Example sentences of "[adv] she [vb past] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Impatiently she reached for a tissue and wiped it off . |
| 2 | She left elementary school at fourteen to take a job filling seed packets for five shillings a week ; later she worked for a draper and subsequently for the Co-op , where she joined the union movement of which she was to be a lifelong member . |
| 3 | Last time I went up she asked for a little bell , so she could ring for me . |
| 4 | Alison Berry describes how she cared for a patient with a difficult leg wound in the community |
| 5 | Then she went for a walk . |
| 6 | Then she thought for a moment . |
| 7 | Her output was not impressive but at least she succeeded for a couple of hours in driving the memory of Sybil 's murder into the back of her mind . |
| 8 | There she stood for a long time , gazing out to sea , her heart full of sadness and her eyes full of tears . |
| 9 | Instead she called for a kind of fiction that would record the atoms of experience ‘ as they fall upon the mind , in the order in which they fall ’ , that would ‘ trace the pattern , however disconnected and incoherent in appearance , which each sight or incident scores upon the consciousness ’ . |
| 10 | Farrelly met Sinead when she advertised for a band in an Irish music paper . |
| 11 | She was lifted out of her perch above the engine and made for the customs shed where she asked for a mirror so that she could restore order to her wrecked coiffure before she went into Paris . |
| 12 | Miranda fled , unseeing down the dark passage to the lavatory where she sat for a very long time feeling sick to her stomach . |