Example sentences of "she [vb past] for a [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | She asked for a second helping of spinach . |
| 4 | She had repaid £35 in seven monthly instalments of £5 , when she asked for a second loan . |
| 5 | Last time I went up she asked for a little bell , so she could ring for me . |
| 6 | She tried for a neutral tone . |
| 7 | She might have guessed that as soon as she tried for a little peace and quiet the whole place would be inundated with callers . |
| 8 | She tried for a brighter smile . |
| 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 | She walked for a long time , while the feeling of the streets changed to night . |
| 12 | She walked for a long time , past hundreds of doors . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She chatted for a long time to a friendly Madame Pompadour , who professed to love Wales and bombarded her with intimate questions . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She settled for a continental breakfast , substituting two slices of freshly baked tresse , a plaited white loaf , for the conventional croissant . |
| 17 | She called for a formal review of the whole case by Mrs Kemp , now she was back in her post . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . ’ |
| 20 | She thought for a long time , not looking at him , but at the glowing red centre of the range . |
| 21 | She reached for an old brass key . |
| 22 | " She counted for a great deal in the palace " in the sense that she had privileged access to Louis and thus could be a helpful patron . |
| 23 | She went for a last walk with him — and they never returned . |
| 24 | She lay for a long while , the tears falling . |
| 25 | She lay for a long time in the enveloping warmth of the bath-water , feeling a strange sense of sadness . |
| 26 | Unwisely Spain intrigued for an anti-British coalition as she intrigued for an anti-American coalition in 1898 ; as Wellington observed , Spain acted ‘ as if Europe were at her feet ’ . |
| 27 | She hesitated for a long moment , then suddenly thrust out her arm . |
| 28 | She aimed for a light-hearted tone . |
| 29 | Angry and hurt , she aimed for a vulnerable spot . |
| 30 | Determined not to present him with any more ammunition , she paused for a long moment , considering her words carefully before trying again . |