Example sentences of "[Wh det] she [was/were] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was enough that the girl had made the shoes which she was wearing for this special occasion , she certainly had no place in this night of Emily 's triumph . |
| 2 | The family has already asked for an investigation into her death by officials at Winterton psychiatric hospital , Sedgefield , from which she was discharged for weekend leave a day before she died on Sunday . |
| 3 | How had she managed to survive the intervening weeks when this was what she was made for ? |
| 4 | Leith thought crossly , and felt quite annoyed that Rosemary 's father was clearly asking her what she was calling for . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm sorry , ’ she apologised breathlessly , so bemused by that time that she had n't a clue what she was apologising for . |
| 6 | Vivienne Westwood , current British Designer of the Year , had a very clear idea of what she was looking for : ‘ Something unorthodox that people have n't seen before . |
| 7 | She had had every opportunity to be , for heaven 's sake , but she 'd never worked hard enough at it and now she did not feel like struggling with a foreign language to search for an item when she did not even know what she was looking for . |
| 8 | It made her howl with bitterness when she was alone in the weeks that followed , and it made her grit her teeth as she strode through the streets looking for revenge , or for her baby , or for Dorothy , not too sure what she was looking for but usually coming home with nothing better than a bag of old tins . |
| 9 | Her own college , at first encounter , struck her as somewhat dimly conformist , with long brown corridors and an unexpectedly high proportion of young women apparently wrapped up in the triumphs of yesteryear on the hockey field or in the prefects ' Common Room , but even there she had discovered part of what she was looking for : in the persons of Liz Ablewhite ( now Headleand ) and Esther Breuer ( still Breuer ) she had discovered it , and rediscovered it there each time she met them , which was , these days , on average once a fortnight . |
| 10 | Kattina was anything but tidy , and she found what she was looking for under a pile of underwear . |
| 11 | Because she was n't sure what she was looking for . |
| 12 | The dark red and damson robes were heavy and stifling and they could not possibly be what she was looking for . |
| 13 | She had deliberately not revealed what she was looking for , and so insisted on evacuating every office before she began work . |
| 14 | After a moment , she seemed to find what she was looking for and stepped up to the door . |
| 15 | She was n't entirely sure what she was looking for but she remembered what Amy had said about her husband 's church in one of the group sessions at St Sylvester 's . |
| 16 | There was much more of the same but it was not long before she found what she was looking for . |
| 17 | I do n't know what she was looking for , but she did n't see me . |
| 18 | She had no idea what she was looking for . |
| 19 | A quick anxious look behind her and she found what she was looking for . |
| 20 | She saw what she was searching for — the deep love she had once known before . |
| 21 | Because when Jay had first kissed a woman , she knew she had come home , it was what she was born for . |
| 22 | If only , she thought ; but it was no good wishing , especially when she did n't even know what she was wishing for . |
| 23 | Finally we stopped at a machine knitting company and I realised what she was shopping for . |
| 24 | what she was getting at , she knew exactly what she was shopping for , she went into that shop , there was the list , it was handed in , I bet it took her less time to shop then , than it did later when she went shopping with a vague idea well I must n't forget this , I must n't forget that , but then the wandering around sort of oh that looks nice and I fancy that |
| 25 | And if I might just come in on this thing that 's always thrown up against Mrs. Thatcher about her rejoice , she said rejoice when South Georgia had been retaken and the rejoice was because it appeared to have been done without any casualties — that was what she was rejoicing for , not the victory erm |
| 26 | Perhaps Daine would n't like what she was planning for his self-designed afterlife . |
| 27 | She did n't know what she was waiting for , a miracle perhaps , because one thing she did know , and that was that Patsy was right . |
| 28 | When she was younger she thought she knew what she was waiting for . |
| 29 | Melanie knew what she was waiting for although she had not told her . |