Example sentences of "she was [v-ing] for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was in pain , but she was taking it out on a complicated Fair Isle jumper that she was knitting for some nephew in Canada . |
| 2 | Fabia arose on Sunday morning , thought of Cara , of Barney , and of the man she had never yet met but , with guilty conscience , hoped to , and then attempted to shed her anxieties by remembering that , with Františkovy Láznë being less than twenty-five miles away , Františkovy Láznë was where she was heading for that day . |
| 3 | Did he think she was lying for some reason ? |
| 4 | She was longing for some peace and privacy , believing that now the wedding was over she would slip back into relative obscurity . |
| 5 | But immigration officials said no , believing she was coming for paid work . |