Example sentences of "she [verb] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She read for a long time , and I had the bonus of knowing my father was waiting impatiently to fuck her again on this night of nights which was really their honeymoon . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | When she requires a new cooker , she begs for a small loan from the Department of Social Security . |
| 4 | She had repaid £35 in seven monthly instalments of £5 , when she asked for a second loan . |
| 5 | She asked for a second helping of spinach . |
| 6 | Last year she asked for a big French dictionary for her birthday . ’ |
| 7 | Last time I went up she asked for a little bell , so she could ring for me . |
| 8 | She stands for a long moment . |
| 9 | If you are to be awkward then my mother will not know where she stands for a good deal of time . ’ |
| 10 | She tried for a neutral tone . |
| 11 | She might have guessed that as soon as she tried for a little peace and quiet the whole place would be inundated with callers . |
| 12 | She tried for a brighter smile . |
| 13 | IT will be a great relief to Abi King at the Arts Theatre if the props she needs for a new play can be turned up by the public at large . |
| 14 | ‘ She suffered for a long time and although her father never knew about it , her mother did . ’ |
| 15 | She changed into her shorts — Fen had donned his before they went shopping — and , remembering Fen 's earlier insinuations , she opted for a baggy T-shirt which , she hoped , made her figure as sexless as a boy 's , then went aloft , tense , wary , uncertain of her reception . |
| 16 | She drove for a few minutes in silence , then she said , ‘ You know what I 'm going back to ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ She wakes for a few minutes and then is unconscious for several hours , ’ said a police spokesman . |
| 18 | As she hunted for a worn pair of leather gloves in the pocket of her pelisse , she did not appear to notice that she had been pulled closely in to the gentleman for a few brief seconds . |
| 19 | For instance : ‘ You should lose weight ’ , ‘ You should n't be so inarticulate at work ’ , ‘ You should n't pursue money as a goal ’ , ‘ You should be kinder to your mother when she phones for a long chat . ’ |
| 20 | She walked for a long time , while the feeling of the streets changed to night . |
| 21 | She walked for a long time , past hundreds of doors . |
| 22 | From 1915 to 1922 she was chairman of the Women 's International League for Peace , which aimed to harness feminism to the peace movement ; and throughout World War I she campaigned for a negotiated peace and the establishment of an international peace-keeping organization . |
| 23 | She calls for a national policy for dealing with runaway children , and more government funding . |
| 24 | She chatted for a long time to a friendly Madame Pompadour , who professed to love Wales and bombarded her with intimate questions . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | She kneels for a red flower , picks it , later |
| 27 | She settled for a continental breakfast , substituting two slices of freshly baked tresse , a plaited white loaf , for the conventional croissant . |
| 28 | She called for a formal review of the whole case by Mrs Kemp , now she was back in her post . |
| 29 | Rosemary had been to Venice and seen the original bridge , and she enthused for a long time on the beauties of that city and how much she would like to go there again after the war was over . |
| 30 | Next year she hopes for a larger venue , with catering facilities . |