Example sentences of "she was not [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this afternoon she was n't looking for spare rides . |
| 2 | She was n't dressed for the occasion : no gown , no satin slippers , no tiara . |
| 3 | She was n't fooled for a moment . |
| 4 | ‘ It seemed to me she 'd been worn down by leading a life she was n't fitted for . |
| 5 | Shelley heard his footstep in the grass as he turned to face her , and slowly took off his glasses and pushed them into his back pocket ; but she was n't prepared for being taken bodily into his arms and soundly kissed . |
| 6 | ‘ She was n't born for most of it , ’ I interrupted , putting an arm round her and drawing her away . |
| 7 | Rita Williamson from Arlesey in Bedfordshire , the winner of our SHE/Timotei Fiction competition , could have started her story like this , but she did n't , and she was n't lost for words . |
| 8 | The family of a woman who died from cancer are claiming that she was n't fed for four days while she was in hospital . |
| 9 | She was n't to wait for him if she had anything else to do . |
| 10 | When she was n't required for her scene in the court room of Alexandria she was fetching and carrying and dabbing calamine lotion on the shoulders of John Harbour who , earlier in the day , had been broiled pink as a lobster by inexpertly using a sun-lamp . |
| 11 | She was telling herself that she was n't falling for him . |
| 12 | She was n't pleading for her life . |
| 13 | Dr always insisting that she was n't campaigning for the legalization of cannabis . |
| 14 | She was not prepared for , although not surprised by , Miss Bedwelty 's forthright reaction when she saw the animals in the refrigerator factory . |
| 15 | She was not prepared for a very similar question being thrown at her . |
| 16 | She was not fooled for an instant nor so cut off from news that she had not heard that war was in the air again . |
| 17 | But she was not silenced for long . |
| 18 | But Robin-Anne did not react , and I looked down to see that she was not watching for the new day , but was crying . |
| 19 | Payment of income support is related to pension payment days , and she was not remunerated for the first five days of the elderly person 's occupation . |
| 20 | She was not found for 16 hours . |
| 21 | Campbeltown took the brunt of the shot and shell , her captain — Lieutenant-Commander S. ( Sam ) H. Beattie RN — blinded by search-lights yet making last-minute corrections to her course when a rift in the smoke showed she was not heading for the caisson , still 700 yards upriver . |