Example sentences of "she was [verb] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It tasted of candied peel and nuts , and she was reaching for another one when she saw that Lucenzo 's head had lifted at the sound of a child 's piping tones . |
| 2 | Joanna was kept in hospital for 10 weeks , during which time she was tested for all kinds of illnesses . |
| 3 | It was enough that the girl had made the shoes which she was wearing for this special occasion , she certainly had no place in this night of Emily 's triumph . |
| 4 | She was in pain , but she was taking it out on a complicated Fair Isle jumper that she was knitting for some nephew in Canada . |
| 5 | The prototype of the new Fast Afloat Boat 3 ( see pa 90 of this issue ) carried out her first service on 29 May while returning from Salcombe to Weymouth , where she was based for some days for familiarisation trials . |
| 6 | Well , she was to dance for another twenty years . |
| 7 | ‘ You 're a good boy , Wayne , ’ Angelica had said , and they 'd both known that she was meaning for more than just the errand . |
| 8 | Fabia arose on Sunday morning , thought of Cara , of Barney , and of the man she had never yet met but , with guilty conscience , hoped to , and then attempted to shed her anxieties by remembering that , with Františkovy Láznë being less than twenty-five miles away , Františkovy Láznë was where she was heading for that day . |
| 9 | Did he think she was lying for some reason ? |
| 10 | If he thought she was falling for that … |
| 11 | She was longing for some peace and privacy , believing that now the wedding was over she would slip back into relative obscurity . |
| 12 | Of course in doing so , her rear became out of line , so she was cussed for that too . |
| 13 | Such cheating may take the form of coaching or practice , but it may also take the subtle form of the chemistry teacher who asked the GCE student , ‘ are you sure that is what you want ? ’ when she was asking for some particular potion to complete an experiment in a practical examination , or the American teacher on the same 1987 visit who pointed to a particular answer in a workbook and asked the student to ‘ check that out ’ . |
| 14 | One bitch we bred , Champion Jagen Blue Trigo , did the original job she was bred for many years . |
| 15 | She said that she was waiting for some of her belongings to be sent on , but she 'd supply all her tax and National Insurance details as soon as they came . |
| 16 | If she was hanged for that , so much for man 's legal institutions ! ’ |