Example sentences of "[adv] she [verb] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The production control team rehearse the bulletin and tell Charlie via an earpiece how long she has to talk for . |
| 2 | It was her own cottage and it was all she had to show for 20 years of marriage so , she reasoned , she might as well make it look as good as possible . |
| 3 | He was all she had to hope for . |
| 4 | erm , but I do n't see why she ca n't , whenever she wants to look for files , copy files and sort out other people 's mess |
| 5 | Sylvia Pedder from Headington in Oxford uses a wheelchair and despite efforts by British Rail to update their trains , she says often she has to travel for hours on end on her own . |
| 6 | Before Luke arrived back she had arranged for details and menus to be sent to her home address , and she was humming softly when he came in . |
| 7 | He says it came as a great shock , although when she was a drug addict they had wondered how she managed to pay for heroin . |
| 8 | How she had suffered for him , for her poor pitiable ridiculous father , how she had hated her cruel peers for their relentless mocking , how she had dreaded each Christmas pantomime , each school-leavers ' farewell , each assembly that she knew her father was due to conduct , each occasion on which she heard him open his mouth in public . |
| 9 | He remembered how she 'd sung for the passengers on the ship and how they 'd all liked her . |
| 10 | Then she went to look for Esther to make plans , for at least there would be Esther in these appalling two months of honeymoon ahead . |
| 11 | Then she went to look for Alice who was out of the bathroom and sitting on the edge of their bed , brushing her hair . |
| 12 | Sleepily she tried to adjust for this situation , flipping over and snuggling into the heated surface of his chest . |
| 13 | Consequently she 'd prepared for the worst while hoping for the best . |
| 14 | And if she 's called round she goes looking for a cardigan or something on . |
| 15 | Well she sent for , her mother came , and er , when she came in , explained to her , why she 'd sent for her , and she smacked the child across the face , and said , there was no need to do that . |
| 16 | The knowledge disappeared as quickly as it had come ; but it had come in time to remind her of why she had waited so anxiously for Johnny to visit her ; to remind her of why she had longed for his return with such a burning impatience . |
| 17 | In 1936 , at a time when she had played for Yorkshire on 62 occasions , Mary married John Toogood , a Yorkshire businessman . |
| 18 | She 'd known exactly what she was getting into when she had applied for a job with the commodity brokers , McKenzie Dunton . |
| 19 | Sue Hill was 35 when she started looking for a job nearly two years ago . |
| 20 | ‘ Please , ’ she murmured as she climbed the steps to the fifth-floor Brooklyn Heights flat she 'd subleased for the summer , ‘ please , let this be an acceptance ! ’ |
| 21 | Ash stopped so suddenly I wondered where she 'd gone for a moment . |
| 22 | There was a clear view of the table where she had sat for so long . |
| 23 | Strong political statements commenting on Ireland where she has lived for the past two years . |