Example sentences of "[subord] she [vb past] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've got a list of phone numbers , it seems like fifty , of different people who have been invoked — the doctor , the home help , district nurse , chiropodist , social worker , hospital doctor , Age Concern , the Red Cross , the old people 's home where she went for a break and dozens more , I hardly know who they are . |
| 2 | The second daughter , Katarina ( Tinka ) , also graduated from the College , where she taught for a time . |
| 3 | Dorothy , the eldest , went to the maternal grandparents , where she stayed for a number of years . |
| 4 | She had for a while become a Monotype operator , on one of the " women 's machines " , and also remembers " trying to do imposition " and doing a little display work in one mainly jobbing firm where she worked for a short time . |
| 5 | And although she listened for the sound of his steps , she did not hear them . |
| 6 | She felt more alive than she had for a long time . |
| 7 | No , no ; that sounded too much like the Bible , so she plumped for the simple way and finished , ‘ He has given her a baby . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | For a Royal tour she always used to pull out the stops and literally shop until she dropped for the occasion . |
| 10 | She informed her great-granddaughter that if she filed for a divorce she would take Andrew 's side and say that what he had done in taking a mistress and in finally attempting suicide was because she had never acted as a wife to him . |
| 11 | She felt weak and seedy and if she went for a walk her ankles puffed up . |
| 12 | Perhaps , if she waited for a while , Christine might come to her again . |
| 13 | ‘ All right , all right , ’ she quickly agreed as it dawned on her that if he was who she thought he was then she was going about it completely the wrong way if she hoped for an interview . |
| 14 | The old woman stared at him and her eyes were bright and piercing and the silver thimble had fallen to the lap of her dress , and her fists were clenched now as if she searched for a memory , and her husband watched her anxiously as if he witnessed that she was at war within herself . |
| 15 | One day Glumdalclitch put me down on the grass in the palace garden , while she went for a walk with some of the Queen 's ladies . |
| 16 | Jane clutched her beige cardigan tightly in one hand while she searched for a tissue in her handbag with the other . |
| 17 | While she waited for the water to come to the boil she put on her boudoir cap to conceal the steel haircurlers ( dragon 's teeth through the night but never mind that ) , and her Jaeger dressing-gown ( which cost the awful sum of £5 ) , and set forth for her regular deliverance on the lavatory . |
| 18 | She should have got something to drink while she waited for the chemist but she had n't thought of it then . |
| 19 | The words finished on a long , drawn breath while she waited for the words she had no wish to hear . |
| 20 | HOSPITAL officials have pledged to investigate allegations that a 90-year-old patient was not properly cared for while she waited for an operation . |
| 21 | while she yearned for the insect dance |
| 22 | She knew her limitations better than she knew her worth , and she taught in a private school because it gave her a little more latitude to come and go as she wished — an important point , since she cared for an old mother whom eighty years had made exacting . |
| 23 | FORMER US Presidents Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan , who are both staying at Claridge 's in London 's Mayfair , had a private meeting with Lady Thatcher before she left for a visit to Indonesia . |
| 24 | And then , because she could n't bear to quarrel with him the night before she left for a new life , she said , ‘ I 'm wearing your mother 's brooch , Fran . |
| 25 | She was about to ask if he 'd be back before she left for the night , when the door closed behind him . |
| 26 | When she had finished hanging out the washing , before she went for the weekly shop at SavaCentre , Sara applied her lipstick , and around her throat she squirted the toilet water which she had had for three years and never before used . |
| 27 | The windows were mere arrow-slits now blocked by wooden shutters ; the air was so damp with a pervasive chill that Queen Margaret insisted fires be lit in her rooms before she retired for the night . |
| 28 | She had repaid £35 in seven monthly instalments of £5 , when she asked for a second loan . |
| 29 | I forgot to give it to Madge when she asked for the keys . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , when she disappeared for a week without saying anything to Katrine who was her closest friend , Katrine went round to the flat a number of times , thinking she must be ill . |