Example sentences of "she [be] [v-ing] for [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Mrs Armitage says she 's fighting for other families too . |
2 | She is looking for critical views against which to pitch her own ; it seems that she may have chosen the wrong sort of topic , since on a holiday in Italy she had been stunned by the newly renovated Michelangelo ceiling in the Sistine Chapel in Rome , and although there were plenty of books about it , many of them went into extravagant detail . |
3 | Now she was leaving for good . |
4 | Not for the first time , she was going for broke ; she tried to tell herself that nothing much bad could happen , at the worst she could be discovered and thrown out , but somehow the stakes seemed much higher . |
5 | But immigration officials said no , believing she was coming for paid work . |