Example sentences of "she [vb past] [verb] for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She planned to stay for a couple of days in the Arts Club in Edinburgh , as she belonged to a London club that had a reciprocal arrangement . |
| 2 | She pretended to think for a moment . |
| 3 | He pulled at his Mum 's coat and she stopped talking for a minute . |
| 4 | she 'd gone for a couple of days when she was up but she says she has n't been up to see her for about eighteen months ! |
| 5 | Ash stopped so suddenly I wondered where she 'd gone for a moment . |
| 6 | She 'd gone for a walk . |
| 7 | She 'd looked for an opening and had had to contrive her entry . |
| 8 | She seemed to wait for an initiative from her friend . |
| 9 | Not long after acquiring Belle Vue Cottage she began to search for a piece of land in the Cotherstone area , preferably a fenced-i-meadow . |
| 10 | She began to look for a university job outside Cambridge . |
| 11 | Sue Hill was 35 when she started looking for a job nearly two years ago . |
| 12 | BBC children 's favourites Brian Cant and Ross King swept the 25-year-old beauty off her feet as she started preparing for a pantomime . |
| 13 | Anna was immersed in a game with Edward under the watchful eye of Miss Fitch , who gave Ruth no welcome : so she decided to go for a walk . |
| 14 | Rosie gave him an affectionate kiss , and Shelley decided that she needed to go for a walk around the hospital , to leave the two together for a while . |
| 15 | When she went to stay for a day or two on Hydra , I accompanied her on the morning boat , and left her there . |
| 16 | Not that she dared to hope for a reference from this place ! |
| 17 | She had already spent an hour weeding and was determined to uproot a particularly tough dandelion ; then coffee , then the weekend shopping and then off to the sailing club where she had enrolled for a course of lessons in board-sailing . |
| 18 | Clare was fired for turning up late after she had to wait for a doctor because Josh had a temperature . |
| 19 | Dana did n't come to the showroom either ; she had appeared for a fitting and for a rehearsal , as she had promised , neither of which had been an outstanding success . |
| 20 | But she had to battle for a York neck victory from Satank and trainer Jack Berry said : ‘ She ran well , but looked to be going over the top . |
| 21 | Mr Elton attacked his wife after she had asked for a divorce . |
| 22 | ‘ When Jane told us she had asked for a divorce it was a complete shock . ’ |
| 23 | She had asked for a test-tube baby because her fallopian tubes were irreversibly blocked . |
| 24 | Alexa said she had applied for a modelling but had received no reply . |
| 25 | She 'd known exactly what she was getting into when she had applied for a job with the commodity brokers , McKenzie Dunton . |
| 26 | She had yearned for a glimpse of him , and had wanted to tell him about Lovat herself , to make sure that he understood her reasons . |
| 27 | She suspected that she was pregnant when she began seeing Alan , but this was only confirmed when she had to go for a check-up because Alan had a urinal infection . |
| 28 | ‘ Elaine said she had to go for a blood test . |
| 29 | She arrived with twenty minutes to spare before her train was due to leave but , after she had queued for a ticket , was only just in time to catch it . |
| 30 | It turned out that she had gone for a hill walk on her own with an agreed pick up point by him in the car . |