Example sentences of "she [vb past] be [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | They would all be returning to town in the autumn to meet some sons of good families in Riba ; she 'd been saving for years , money from the pigeons , money from the cheeses , the almonds , her mother 's money when she died — may she rest in peace and perpetual light shine on her — she 'd hidden it from that villainous landlord who 'd strip everyone of their surplus if he knew how much they 'd hoarded , but they 'd never find out , the folk were far too tight to let anyone know , and he , Davide , must not breathe a word . |
| 2 | It was her nail scissors that she 'd been searching for days , lost under the hearthrug and pressing into her hip ; and the cry was also her virginity , small and bewildered and gone . |
| 3 | She 'd been writing for the NME , about David Cassidy and things like that but it must have been quite a struggle to get by . |
| 4 | Karen had dipped badly in her A-levels and had done two years in a commerce school before she 'd been accepted for her degree course . |
| 5 | Nothing of her true nature , not even — and here Pavel had been holding his breath at the back of the Border Control 's interrogation room — where she 'd been living for the past two years . |
| 6 | At last she found what she 'd been looking for . |
| 7 | This might sound , to Albert , as if she 'd been looking for him . |
| 8 | She 'd been digging for a while when she looked up to swing the stone in her hand on to the pile , and saw Clare standing there . |
| 9 | Well , he told Mummy , and now she 's furious , because apparently it 's what she 'd been hoping for . |
| 10 | Subconsciously , she realised , she 'd been hoping for a ready answer , an explanation which would clear her niggling doubts … |
| 11 | Frau Geller murmured something to her companion about it never happening to a woman unless she 'd been asking for it . |
| 12 | One day in the shop she 'd been waiting for Malcolm 's girlfriend and partner , Vivienne Westwood — they 'd been planning to go somewhere but Vivienne had n't turned up , she 'd phoned to tell this American girl that . |
| 13 | She 'd been waiting for this moment for so long , and all she could do , now that it had finally arrived , was think the worst of him , instead of simply being happy to see him again . |
| 14 | She 'd been waiting for Christine , but Christine had n't come . |
| 15 | She 'd been waiting for you . ’ |
| 16 | The moment she 'd been waiting for . |
| 17 | The strong fingers peeling the nightshirt upwards , the exploring hunger of the hard mouth on her stomach , her breasts , her lips , it felt as if she 'd been waiting for ever for these feelings … |
| 18 | Rain said : ‘ If Sabine Jourdain planned to reveal how much of Durance 's work she 'd been doing for him , a lot of people would have preferred she did n't . ’ |
| 19 | But she 'd taken an instant liking to you and for years she 'd been agitating for me to settle down . ’ |
| 20 | She 'd been missing for 24 hours , her disappearance reported by her boyfriend , himself arrested and questioned by police , but then released . |
| 21 | In her days as a schoolteacher she 'd been known for the quickness of her wit and her clarity of thought . |
| 22 | She 'd been longing for peace and quiet so that she could get on with her carving , and , now that she had it , was standing here like a loon ! |
| 23 | By the time I moved in with Lucy and Joe , she 'd been divorced for a couple of years and her ex-husband had emigrated to America . |
| 24 | She 'd been divorced for 12 years . |
| 25 | Her use of ‘ weakness ’ sounded belittling , precisely the effect that she had been aiming for . |
| 26 | She had been asked for twelve and it was now half past eleven , which would give her time for a pleasant comfortable drive to Carpendens Court . |
| 27 | She had been intended for a respectable life . |
| 28 | Ellie ran upstairs , threw off her old blouse and skirt and her much darned stockings , and got hurriedly dressed in her Sunday best , yet another variation on the plain black dress with detachable collar and cuffs she had been wearing for as long as she could remember . |
| 29 | She had been flying for twelve years , had studied with her father who flew Concorde as a senior British Airways captain , and had soloed on her seventeenth birthday . |
| 30 | And in Amabel 's experience it had always been the wife who complained of it , Ethel Lord , for instance , fretting herself into a decline , or very nearly , when her husband had taken to spending so much time in Leeds ; Maria Colclough turning to religion because her man emerged so rarely from his counting house ; even strident Lizzie Braithwaite complaining that she had been neglected for the sake of the business . |