Example sentences of "she [vb past] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He said that on her birthday he asked her what she had learnt from life , and she thought for a long time , and then said : ‘ That people are morally the same , and intellectually different . ’ |
| 32 | She thought for a long time , not looking at him , but at the glowing red centre of the range . |
| 33 | Damn Jake ! she thought for the hundred-millionth time . |
| 34 | She reached for an old brass key . |
| 35 | ‘ There can be any number of causes of chest pain , ’ Lindsey smiled reassuringly as she reached for the slender wrist . |
| 36 | She reached for the empty plate and coffee-cups . |
| 37 | She reached for the little wrist and laid her fingers against the inside . |
| 38 | She looked for the other , older brother whom Henry had said had died during the war , Leonard was it ? |
| 39 | And forgetting , startled , she looked for the hovering colour and saw a rainbow forming itself . |
| 40 | She struggled for the sheer fun of it , disappointed as her futile gasps and gyrations were interrupted by the shrilling of the doorbell . |
| 41 | " She counted for a great deal in the palace " in the sense that she had privileged access to Louis and thus could be a helpful patron . |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | She lay for a long while , the tears falling . |
| 44 | She lay for a long time in the enveloping warmth of the bath-water , feeling a strange sense of sadness . |
| 45 | Heart racing , she felt for the dangling cord and flooded the room with light just as the door closed quietly . |
| 46 | ’ She cried for a little but comfortably , with relief . |
| 47 | Unwisely Spain intrigued for an anti-British coalition as she intrigued for an anti-American coalition in 1898 ; as Wellington observed , Spain acted ‘ as if Europe were at her feet ’ . |
| 48 | She hesitated for a long moment , then suddenly thrust out her arm . |
| 49 | She aimed for a light-hearted tone . |
| 50 | Angry and hurt , she aimed for a vulnerable spot . |
| 51 | Determined not to present him with any more ammunition , she paused for a long moment , considering her words carefully before trying again . |
| 52 | The woman was attacked in the early hours of Wednesday at an isolated station at Mexborough , South Yorks , as she waited for a late train home . |
| 53 | Mungo admired Emily 's patience as she waited for the right moment to mention his proposition . |
| 54 | His lips twisted and she waited for the inevitable cynical response , but surprisingly it did n't come . |
| 55 | She waited for the unpleasant tingling on the back of her neck to go away and bother somebody else . |
| 56 | She searched for a suitable answer to Cyril 's question , but could not find one . |
| 57 | " Aunt Bella and Grandmother would put a brave face on it , but my mother would be … " she searched for a suitable word , " wounded . |
| 58 | She searched for a new subject of conversation . |
| 59 | With — ’ she searched for the right word . |
| 60 | Valerie Eliot was also his protector — as a secretary she had for a long time been organizing his daily life and guarding him from the world , and it was probably the calm assurance of her presence which first drew him towards her . |