Example sentences of "she was [verb] for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was treated for a cut on her head but the injury was not serious and she is continuing her holiday in Cyprus . |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | She was looking for a pensioner but , you were n't in the right street . |
| 4 | My wife , Joyce also came close and peered , but in her case I believe she was looking for a miracle . |
| 5 | So basically she was looking for a job . |
| 6 | Having signed on and said that she was looking for a job as a research scientist , she was advised that she should think again . |
| 7 | The thieves cut her telephone wires and took the money she was saving for a cooker . |
| 8 | She was gone for a quarter of an hour , then , like a ghost , she reappeared in the downstairs room and sat down . |
| 9 | I do n't think she was fooled for a minute by Werewolf 's professional decoy act , but she went along with it . |
| 10 | 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 ! |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Later in the morning we were able to confirm that she was heading for a port in Southern Ireland . |
| 13 | And , oh I did n't tell you this either that she was going for a promotion ! |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Lady Eleanor replied she was going for a walk behind the church . ’ |
| 16 | She found she was bursting for a pee , but was determined not to repeat Estelle 's performance . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | She was blamed for a crash which killed bride-to-be Teresa Power , 26 . |
| 19 | 5 years ago she was fined for a breach of planning laws after years of complaints about noise . |
| 20 | Occasionally she was caught for a fraction of a second with images of a pig 's cot wall with a black cat on it or a square stone chapel silhouetted in Sunday dusk , but these were inconsequential visitations , debris from the past uncovered by the rhythms of a particular song or the set and angle of a passing face , a passing mood . |
| 21 | She was bought for a consortium of Arabs and will stay in training next season . |
| 22 | He could see she was preparing for a party . |
| 23 | He said , ‘ She was asking for a divorce . ’ |
| 24 | She was making for a hollow at the base of a large tree . |
| 25 | She was dying for a coffee but some streak of perversity made her answer briskly , ‘ Neither , thank you . |
| 26 | She sent them sweets sometimes , and several pairs of red socks she had knitted while she was waiting for a call at the ambulance station , and a photograph of herself in her uniform with a tin hat on . |
| 27 | It dawned on Folly that she was waiting for a tip and , gathering what she could of her wits , she struggled out of bed to delve in her handbag . |
| 28 | She was waiting for a boat , you understand . |
| 29 | She was to apply for a job in a certain firm , with national importance . |
| 30 | ‘ She used to say she was coming for a day and stay a week , ’ Rosemary said . |