Example sentences of "she [verb] [verb] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Strong political statements commenting on Ireland where she has lived for the past two years . |
| 2 | The idea is that every person has another person ( or sometimes a group or committee ) to whom he or she has to account for the proper discharge of responsibilities . |
| 3 | CLAIRE , as pale as the winter daybreak she will never see again , sits on her bed wheezing through the oxygen mask she has worn for the past three months . |
| 4 | When she tells us that she left for work , we assume that she has dressed for the outside world . |
| 5 | At this stage , perhaps because she is unfamiliar with how the words look , she has substituted for the correct letters something which sounds all right but is inaccurate . |
| 6 | Well I think she 's done all she needs to do for a little while . |
| 7 | She 'd headed for the historical centre and spanned out , taking in the churches and palaces and the Lonja — the commodity exchange which housed , among other historical interests , the fine arts museum . |
| 8 | Just for a few seconds she 'd fallen for the powerful aphrodisiac of music , her senses sharpened by aquavit and the potent charisma of a man who would stop at nothing to achieve his desired ends ! |
| 9 | She 'd asked for a terse put-down , she reflected with some justice . |
| 10 | Barbara was bored with the bob she 'd had for the past four years and was ready for a complete change . |
| 11 | 20–6 Mrs McIver , wife of the Moderator , asked to be relieved of the duty of leader of praise which she had undertaken for the past two years . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | After all , she had suspected for a long time now that he was aware of the effect he sometimes had on her . |
| 16 | All she wanted to do was yield to it , because it was what she had wanted for the whole time she had been with him . |
| 17 | One contained the proofs of an article she had written for an academic journal ; she scanned the contents of the envelope briefly and pinned it to her noticeboard to be dealt with on her return from Oxford . |
| 18 | She had hoped for a new freedom , but had found a trap . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Diana warmed to her theme as the letter , written on Kensington Palace notepaper , continued with her favourite lament — the work she had done for the Royal Family . |
| 21 | She consulted her own solicitor , and wrote back to Prince Philip in the same angry terms , stressing the work she had done for the Royal Family . |
| 22 | It seemed to Tallis that she had smouldered for a long time before finally the fire had taken hold . |
| 23 | It was so hot outside that she had settled for an orange cheesecloth caftan , which she 'd jacked in with a belt of linked gold hippos . |
| 24 | She had known for a long time now . |
| 25 | She had worked for a bent company running credit checks on people , had temped for an employment agency , a bank , and as a telephonist . |
| 26 | As she had worked for the civil service previously , she applied and was sent a booklet which specified an age range for applicants of 17 ½ to 28 years . |
| 27 | She had to pay for the lavish colour brochure ( the details of which contained many mistakes ) , she provided the historical background and ran her feet off showing people over : all they did was make appointments ( underpaid girls did that ) and yet she had to pay them thousands . |
| 28 | She continues to do for the late Canon in a manner of speaking . ’ |
| 29 | She 's fallen , she 's fallen for the grey woman . |
| 30 | She refused to pose for a happy family picture with Jamie and two-month-old George , saying : |