Example sentences of "she [vb past] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next year she applied for the nursing course . |
| 2 | She made for the new extension , hoping she had imagined that speculative look in her young assistant 's eye , and feeling that she 'd better let him think the Palmer & Pearson file had dropped on her desk while he was absent on Friday . |
| 3 | She fought for the working class she fought for education she fought for everything to benefit the community she was a wonderful person ! |
| 4 | As the fire was crackling into life she headed for the small lavatory in the hall . |
| 5 | She headed for the outsize black car that was parked opposite . |
| 6 | RUNAWAY teenager Nicola Rogers told today why she headed for the bright lights of Blackpool after leaving her home 100 miles away four days ago . |
| 7 | She darted for the open doors and down the stone step to the garden . |
| 8 | For instance , when Paris designated the wanton APHRODITE as the most beautiful of the goddesses , Hera 's morals were affronted and she arranged for the Trojan Wars to occur as just recrimination for the slight . |
| 9 | Hari closed her book with a snap of finality , the outstanding balance she owed for the French calf hung like a weight around her neck . |
| 10 | No , no ; that sounded too much like the Bible , so she plumped for the simple way and finished , ‘ He has given her a baby . ’ |
| 11 | Michael went with her to meetings and joined her when she worked for the Liberal cause because it was the next best thing to Labour . |
| 12 | She worked for the Serbian Relief Fund in Salonika , took charge of a temporary Serbian refugee colony in Bastia , Corsica , and was decorated by the Serbian government . |
| 13 | In the early 1980s , because of her past connection with the military establishment , intellectuals tended to shun her and rumours had it that she worked for the Chinese KGB , the Ministry of State Security . |
| 14 | She worked for the British Council in the monolithic Spring Gardens building between the Mall and Trafalgar Square . |
| 15 | Damn Jake ! she thought for the hundred-millionth time . |
| 16 | ‘ There can be any number of causes of chest pain , ’ Lindsey smiled reassuringly as she reached for the slender wrist . |
| 17 | She reached for the empty plate and coffee-cups . |
| 18 | She reached for the little wrist and laid her fingers against the inside . |
| 19 | She looked for the other , older brother whom Henry had said had died during the war , Leonard was it ? |
| 20 | And forgetting , startled , she looked for the hovering colour and saw a rainbow forming itself . |
| 21 | She struggled for the sheer fun of it , disappointed as her futile gasps and gyrations were interrupted by the shrilling of the doorbell . |
| 22 | When she had finished hanging out the washing , before she went for the weekly shop at SavaCentre , Sara applied her lipstick , and around her throat she squirted the toilet water which she had had for three years and never before used . |
| 23 | Heart racing , she felt for the dangling cord and flooded the room with light just as the door closed quietly . |
| 24 | Mungo admired Emily 's patience as she waited for the right moment to mention his proposition . |
| 25 | His lips twisted and she waited for the inevitable cynical response , but surprisingly it did n't come . |
| 26 | She waited for the unpleasant tingling on the back of her neck to go away and bother somebody else . |
| 27 | With — ’ she searched for the right word . |
| 28 | ( d ) She had for the previous 24 hours been receiving narcotic drugs and antibiotics and was in a state in which it was necessary to give her oxygen . |
| 29 | She was known to all in the French Quarter for her good looks , her own hard-luck story ( two marriages , two troubled kids , a problem with drink ) and the soft spot she had for the hard-luck stories of others , poets in particular . |
| 30 | The call was lost in the sound of her heart pounding furiously as she ran for the cliff-top . |