Example sentences of "she [vb past] for the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She experienced for the first time the frightening inhospitality of city streets . |
| 2 | The next year she applied for the nursing course . |
| 3 | She made for the new extension , hoping she had imagined that speculative look in her young assistant 's eye , and feeling that she 'd better let him think the Palmer & Pearson file had dropped on her desk while he was absent on Friday . |
| 4 | She fought for the working class she fought for education she fought for everything to benefit the community she was a wonderful person ! |
| 5 | She realised for the first time how Benjamin must be feeling . |
| 6 | ‘ But only because when we turned up at the solicitor 's to work out the marriage settlement — her idea , not mine — she realised for the first time that I was n't as rich as she thought . |
| 7 | Speechless , she glared at him , then felt the colour start back to her cheeks as she realised for the first time what he was dressed in , which was very little indeed . |
| 8 | But as she sipped the hot , reviving brew , she realised for the first time since buying the house just how very quiet it was — eerily quiet . |
| 9 | She had n't missed him at all when he died , but now she realized for the first time that she had lost her father . |
| 10 | She realized for the first time fully consciously that she was ill at ease with , even afraid of , very tall men . |
| 11 | When she heard the voice of Sam 's mother she realized for the first time that it was more than likely that her own mother would , during the course of the evening , make some reference to the dinner-party which , she had been led to believe , was taking place in Pam 's house . |
| 12 | ‘ But why ca n't I join Brownies , Mummy ? ’ she asked for the twentieth time . |
| 13 | At the door , she stopped for the last time . |
| 14 | As the fire was crackling into life she headed for the small lavatory in the hall . |
| 15 | Abandoning an untouched plate of food , she headed for the nearest door . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | She darted for the open doors and down the stone step to the garden . |
| 18 | She claimed she had never realised the significance of the tape , which she played for the first time ‘ weeks later ’ . |
| 19 | She noticed for the first time that he was wearing a pair of white , glowing incongruously in the twilight . |
| 20 | She noticed for the first time that they had stopped , and looking round , discovered that they were outside the house . |
| 21 | She noticed for the first time that he had a slight limp . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | No , no ; that sounded too much like the Bible , so she plumped for the simple way and finished , ‘ He has given her a baby . ’ |
| 26 | As she descended the stairs , she appreciated for the first time how far she had fallen from grace . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | She worked for the Serbian Relief Fund in Salonika , took charge of a temporary Serbian refugee colony in Bastia , Corsica , and was decorated by the Serbian government . |
| 30 | In the early 1980s , because of her past connection with the military establishment , intellectuals tended to shun her and rumours had it that she worked for the Chinese KGB , the Ministry of State Security . |