Example sentences of "[noun] she was [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did n't want Roman thinking she was angling for sympathy . |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | Merrill breathed , sensing that this , at last , might be just the breakthrough she was looking for . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The thieves cut her telephone wires and took the money she was saving for a cooker . |
| 7 | She settled herself beside him at the bench and took up the satin slippers she was decorating for Meg . |
| 8 | Harriet hardly dared blink as she watched her through the viewfinder , terrified she might miss the moment she was waiting for . |
| 9 | It took a bit of doing , but Anabelle found the place she was looking for . |
| 10 | One of them was a middle-aged man , the head-dairyman she was looking for . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Wilson saw she was being watched , closely studied , and dropped her eyes to concentrate on the jacket she was making for Pen . |
| 14 | She studied it carefully as though it were some unfamiliar object she was seeing for the first time . |
| 15 | 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 ? |
| 16 | And he gave her the kiss she was waiting for . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It was such a big place and nobody seemed to know the whereabouts of the junior physician she was asking for . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | There was something almost pathetic about the way she was striving for authority which she had n't got and never would have . |
| 23 | But the company she was temping for was a subsidiary of Bryce International and her boss had left her in no doubt that everyone was expected to attend . |
| 24 | All she 'd done was to try and help Travis a little at a very bad time in his life , and just look at the aggravation she was getting for her trouble ! |
| 25 | Switching the engine off , he leaned over and kissed her again , and this time she was waiting for him , kissing him back with an inner longing . |
| 26 | With any luck this might turn out to be the workshop she was looking for ! |
| 27 | She quickly found the view she was looking for ; in the foreground was a perfect French seafront villa — elegant , sumptuously decorated , a bit overripe , yet full of charm and suggesting an informal but entirely proper gaiety . |