Example sentences of "[adv] she [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So she opted for desperate measures to get him to change his image . |
| 2 | Eventually she plumped for Persian help , but at a time ( 412 ) when her potential critics inside the league were less effective ( cp. p. 97 on Corinth ) . |
| 3 | Inwardly she longed for some sparkling revenge . |
| 4 | Now she asked for white wine in her charged voice . |
| 5 | All this time , her cries and weepings had so increased in volume and in duration ( sometimes she cried for five or six hours ) that she was forbidden to go to church , and had to be confessed and absolved in a private chapel . |
| 6 | Then she stoops for some pebbles and warns that I 'd better come in now . |
| 7 | Then she added for good measure , ‘ I do n't know what you want to talk to me about , do I ? ’ |
| 8 | There she studied for several months at the Académie Carmen with James McNeill Whistler [ q.v. ] , |
| 9 | Hall offered her a job , and there she stayed for two years working sixty to seventy hours a week and still commuting back to Blackheath , except on press night , which would go on all night , once a fortnight . |
| 10 | Yet she knew for certain that if she never saw him again she would never forget him . |
| 11 | The more determinedly she hunts for confirmatory details the more the sources and scale of her information multiply , so that she reaches a stage of nervous exhaustion from sheer overload . |