Example sentences of "she [vb past] for [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 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 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 . |
| 5 | She fought for the working class she fought for education she fought for everything to benefit the community she was a wonderful person ! |
| 6 | Last time I went up she asked for a little bell , so she could ring for me . |
| 7 | She tried for a neutral tone . |
| 8 | As the fire was crackling into life she headed for the small lavatory in the hall . |
| 9 | ‘ She suffered for a long time and although her father never knew about it , her mother did . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | She walked for a long time , while the feeling of the streets changed to night . |
| 13 | She walked for a long time , past hundreds of doors . |
| 14 | No , no ; that sounded too much like the Bible , so she plumped for the simple way and finished , ‘ He has given her a baby . ’ |
| 15 | From 1915 to 1922 she was chairman of the Women 's International League for Peace , which aimed to harness feminism to the peace movement ; and throughout World War I she campaigned for a negotiated peace and the establishment of an international peace-keeping organization . |
| 16 | She chatted for a long time to a friendly Madame Pompadour , who professed to love Wales and bombarded her with intimate questions . |
| 17 | She had for a while become a Monotype operator , on one of the " women 's machines " , and also remembers " trying to do imposition " and doing a little display work in one mainly jobbing firm where she worked for a short time . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | She worked for the British Council in the monolithic Spring Gardens building between the Mall and Trafalgar Square . |
| 21 | She settled for a continental breakfast , substituting two slices of freshly baked tresse , a plaited white loaf , for the conventional croissant . |
| 22 | She called for a formal review of the whole case by Mrs Kemp , now she was back in her post . |
| 23 | Rosemary had been to Venice and seen the original bridge , and she enthused for a long time on the beauties of that city and how much she would like to go there again after the war was over . |
| 24 | He said that on her birthday he asked her what she had learnt from life , and she thought for a long time , and then said : ‘ That people are morally the same , and intellectually different . ’ |
| 25 | She thought for a long time , not looking at him , but at the glowing red centre of the range . |
| 26 | Damn Jake ! she thought for the hundred-millionth time . |
| 27 | She reached for an old brass key . |
| 28 | ‘ There can be any number of causes of chest pain , ’ Lindsey smiled reassuringly as she reached for the slender wrist . |
| 29 | She reached for the empty plate and coffee-cups . |
| 30 | She reached for the little wrist and laid her fingers against the inside . |