Example sentences of "[noun] she [was/were] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did n't want Roman thinking she was angling for sympathy . |
| 2 | Four hundred years later … at Middleton Cheney in Northamptonshire she was modelled for William Morris by his wife Jane . |
| 3 | In Scotland she was known for her " push " , her ability to spark off ideas in those with a similar mental agility , her determination to get things done . |
| 4 | Well I believe , I 'm not certain on that , it was in Street I think it was and er she also worked for Joseph in Street too , when she when she went , went out to work she was working for Joseph stitching for him too , but he became later Mayor of Walsall and I believe he was Liberal MP for it Pat the Liberal MP was n't it ? |
| 5 | Merrill breathed , sensing that this , at last , might be just the breakthrough she was looking for . |
| 6 | It was a chilling thought that the very circumstances she was using for her own purpose accorded only too well with the Empress 's schemes . |
| 7 | On her return she was imprisoned for sedition , a charge arising from articles published in her newspaper during her absence . |
| 8 | It was another uneasy week , and by Friday afternoon she was longing for the end of the shift so she could go home and wallow in misery . |
| 9 | The thieves cut her telephone wires and took the money she was saving for a cooker . |
| 10 | She settled herself beside him at the bench and took up the satin slippers she was decorating for Meg . |
| 11 | The directness of the question startled her , and for a moment she was lost for an answer . |
| 12 | Harriet hardly dared blink as she watched her through the viewfinder , terrified she might miss the moment she was waiting for . |
| 13 | It took a bit of doing , but Anabelle found the place she was looking for . |
| 14 | One bitch we bred , Champion Jagen Blue Trigo , did the original job she was bred for many years . |
| 15 | Just happened to forget to mention how she failed to do the job she was hired for , and got her comeuppance , good and proper , from the great wonder-rabbi Shmuel ben Issachar ! ’ |
| 16 | One of them was a middle-aged man , the head-dairyman she was looking for . |
| 17 | She had announced that she would stay in Paris until October , but by October she was looking for a new place to rent , now deeply involved with Modi and unable to leave . |
| 18 | Not only was she still ignorant of which palazzo she was in , or where it was , but she also did n't even know the name of the person she was waiting for . |
| 19 | Wilson saw she was being watched , closely studied , and dropped her eyes to concentrate on the jacket she was making for Pen . |
| 20 | She studied it carefully as though it were some unfamiliar object she was seeing for the first time . |
| 21 | As there was very little chance of her being got off at that season she was advertised for sale . |
| 22 | There must be hundreds of people named McMahon — Be ironic , though , would n't it , if she 'd been staying all this time in the house of the woman she was looking for ? |
| 23 | With her mother 's reluctant approval , she gave up her easy life ashore and went to sea , a career she was to follow for almost 50 years and which was to bring her lasting fame . |
| 24 | Throughout her career she was known for her powerful and abrasive manner : what Beatrice Webb described as her ‘ shrewd and capable but contentious ’ style , her ‘ insolently critical attitude towards all persons and institutions ’ , and her ‘ sharp satirical tongue ’ . |
| 25 | And he gave her the kiss she was waiting for . |
| 26 | Her legacy from the hot three-month affair is fame — the very prize she was striving for before she played bedroom games with the Minister for Fun . |
| 27 | It was such a big place and nobody seemed to know the whereabouts of the junior physician she was asking for . |
| 28 | She received a charming welcome from Monique Lavaux , and a boisterous one from Marie-Christine , who promptly dragged her off to her room to see the wedding dress she was making for herself , in fold after fold of shimmering ivory brocade . |
| 29 | An industrial tribunal heard that Michelle Mawdsley , 24 , was signed off work by her doctor because she was suffering from depression after her sister lost the babies she was carrying for her . |
| 30 | She took out her notebook of numbers and addresses on the Graham Mills murder case and found the number she was looking for — Jozef Taczek 's ex-directory one , which began with those four numbers . |