Example sentences of "[subord] she [vb past] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've got a list of phone numbers , it seems like fifty , of different people who have been invoked — the doctor , the home help , district nurse , chiropodist , social worker , hospital doctor , Age Concern , the Red Cross , the old people 's home where she went for a break and dozens more , I hardly know who they are . |
| 2 | She can rarely have travelled , for example , more than fifteen miles from Brackley , Northamptonshire , where she lived for most of her twenty-four years . |
| 3 | On one occasion her piano was dragged up a hillside to the door of an isolation hut , where she sang for five rather surprised soldiers . |
| 4 | The second daughter , Katarina ( Tinka ) , also graduated from the College , where she taught for a time . |
| 5 | Her little apartment had become their home , where she cooked for him and they shared all the daylight hours together . |
| 6 | Her parents then moved to London and admitted her as a free scholar to the sculpture studio in the Royal College of Art , where she stayed for four years and graduated an A.R.C.A. |
| 7 | After time off to have children , she became a secretary at Kendall Primary School , Colchester , where she stayed for five years before moving at Myland . |
| 8 | Dorothy , the eldest , went to the maternal grandparents , where she stayed for a number of years . |
| 9 | It was a childhood where she wanted for nothing materially but everything emotionally . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Renowned for her ‘ tomboyish tastes ’ ( she would , even in evening dress , always carry a knife and some string about her person ) , Emma went on to the School for Ornamental Art and began to support early Victorian feminist causes , making an initial living as a restorer of stained-glass windows notably in the chapel of Merton College , Oxford , where she worked for two years in the early 1860s . |
| 12 | And although she listened for the sound of his steps , she did not hear them . |
| 13 | ‘ I know very little about her , although she worked for him in the war too . |
| 14 | Young girl gets a holiday job in a butcher 's and gets more flesh than she bargained for . |
| 15 | ‘ That girl of yours asked me for a statement and I gave her one-more than she bargained for , and I made her take it all down . ’ |
| 16 | And since her birthday , she had been seeing more of Dionne than she had for years . |
| 17 | She felt better than she had for months . |
| 18 | Janine nodded and left the flat , feeling lighter hearted than she had for many days . |
| 19 | She felt reckless and more alive than she had for months , her own desire rising as his hungry mouth fell on her breasts like a starving child , and his eager hands tore at her clothes . |
| 20 | She was sitting back relaxedly and looking more contented than she had for some time . |
| 21 | All the family thought that in spite of Maureen 's arduous lifestyle , she looked better and happier than she had for several years . |
| 22 | She felt more alive than she had for a long time . |
| 23 | She also knew what was good for herself , so she kept for her own use the money that she was given for the children 's food . |
| 24 | She had no man to go for her — her husband was away travelling , too — so she waited for her brother to get back . ’ |
| 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 | It was so hot that Perdita would have liked to have worn shorts or a dress , but her mosquito bites had come up in huge red bumps and were oozing and itching like mad , so she settled for her pale pink jeans and a dark blue shirt . |
| 27 | Bernice did n't know whether to laugh or cry , so she settled for sarcasm . |
| 28 | She suddenly wanted to throw something at him , anything , needing to hurt him as she was hurting , but could n't actually reach his ambitious heart , so she aimed for the next best thing : his self-respect . |
| 29 | For a Royal tour she always used to pull out the stops and literally shop until she dropped for the occasion . |
| 30 | Cos she asked for one , you did n't ask for anything . |