Example sentences of "she have [vb pp] for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | she 'd gone for a couple of days when she was up but she says she has n't been up to see her for about eighteen months ! |
| 2 | Ash stopped so suddenly I wondered where she 'd gone for a moment . |
| 3 | She 'd gone for a walk . |
| 4 | She had already spent an hour weeding and was determined to uproot a particularly tough dandelion ; then coffee , then the weekend shopping and then off to the sailing club where she had enrolled for a course of lessons in board-sailing . |
| 5 | Dana did n't come to the showroom either ; she had appeared for a fitting and for a rehearsal , as she had promised , neither of which had been an outstanding success . |
| 6 | Mr Elton attacked his wife after she had asked for a divorce . |
| 7 | ‘ When Jane told us she had asked for a divorce it was a complete shock . ’ |
| 8 | She had asked for a test-tube baby because her fallopian tubes were irreversibly blocked . |
| 9 | Alexa said she had applied for a modelling but had received no reply . |
| 10 | She 'd known exactly what she was getting into when she had applied for a job with the commodity brokers , McKenzie Dunton . |
| 11 | She had yearned for a glimpse of him , and had wanted to tell him about Lovat herself , to make sure that he understood her reasons . |
| 12 | She arrived with twenty minutes to spare before her train was due to leave but , after she had queued for a ticket , was only just in time to catch it . |
| 13 | It turned out that she had gone for a hill walk on her own with an agreed pick up point by him in the car . |
| 14 | She had gone for a walk up the road , beside a field of sunflowers , and although the sun had not yet risen she could sense the whole field turning away from her and each flower raising its face towards the eastern hills over which the sun would shortly leap . |
| 15 | If she had weakened for a moment , to the extent of uttering one soft word of forgiveness , of friendship , she might have burst into tears . |
| 16 | She had hoped for a while that Seth could straighten Joey out . |
| 17 | After the letter came she had hoped for a miracle and prayed for one , too , but Richie Daly 's visit had snuffed out that hope in one short sentence . |
| 18 | She had thought for a moment that he was going to have a heart attack from shock , but , recovering himself , he had said , ‘ Well , now you know , what are you going to do about it ? ’ to which she had answered simply , ‘ Divorce , ’ and walked out . |
| 19 | She came along sedately in the middle of the night in complete confidence , the umbrella raised and perfect , with a look of absolute bliss on her face to show her mother what she had got for a present . |
| 20 | ‘ You 're completely unscrupulous , Lydia , ’ said Betty , but she had laughed for a moment . |
| 21 | It was wispy and very feminine , a dress she had bought for a party that had in the event been missed by at least three months . |
| 22 | ‘ She 's gone for a skiing lesson — she wants to learn before going home . ’ |