Example sentences of "[subord] she [be] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rosamund Cresswell attends Farnborough Hill Convent College where she is studying for the GCSE examinations and in September she moves to the Sixth Form at Wellington College . |
| 2 | Scouting takes up much of Sarah 's spare time but she still squeezes in regular visits to Huddersfield Technical College where she is studying for two ‘ A ’ levels — geography and business studies . |
| 3 | Should she join the group of young vets who had qualified with her two years ago or should she go straight back to her godmother 's house , where she was staying for the duration of this annual veterinary congress ? |
| 4 | I arranged to meet her in the tiny port at Tala-Tala where she was waiting for me . |
| 5 | She grew up associating ‘ love ’ with an emotional roller-coaster , and although she was looking for a long-term partner , Deborah quickly became bored and dissatisfied in a stable relationship . |
| 6 | The Jessica I 'd known then would have felt more enthusiasm for a Christmas cracker bangle than she was showing for her gold bracelet . |
| 7 | She felt her knees begin to buckle , but his strength held her to him — taking her fevered body into his embrace , heaping fire on fire until she was crying for him in a voice unlike her own . |
| 8 | faxed across to Stansted cos she 's waiting for it |
| 9 | Mm , yeah , sounds like she 's looking for a paid holiday . |
| 10 | Marie looks at me like she 's waiting for me to say something . |
| 11 | I try giving her Coke all the time because she looks like she 's begging for my Coke . |
| 12 | Well she copes because she had the same problem as me with her hands if she 's writing for long , her hands ache , so she can write a longer letter if she types , so I said I , I did n't really , I like a hand written letter best it seems more personal somehow , perhaps they do , having a typed letter means you can send a longer one , they all mean |
| 13 | If she 's crying for some other reason like because we 've been quarrelling and she wants to make up but does n't know how to I just put my arms round her and cuddle her and let her cry it out . |
| 14 | She twisted in the seat to peer at every building , her eyes seeking the upper windows above shops rather than the goods on display , as if she were looking for someone . |
| 15 | But at the sight of Bob 's expression she got up , blushing again , and walked about the room as if she were looking for something . |
| 16 | But there was more than that — it was almost as if she were looking for something . |
| 17 | He handed her the file , watching her flick through it quickly , again as if she were looking for something specific . |
| 18 | Lilac gloves , half-boots made of kid — she looked , as she sat rather apprehensively in the country inn parlour , as if she were waiting for Mr Gainsborough . |
| 19 | Lee felt as if she were fighting for her life . |
| 20 | She moved , as she often did , from pure , concentrated malice , to a vaguely girlish mode , as if she was looking for someone ( not Henry ) to put his arms round her and tell her everything was all right . |
| 21 | It sounded as if she was looking for something . |
| 22 | They fell silent for a moment , all of them wondering if she was shopping for the son who was lying in a dissecting trench at the Medico-Legal Institute . |
| 23 | Faint appeal touched her expression as if she was asking for help . |
| 24 | She looked as if she was waiting for me so before she could say anything I spoke . |
| 25 | If she was waiting for him to say that she did n't need to diet she had a long wait . |
| 26 | Because she 's heading for trouble . |
| 27 | I can argue that Greenfield does not make this explicit because she is taking for granted conventions that she herself has learnt in the western education system and which she expects her readers to share . |
| 28 | There was no time to get you because she was making for the gate . ’ |
| 29 | While she was looking for her other shoe , I stuffed my feet into trainers — no socks — and pulled on my Steel Wheels Tour sweatshirt . |
| 30 | It was while she was looking for his record folder in the filing cabinet that she realised her hands were trembling . |