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

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1 But her consultant was n't too keen on the idea and she eventually settled for a domino birth .
2 She only stayed for a few months , then she became unwell and had to give up the job .
3 No she only stayed for a few weeks in Summer
4 There were two more changes before she finally boarded for the last leg .
5 ‘ Maybe she just panicked for the moment , wanted to get rid of it as soon as possible . ’
6 She raced around the driveway on her blue tricycle , took her dolls for walks in her pram — she always asked for a new one as a birthday present — and helped to dress her smaller brother .
7 And , since you asked , she once went for a policeman with her stilettoes as he tried to bundle a black man into a car outside a dance hall on the bottom of the Tottenham Court Road ( derogatory remarks in that department were still more likely to earn a black eye than a black look in The Bar ) .
8 Luckily a feature she once did for the programme gave Christine some clothes tips which she has followed faithfully ever since .
9 He 'd thought of her constantly , hoping she still worked for the Bradford family , and the invitation to Christmas dinner with them had caused him more elation than Maud , his wife , though he had n't dared show it .
10 They included the former Communist , Alfred Sherman ( whom she later recommended for a knighthood ) ; Paul Johnson , one-time editor of the New Statesman ; and her close friend the former Labour MP and News of the World columnist , Woodrow Wyatt .
11 After re-packing her case , she fervently hoped for the last time , she had a wash , and because it looked sunny and warm outside dressed in a skimpy vest with a blouse over the top , and a rather strange Fifties-style skirt covered in poppies .
12 She also asked for a notice saying ‘ Please close the gate ’ .
13 Later she also campaigned for a better understanding of anorexia .
14 She also wrote for the Lady 's Pictorial , Women 's World , the Young Woman , and the Echo , among others .
15 She also called for the immediate release of the Birmingham Six and other framed Irish prisoners .
16 She frequently waited for the King outside Buckingham Palace , even though he did not even know of her existence .
17 Visitors Centre assistant information officer got in on the act when she bravely volunteered for a Harris Hawk to land on her arm .
18 She neither wrote for the student magazine , nor was particularly remembered .
19 Dear old Martha had much of the milk of human kindness about her ; she had pensioners who shared with her such things as she had : one was a lame robin redbreast , who came and sat on a bush opposite the door till he was fed ; another was a pigeon whose cot was quite a mile away : she too looked for a meal on every visit , and after gathering her crop-full , would wing her flight over the fields and houses home to her cot .
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