Example sentences of "as she [verb] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even as she prayed for deliverance , her body shook with the desire to be one with him . |
| 2 | The nails scored the palms of her hands as she fought for control . |
| 3 | She was seething , and was not certain , as she fought for control , that she would n't physically lash out at him yet . |
| 4 | Nicolo stared at her as she fought for self-control . |
| 5 | When she turned on her mother , her face was scarlet and her double chin wobbled as she sought for words . |
| 6 | Sally , her father 's wife , had advised her on more than one occasion , but Harriet had as little time for stylists as she had for clothes — and besides , she rather liked her hair just as it was . |
| 7 | The Trunchbull had as great a dislike for long hair on boys as she had for plaits and pigtails on girls and she was about to show it . |
| 8 | Gloria came every day , just as she had for Baby . |
| 9 | Smallfry was smiling sweetly as she reached for Frankie 's sleeve and eased him in the direction of the door . |
| 10 | Dauntless tired of her voice , tired of her bony fingers digging into the cracks of his leather carapace as she clutched for balance astride the horse behind him . |
| 11 | The hair bare bunch : Christy Turlington proves too sexy for her wig as she sashays for Jean Paul Gaultier |
| 12 | Culley imagined Susan 's gleeful smile as she waited for Yorke to work it out . |
| 13 | As she waited for Lally 's return from the bathroom , Nicandra sat on the thick rag hearthrug that Nannie had made . |
| 14 | Perhaps nothing , but as she waited for money which did n't seem to be coming , it was fairly certain the crash was going to mean something . |
| 15 | As she waited for sleep , Dot thought she saw the face of the coat-owner gazing out of the dark with a complexion as pale and refined as tissue-paper . |
| 16 | The sounds mingled in her mind with the harsh cries of the birds as she waited for Sybil to pick up the phone again . |
| 17 | The last step but one creaked protestingly and she grimaced apprehensively , her body almost turning to stone as she waited for Dane to suddenly appear and demand to know what she was doing . |
| 18 | She knew as she waited for Reception to ring her back that it could well be , if Cara had been in touch with her parents , that she stood to come off the phone feeling worse than ever . |
| 19 | ‘ The lasagne 's fine , ’ she murmured as she played for time and thought of the three months ' mortgage she had to find and how impossible she would find it to pay one months ' mortgage , let alone three , if she did n't have a job . |
| 20 | A sense of relief swept her , and later , as she prepared for bed , she told herself she was becoming too tense about this man . |
| 21 | But maybe she 'd jumped to conclusions , she thought uneasily as she prepared for bed ; maybe it had n't been anything like that at all . |
| 22 | Leonora felt horribly depressed as she prepared for bed . |
| 23 | THE Princess of Wales spoke movingly of aching loneliness and rejection among AIDS victims yesterday as she appealed for compassion for sufferers and gave warning of the dangers of ignoring the disease . |
| 24 | ‘ It was going all right , but now it wo n't go at all , ’ she added more slowly , as she struggled for composure and it dawned on her that with a GB plate stuck on the back of her car that it would n't take a genius to work out that she was probably English . |
| 25 | She glared at him fiercely , her breasts rising and falling rapidly as she struggled for breath . |
| 26 | As she looked for things to furnish the house with , Signora Silvana , with her innate good taste and love of beautiful things , developed another interest — collecting antiques — and the result is the Country House Hotel . |
| 27 | Alice thought , as she looked for signs to the Underground , I am frightened . |
| 28 | He was her first man , her father , as she faced for London and the further opening of her life . |
| 29 | A RADIO controller probably heard the voice of the killer of Marie Wilks as she telephoned for help from the M50 motorway , a court was told yesterday . |
| 30 | A PREGNANT woman who was beaten and stabbed to death in daylight had been abducted as she telephoned for help on the M50 motorway , a court was told yesterday , writes Heather Mills . |