Example sentences of "she [was/were] [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So what I did is I writ thirty plus thirty four , adding up to sixty four and she jumped up and she 's grabbing thing off table and she had hold of the screwdriver and I says to Linda thought she was gon na stab me with screwdriver and she were n't , she were looking for a pencil so she could rub it out , well she could n't and she found this pencil and she scribbled thirty four out . |
| 2 | So she jumped up , grabbed the pencil and everything , she got a screwdriver first , I thought she were gon na stab me with screwdriver and she were looking for a pencil |
| 3 | When I got outside I found Mum in the yard , waving her arms about and giving directions to the neighbours whom she was organising for the party . |
| 4 | She was joined for a short time by another dancer back from war service , Alan Carter . |
| 5 | She was reaching for the glasses already . |
| 6 | And if he 's out — ’ she was reaching for the handkerchief in her apron pocket — ‘ I want to know where he is . |
| 7 | She was treated for a cut on her head but the injury was not serious and she is continuing her holiday in Cyprus . |
| 8 | Precisely who it was she was using for a role model became clear as a middle-aged lady , admirably slim in well-cut jodhpurs , erupted from some inner fortress to enquire , in tones that carried effortlessly across the yard , precisely why Caroline had failed to run up her stirrups , how long had she been riding ? |
| 9 | So basically she was looking for a job . |
| 10 | She had announced that she would stay in Paris until October , but by October she was looking for a new place to rent , now deeply involved with Modi and unable to leave . |
| 11 | My wife , Joyce also came close and peered , but in her case I believe she was looking for a miracle . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Having signed on and said that she was looking for a job as a research scientist , she was advised that she should think again . |
| 14 | Well you obviously , she was looking for a spec a gentleman within a certain age range . |
| 15 | She was looking for a pensioner but , you were n't in the right street . |
| 16 | He bet she was looking for the fox . |
| 17 | She was looking for the opportunity to extend her holdings in Glasgow , but she was unsure if she wanted to expand her business in the same district as her first premises — perhaps she ought to move upmarket , rather like her London operation . |
| 18 | The directness of the question startled her , and for a moment she was lost for an answer . |
| 19 | The thieves cut her telephone wires and took the money she was saving for a cooker . |
| 20 | She was accepted for the Winter Gardens show , immediately struck up a great friendship with Edith Whalley and they became inseparable . |
| 21 | She was stumbling for the right words . |
| 22 | She was referred for an urgent orthotopic liver transplant , which was subsequently performed . |
| 23 | It kept her going , especially when she was angling for the notice of the one man who , after giving her dinner on the way back from Bovington , had treated her with only a lighthearted pleasant banter whenever they met . |
| 24 | WIDOW Muriel Spence wept yesterday as she was jailed for an ‘ outrageous ’ festive fraud . |
| 25 | The argument that she was employed for the specific purpose of teaching students , and therefore not eligible for dismissal rights , was rejected . |
| 26 | She also knew what was good for herself , so she kept for her own use the money that she was given for the children 's food . |
| 27 | There was the proliferative retinopathy episode a few weeks ago , and when she was hospitalised for the threatened toxaemia we found that her blood glucose was actually better controlled at home now than in hospital … |
| 28 | 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 ? |
| 29 | Rain thought she was trying for a dramatic effect , but she was a poor actress and the result was that she looked petulant . |
| 30 | She was gone for a quarter of an hour , then , like a ghost , she reappeared in the downstairs room and sat down . |