Example sentences of "she [vb past] [adv] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Chalk was nowhere to be found , so she made straight for the medicine cupboard in the spacious Georgian-style kitchen with its enormous , old-fashioned white-painted cupboards and scrubbed-elm table , and located the painkillers , swallowing the dosage with water before setting about making the tea . |
| 2 | She made up for the difficulty by striking their fingers with a ruler when they erred , especially when learning the piano . |
| 3 | Turning from him , she made quickly for the door . |
| 4 | She realised now for the first time that she had left her purse behind in Edward 's room . |
| 5 | She sought desperately for an answer , but could find none . |
| 6 | She checked about for a likely place of shelter . |
| 7 | ‘ Dejala , ’ they yelled as she rode in for the big swipe and missed it . |
| 8 | She shouted defiantly for a second , tears forming in her eyes , tears of terror and relief . |
| 9 | She peered round for the nuns , but they were nowhere to be seen . |
| 10 | She sucked sweetly for a while , her busy tongue teasing at the shaft with exquisite enthusiasm . |
| 11 | Paulus could sense it too as she moved in for the kill to claim a 2-6 , 6-4 , 6-3 victory . |
| 12 | And when she moved in for the kill she was as hard , and as final , as any of her male colleagues . |
| 13 | She moved out for a while , but carried on cleaning for her ; and then when she married , she moved back in again , and had her first child there . |
| 14 | Still able to feel the firm sand beneath her feet , she swam quietly for a few minutes , before turning over on to her back . |
| 15 | He stood for a moment laughing at her as she cast furiously for the vanished rabbit , and walked on , to catch her up , along the raised embankment . |
| 16 | You are a turkey — ’ she cast about for an even worse insult , ‘ a puritan ! ’ |
| 17 | After pulling on her clothes , she headed downstairs for the perfunctory glass of orange-juice which served as breakfast . |
| 18 | She headed straight for the coffee-pot . |
| 19 | Sometimes Sheila got away from her family to come with her and she drove down for a few hours as well as now and again in the middle of the week . |
| 20 | She drove out for an early lunch at a small diner down the road and was back at the cabin by half past twelve . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'll never believe he done it , ’ said Mrs Flaherty , when she came round for a cup of tea and a slice of the action , ‘ not if he 's convicted by a dozen juries , and do n't tell me he 'll get a fair trial in the current climate of opinion , not unless they pick twelve men the same size and true . |
| 22 | Richard said he 'd invite me over next time she came down for the weekend . ’ |
| 23 | When she came in for the second time her throat was like looking at a plate full of strawberries and cream — red enlarged tonsils with a coating of puss . |
| 24 | She came across for the first time today , I was out egg yard getting some eggs |
| 25 | She squirmed around for a better view of it . |
| 26 | She hung around for a while , looking aimlessly into the shop windows , wondering if she should go and have a coffee in the Franz Joseph , just in case he was there . |
| 27 | She fiddled around for a while , and cursed and muttered before she managed to get one detached . |
| 28 | For instance when he visited Manchester in 1814 he wrote 9th September — an exceedingly pleasant ride all the way from Leicester to Manchester … we found my poor mother ( actually his step-mother ) surprisingly well for a person of 80 — dined at Brother 's and drank tea with my mother and Aunt Weston ’ , and on ‘ Sunday , I went to my mother 's and walked back with Aunt Evans to my brother 's , she walked wonderfully for a person of 82½ — drank tea again at my mother 's . |
| 29 | The novel life abroad made Frances disenchanted with Britain when she returned home for a spell : |
| 30 | Now these routines seemed to take most of the morning , and after lunch and a little rest she sallied forth for a walk . |