Example sentences of "[conj] she [verb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And although she listened for the sound of his steps , she did not hear them . |
| 2 | At last her opportunity arose when Collin Brooks , a friend of both Eliot and her own family , suggested that she apply for the post of Eliot 's secretary which had fallen vacant . |
| 3 | Our Agent advises that we indicate that £25,000 is the lowest acceptable offer and that she pays for the alteration . |
| 4 | There is little doubt that she pushed for the creation of the Zollverein , imposing trade boycotts if states were unwilling to join . |
| 5 | In the early 1980s , because of her past connection with the military establishment , intellectuals tended to shun her and rumours had it that she worked for the Chinese KGB , the Ministry of State Security . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm pleased with it , ’ Maria responded warily , reminding herself that she worked for the man . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's now a tradition that she comes for the last week of the campaign , ’ he says . |
| 8 | No , no ; that sounded too much like the Bible , so she plumped for the simple way and finished , ‘ He has given her a baby . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | For a Royal tour she always used to pull out the stops and literally shop until she dropped for the occasion . |
| 11 | Twice she was in the very act , loaded fork in her hand , when her breathing quickened , her mouth drew into a forbidding shiver of disgust , and she waited for the next signal to come round . |
| 12 | His lips twisted and she waited for the inevitable cynical response , but surprisingly it did n't come . |
| 13 | But Maggie had a warm heart and she looked for the best in people . |
| 14 | In June 1813 she was back at Temple Place , and she arranged for the auctioning of the contents of her Bond Street house . |
| 15 | For instance , when Paris designated the wanton APHRODITE as the most beautiful of the goddesses , Hera 's morals were affronted and she arranged for the Trojan Wars to occur as just recrimination for the slight . |
| 16 | Marianne is 33 and she married for the third time two years ago . |
| 17 | Well , there was n't much Maureen could do about this injury , but the wound did heal up nicely and she cared for the bird for over a year . |
| 18 | The old woman lay in her hammock , sleeping ; it was a time when she had taken a heavy dose , and he was able to lead Ariel out and let her walk before him , now and then turning to make sure he was not about to do something to her , put a halter on her or hit her , and she made for the fence and pointed over it and asked him with her hands and eyes if she could go there , beyond the stockade , into the receding forest , where the bromeliads pushed out their stiff blades , and the monkeys nibbled at mango fruits and threw them down when they were unripe with tiny rows of toothmarks like some sharp-fanged fairy child 's , where the birds of many colours screeched . |
| 19 | She was pretty and popular and she lived for the moment . |
| 20 | The balls and parties given by the Franklins did little to buoy up her spirits , being , as she described herself , ‘ such a shy , reserved being ’ , and she longed for the quiet , regular family life of home . |
| 21 | Already they were aroused and she longed for the water against her overheated skin to caress and tease her further and she longed to plunge in beside Fernando and for him to … |
| 22 | Rosa in the chapel with her head bent over her hands , her legs stiff from kneeling , thought , We will go away together , somewhere different from here , to Africa , he said , he wanted to go there , and I will take care of him , we are like each other , we are both … and she hunted for the word because she did not want to use the word ‘ misfit ’ , and found ‘ changeling ’ . |
| 23 | And she reaches for the knife . |
| 24 | As she walked up Tullis Street , Templeton 's came into view , and she headed for the entrance that would take her to the offices where she d been told to report . |
| 25 | Her cabin , when she returned to it , was beautifully cool , and she headed for the shower , stripping off her clothes as she went . |
| 26 | The wood cracked against Belle 's hands and she sat for the rest of the lesson holding her knees . |
| 27 | erm and she paid for the holiday , but she has an allergy . |
| 28 | It sounds like the Velvet Underground mixed with … ’ — and she searches for the appropriate ingredient — ‘ … with Nico . ’ |
| 29 | But she heads for the kitchen , just the same . |
| 30 | Aunt Kit never wrote , it would have shamed her to write my married name on the envelope , but she knitted for the baby , strange , holey garments that stretched to a huge size when I washed them , big enough for a prize boxer . |