Example sentences of "she [vb past] [verb] [adv] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even though she tried to listen out for the sound of a returning car , the castle and the road leading up to it remained as silent as the grave . |
| 2 | She decided to head straight for the drawing-room at the back of the house , where she worked . |
| 3 | She offered to come down for the weekend to help , and Carolyn wanted her badly enough to hesitate before putting her off . |
| 4 | Mildred slid him carefully into her pocket and raced up the stairs to her room , where she transferred him to a small box with holes in the lid which she had prepared specially for the journey . |
| 5 | Nor , she was sure , Bert , whom she had seen yesterday for the first time as a potentially responsible comrade . |
| 6 | His mother always looked as if she had dressed up for the occasion , which indeed she had . |
| 7 | It was an ancient emotion for Blanche , calling her home from the wasteland of tension and anger she had tramped across for the past few months . |
| 8 | He had been a good friend to her and when she walked out on her parents she had made straight for the bar , looking for him . |
| 9 | The thick grey hair had been tinted a reddish brown , a process to which she had succumbed only for the last two years , having previously been free in expressing her opinion of those stupid women who aimed to camouflage their age by dyeing their hair . |
| 10 | The source says : ‘ She went on to say that she had done more for the Royal Family than any of its other members . |
| 11 | You would not have supposed it possible to aid the Communist cause by stripping , yet Gypsy Rose Lee was banned because years before she had spoken up for the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League . |
| 12 | She had arrived again for the week-end ; and much earlier , on Friday afternoon instead of evening , than Sara had expected . |
| 13 | Henrietta , tall for her age and spectacularly thin , stood by them in the bikini she had put on for the sunshine and the wand , hovering round the crowd , finally pointed at her . |