Example sentences of "she [vb past] for [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | She experienced for the first time the frightening inhospitality of city streets . |
| 2 | She read for a long time , and I had the bonus of knowing my father was waiting impatiently to fuck her again on this night of nights which was really their honeymoon . |
| 3 | The next year she applied for the nursing course . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She knew her limitations better than she knew her worth , and she taught in a private school because it gave her a little more latitude to come and go as she wished — an important point , since she cared for an old mother whom eighty years had made exacting . |
| 6 | She fought for the working class she fought for education she fought for everything to benefit the community she was a wonderful person ! |
| 7 | She realised for the first time how Benjamin must be feeling . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | She realized for the first time fully consciously that she was ill at ease with , even afraid of , very tall men . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She asked for a second helping of spinach . |
| 15 | She had repaid £35 in seven monthly instalments of £5 , when she asked for a second loan . |
| 16 | Last time I went up she asked for a little bell , so she could ring for me . |
| 17 | ‘ But why ca n't I join Brownies , Mummy ? ’ she asked for the twentieth time . |
| 18 | She tried for a neutral tone . |
| 19 | She might have guessed that as soon as she tried for a little peace and quiet the whole place would be inundated with callers . |
| 20 | She tried for a brighter smile . |
| 21 | At the door , she stopped for the last time . |
| 22 | As the fire was crackling into life she headed for the small lavatory in the hall . |
| 23 | Abandoning an untouched plate of food , she headed for the nearest door . |
| 24 | ‘ She suffered for a long time and although her father never knew about it , her mother did . ’ |
| 25 | She claimed she had never realised the significance of the tape , which she played for the first time ‘ weeks later ’ . |
| 26 | She noticed for the first time that he was wearing a pair of white , glowing incongruously in the twilight . |
| 27 | She noticed for the first time that they had stopped , and looking round , discovered that they were outside the house . |
| 28 | She noticed for the first time that he had a slight limp . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |