Example sentences of "she [vb past] for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She read for a while , trying to close her mind to the sounds from the galley , the picture of Fen enjoying his supper and — simply — any pictures of Fen at all . |
| 2 | A woman who caused a row when she applied for a teaching job under a false identity has now joined the debate over children 's reading . |
| 3 | Annis Garfield , caused a major row 2 years ago when she applied for a teaching post under a false name and was offered an interview , despite her application being littered with spelling mistakes . |
| 4 | She applied for a grant , and in , er in career , it says like , |
| 5 | The debate as to whether this institutional framework exercised a determining ( ideological ) influence on film output has been an ongoing one , but the importance of Claire Johnston 's contribution to it in the mid seventies is that she argued for a reading of Hollywood entertainment films which made a space for ‘ collective fantasies of women 's desire ’ . |
| 6 | Alison Berry describes how she cared for a patient with a difficult leg wound in the community |
| 7 | She fought for a separation … and her wish was granted . |
| 8 | There , she checked for a pulse , fearing for a moment that she had killed him . |
| 9 | She asked for a sign ; some proof to verify her experience . |
| 10 | She was lifted out of her perch above the engine and made for the customs shed where she asked for a mirror so that she could restore order to her wrecked coiffure before she went into Paris . |
| 11 | She said she asked for a lift for herself and a male friend as a joke . |
| 12 | Her output was not impressive but at least she succeeded for a couple of hours in driving the memory of Sybil 's murder into the back of her mind . |
| 13 | She phoned for a taxi which arrived in a few minutes . |
| 14 | Pulling herself out of the dazed state into which the woman 's embittered words had thrown her , she tried for a non-committal tone . |
| 15 | She stopped for a second to point something out to the Doctor . |
| 16 | She stopped for a minute and looked out at the fields . |
| 17 | But on the way she noticed a crowd listening to a preacher and she stopped for a while to join them . |
| 18 | She stopped for a moment and took a deep breath before checking the next crate . |
| 19 | She took her notepad from the pocket of her apron as she went , and at the doorway she stopped for a moment as if to gather herself . |
| 20 | She stopped for a moment , and put her shoes back on for walking on the hard tarmac . |
| 21 | She stopped for a moment , as if the basket were overburdening her , and put it down . |
| 22 | She stopped for a moment to brush the dust from her hands and clothes and set off back to the house . |
| 23 | She stopped for a moment , and gazed at it with pleasure , and saw how huge it was , surging against the rocks with far more power and energy than it had in the shelter of the estuary , flinging plumes of spray about in a reckless manner and dragging back to gather itself for the next rush forward . |
| 24 | She stopped for a moment to get her bearings . |
| 25 | She stopped for a moment . |
| 26 | She stopped for a moment , then said suddenly , ‘ Let's look them up in the veterinary register and see roughly how old they are , judging from the year they qualified . ’ |
| 27 | She stopped for a moment and eyed Sophie thoughtfully . |
| 28 | She stopped for a breath and took a step nearer her mother . |
| 29 | She wandered for a while under the climbing roses and clematis , coiled over wooden trellises to make shady walkways . |
| 30 | Apart from the cat she was going to spay , no other clients came in , but there was a telephone call from someone who wanted to know how much she charged for a booster injection . |