Example sentences of "she [vb past] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 She read for a long time , and I had the bonus of knowing my father was waiting impatiently to fuck her again on this night of nights which was really their honeymoon .
2 The next year she applied for the nursing course .
3 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 .
4 She knew her limitations better than she knew her worth , and she taught in a private school because it gave her a little more latitude to come and go as she wished — an important point , since she cared for an old mother whom eighty years had made exacting .
5 She fought for the working class she fought for education she fought for everything to benefit the community she was a wonderful person !
6 Last year she asked for a big French dictionary for her birthday . ’
7 Last time I went up she asked for a little bell , so she could ring for me .
8 She tried for a neutral tone .
9 As the fire was crackling into life she headed for the small lavatory in the hall .
10 She headed for the outsize black car that was parked opposite .
11 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 .
12 She suffered for a long time and although her father never knew about it , her mother did . ’
13 She darted for the open doors and down the stone step to the garden .
14 She changed into her shorts — Fen had donned his before they went shopping — and , remembering Fen 's earlier insinuations , she opted for a baggy T-shirt which , she hoped , made her figure as sexless as a boy 's , then went aloft , tense , wary , uncertain of her reception .
15 As she hunted for a worn pair of leather gloves in the pocket of her pelisse , she did not appear to notice that she had been pulled closely in to the gentleman for a few brief seconds .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 She walked for a long time , while the feeling of the streets changed to night .
19 She walked for a long time , past hundreds of doors .
20 No , no ; that sounded too much like the Bible , so she plumped for the simple way and finished , ‘ He has given her a baby . ’
21 From 1915 to 1922 she was chairman of the Women 's International League for Peace , which aimed to harness feminism to the peace movement ; and throughout World War I she campaigned for a negotiated peace and the establishment of an international peace-keeping organization .
22 She chatted for a long time to a friendly Madame Pompadour , who professed to love Wales and bombarded her with intimate questions .
23 She had for a while become a Monotype operator , on one of the " women 's machines " , and also remembers " trying to do imposition " and doing a little display work in one mainly jobbing firm where she worked for a short time .
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 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 .
27 She worked for the British Council in the monolithic Spring Gardens building between the Mall and Trafalgar Square .
28 She settled for a continental breakfast , substituting two slices of freshly baked tresse , a plaited white loaf , for the conventional croissant .
29 She called for a formal review of the whole case by Mrs Kemp , now she was back in her post .
30 Rosemary had been to Venice and seen the original bridge , and she enthused for a long time on the beauties of that city and how much she would like to go there again after the war was over .
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