Example sentences of "[adv] she [was/were] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | and suddenly she was listening for dogs |
| 2 | So basically she was looking for a job . |
| 3 | Perhaps she was destined for glory . |
| 4 | Anyway she was promised for lunch to Sir Ralph Grunte . |
| 5 | ‘ Please , Harry , please … ’ she murmured , unsure what exactly she was pleading for . |
| 6 | Sometimes they had speculated on how she would develop but not often : mostly she was taken for granted because she had been such a quiet child , sitting dozily in her pram outside the Dog and Duck while the sun went down . |
| 7 | A POLICEWOMAN claimed yesterday she was ignored for promotion after complaining about sexual harassment by male officers . |
| 8 | Two days later she was arraigned for violating the new law , although her case was overtaken by challenges to the constitutionality of the legislation . |
| 9 | Several months later she was arrested for climbing the scaffolding and smashing a window at the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square . |
| 10 | Now she was leaving for good . |
| 11 | It was more peaceful now she was gone for good , but miserable . |
| 12 | Now she was waiting for the food to reach her at the rapidly expanding camp . |
| 13 | She had already had one nervous breakdown , which was no doubt a great nuisance to everybody , and now she was heading for something worse : agoraphobia . |
| 14 | And now she was heading for us , the biro between her teeth , the light of battle glinting behind her frameless glasses . |
| 15 | 5 years ago she was fined for a breach of planning laws after years of complaints about noise . |
| 16 | Instead she was confined for twenty hours a day on a ward for the criminally insane , most of them doped and many of them bruised from the warders ' heavy handling . |
| 17 | When she bent over Sarah there was no sign of sympathy , yet she was known for her kindness . |
| 18 | Occasionally she was caught for a fraction of a second with images of a pig 's cot wall with a black cat on it or a square stone chapel silhouetted in Sunday dusk , but these were inconsequential visitations , debris from the past uncovered by the rhythms of a particular song or the set and angle of a passing face , a passing mood . |