Example sentences of "she [adv] [vb past] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But her consultant was n't too keen on the idea and she eventually settled for a domino birth . |
| 2 | She only stayed for a few months , then she became unwell and had to give up the job . |
| 3 | No she only stayed for a few weeks in Summer |
| 4 | She raced around the driveway on her blue tricycle , took her dolls for walks in her pram — she always asked for a new one as a birthday present — and helped to dress her smaller brother . |
| 5 | And , since you asked , she once went for a policeman with her stilettoes as he tried to bundle a black man into a car outside a dance hall on the bottom of the Tottenham Court Road ( derogatory remarks in that department were still more likely to earn a black eye than a black look in The Bar ) . |
| 6 | They included the former Communist , Alfred Sherman ( whom she later recommended for a knighthood ) ; Paul Johnson , one-time editor of the New Statesman ; and her close friend the former Labour MP and News of the World columnist , Woodrow Wyatt . |
| 7 | She also asked for a notice saying ‘ Please close the gate ’ . |
| 8 | Later she also campaigned for a better understanding of anorexia . |
| 9 | Visitors Centre assistant information officer got in on the act when she bravely volunteered for a Harris Hawk to land on her arm . |
| 10 | Dear old Martha had much of the milk of human kindness about her ; she had pensioners who shared with her such things as she had : one was a lame robin redbreast , who came and sat on a bush opposite the door till he was fed ; another was a pigeon whose cot was quite a mile away : she too looked for a meal on every visit , and after gathering her crop-full , would wing her flight over the fields and houses home to her cot . |