Example sentences of "she [verb] for [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Abandoning an untouched plate of food , she headed for the nearest door . |
| 32 | RUNAWAY teenager Nicola Rogers told today why she headed for the bright lights of Blackpool after leaving her home 100 miles away four days ago . |
| 33 | ‘ She suffered for a long time and although her father never knew about it , her mother did . ’ |
| 34 | She darted for the open doors and down the stone step to the garden . |
| 35 | She claimed she had never realised the significance of the tape , which she played for the first time ‘ weeks later ’ . |
| 36 | She says for every ten acres used for a house 30 acres actually get used up in building pavements roads and so on . |
| 37 | She noticed for the first time that he was wearing a pair of white , glowing incongruously in the twilight . |
| 38 | She noticed for the first time that they had stopped , and looking round , discovered that they were outside the house . |
| 39 | She noticed for the first time that he had a slight limp . |
| 40 | She changed into her shorts — Fen had donned his before they went shopping — and , remembering Fen 's earlier insinuations , she opted for a baggy T-shirt which , she hoped , made her figure as sexless as a boy 's , then went aloft , tense , wary , uncertain of her reception . |
| 41 | ‘ Perhaps an escort , ’ hinted Isabel , worried that Matilda was going to suggest she wait for the good father 's return . |
| 42 | She drove for a few minutes in silence , then she said , ‘ You know what I 'm going back to ? ’ |
| 43 | ‘ She wakes for a few minutes and then is unconscious for several hours , ’ said a police spokesman . |
| 44 | In her bedroom now , sipping her whisky , she acknowledged for the first time in her life that if she had to make a list of the happy times , it would properly have to include the hours she had spent with Graham in his garden . |
| 45 | As she hunted for a worn pair of leather gloves in the pocket of her pelisse , she did not appear to notice that she had been pulled closely in to the gentleman for a few brief seconds . |
| 46 | For instance , when Paris designated the wanton APHRODITE as the most beautiful of the goddesses , Hera 's morals were affronted and she arranged for the Trojan Wars to occur as just recrimination for the slight . |
| 47 | When she attends for the first time , she assesses the patient : if he is out of bed and eating his breakfast , for instance , she observes whether he can feed himself , or whether he needs help ; whether he has perceptual problems ; how good his balance is while he is sitting ; whether he is limited by spasticity ; what his posture is like ; and then whether he is capable of standing and walking . |
| 48 | For instance : ‘ You should lose weight ’ , ‘ You should n't be so inarticulate at work ’ , ‘ You should n't pursue money as a goal ’ , ‘ You should be kinder to your mother when she phones for a long chat . ’ |
| 49 | Hari closed her book with a snap of finality , the outstanding balance she owed for the French calf hung like a weight around her neck . |
| 50 | She walked for a long time , while the feeling of the streets changed to night . |
| 51 | She walked for a long time , past hundreds of doors . |
| 52 | No , no ; that sounded too much like the Bible , so she plumped for the simple way and finished , ‘ He has given her a baby . ’ |
| 53 | From 1915 to 1922 she was chairman of the Women 's International League for Peace , which aimed to harness feminism to the peace movement ; and throughout World War I she campaigned for a negotiated peace and the establishment of an international peace-keeping organization . |
| 54 | The bottom half of the page is how much she gets for every ten pounds she 's got to spend , but before we find out she 's got to spend , what we 've got to do is take off the policy fee . |
| 55 | She calls for a national policy for dealing with runaway children , and more government funding . |
| 56 | As she descended the stairs , she appreciated for the first time how far she had fallen from grace . |
| 57 | She chatted for a long time to a friendly Madame Pompadour , who professed to love Wales and bombarded her with intimate questions . |
| 58 | She exhibited for the first time in spring 1900 at the New English Art Club , an organization with strong Slade connections , and continued to show there twice yearly until 1903 . |
| 59 | She had for a while become a Monotype operator , on one of the " women 's machines " , and also remembers " trying to do imposition " and doing a little display work in one mainly jobbing firm where she worked for a short time . |
| 60 | Michael went with her to meetings and joined her when she worked for the Liberal cause because it was the next best thing to Labour . |