Example sentences of "she [vb past] [adv] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She checked about for a likely place of shelter . |
| 2 | ‘ Dejala , ’ they yelled as she rode in for the big swipe and missed it . |
| 3 | He stood for a moment laughing at her as she cast furiously for the vanished rabbit , and walked on , to catch her up , along the raised embankment . |
| 4 | After pulling on her clothes , she headed downstairs for the perfunctory glass of orange-juice which served as breakfast . |
| 5 | She drove out for an early lunch at a small diner down the road and was back at the cabin by half past twelve . |
| 6 | Unfortunately , little is known about her life , however , it is understood that she worked regularly for the National Geographic magazine , for whom she did some of their earliest published colour photography . |
| 7 | A spokeswoman for the Guides Association said yesterday : ‘ She worked here for a short while and I suppose it was just a job to her . ’ |
| 8 | After one more anxious glance she took off for the other end of the pool and a quick look showed that he was already on his way , moving with powerful strokes and keeping well clear of her . |
| 9 | She reached out for a pale , beautiful robe that seemed to be a continual pour of colour , like a mountain river with the sun shining on it and , as she did so , there was a whisper of sound behind them . |
| 10 | She looked round for a plain grave . |
| 11 | She looked around for a blunt instrument . |
| 12 | Now she wished fervently for an old-fashioned attendant to match the commissionaire downstairs and the man who had driven Luke 's car away to park it . |
| 13 | She competed successfully for a post-doctoral research fellowship at one of the less fashionable women 's colleges . |
| 14 | As she warmed up for a short recital in the prison 's dining hall , Evelyn said : ‘ Music is incredible medicine for every human being in some sort of way or another . |
| 15 | Memories of the marathon " sew-in " before she left home for the International Youth Congress could not have failed to bring a smile to Eva 's lips , or those of her sisters , if they could have seen her stitching away patiently and efficiently on a hand-driven sewing machine . |
| 16 | She stayed there for a long time . |
| 17 | She stood there for a long time , thinking the whole thing out . |
| 18 | She sat there for a long time rocking backwards and forwards and giving herself up to howling , letting her gasps for breath shake her to pieces and leave her shuddering . |
| 19 | She held out for a federal party in the negotiations with the Russians ( 1902 ) to the point where the talks broke down . |