all , she had suspected for a long time now that he was aware of the effect he sometimes had on her . |
| 6 | She had hoped for a new freedom , but had found a trap . |
| 7 | But Winnie , in all , though glad he was sick , that he had not jilted her , would have much preferred a broken leg — she had hoped for a broken leg — than the way he was , like those newsreel horrors : Hitler 's Jews , like something out of Belsen . |
| 8 | It seemed to Tallis that she had smouldered for a long time before finally the fire had taken hold . |
| 9 | She had known for a long time now . |
| 10 | She had worked for a bent company running credit checks on people , had temped for an employment agency , a bank , and as a telephonist . |
| 11 | Although aware he was an android , she had thought for a few seconds before removing her clothes . |
| 12 | She hoped it would throw Maurin off guard , persuade him she had come for a little of his flirtatious conversation at the least , a few more questions about Durance and Sabine Jourdain at the most . |
| 13 | The couple 's apparent reconciliation will have done little to lessen Princess Diana 's anger at the knowledge that the man who once told her he loved her has fallen for a beautiful woman , 10 years younger than herself . |