Example sentences of "she [vb past] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She noticed for the first time that they had stopped , and looking round , discovered that they were outside the house . |
| 32 | She noticed for the first time that he had a slight limp . |
| 33 | She changed into her shorts — Fen had donned his before they went shopping — and , remembering Fen 's earlier insinuations , she opted for a baggy T-shirt which , she hoped , made her figure as sexless as a boy 's , then went aloft , tense , wary , uncertain of her reception . |
| 34 | She drove for a few minutes in silence , then she said , ‘ You know what I 'm going back to ? ’ |
| 35 | In her bedroom now , sipping her whisky , she acknowledged for the first time in her life that if she had to make a list of the happy times , it would properly have to include the hours she had spent with Graham in his garden . |
| 36 | As she hunted for a worn pair of leather gloves in the pocket of her pelisse , she did not appear to notice that she had been pulled closely in to the gentleman for a few brief seconds . |
| 37 | For instance , when Paris designated the wanton APHRODITE as the most beautiful of the goddesses , Hera 's morals were affronted and she arranged for the Trojan Wars to occur as just recrimination for the slight . |
| 38 | Hari closed her book with a snap of finality , the outstanding balance she owed for the French calf hung like a weight around her neck . |
| 39 | She walked for a long time , while the feeling of the streets changed to night . |
| 40 | She walked for a long time , past hundreds of doors . |
| 41 | No , no ; that sounded too much like the Bible , so she plumped for the simple way and finished , ‘ He has given her a baby . ’ |
| 42 | From 1915 to 1922 she was chairman of the Women 's International League for Peace , which aimed to harness feminism to the peace movement ; and throughout World War I she campaigned for a negotiated peace and the establishment of an international peace-keeping organization . |
| 43 | As she descended the stairs , she appreciated for the first time how far she had fallen from grace . |
| 44 | She chatted for a long time to a friendly Madame Pompadour , who professed to love Wales and bombarded her with intimate questions . |
| 45 | She exhibited for the first time in spring 1900 at the New English Art Club , an organization with strong Slade connections , and continued to show there twice yearly until 1903 . |
| 46 | She had for a while become a Monotype operator , on one of the " women 's machines " , and also remembers " trying to do imposition " and doing a little display work in one mainly jobbing firm where she worked for a short time . |
| 47 | Michael went with her to meetings and joined her when she worked for the Liberal cause because it was the next best thing to Labour . |
| 48 | She worked for the Serbian Relief Fund in Salonika , took charge of a temporary Serbian refugee colony in Bastia , Corsica , and was decorated by the Serbian government . |
| 49 | In the early 1980s , because of her past connection with the military establishment , intellectuals tended to shun her and rumours had it that she worked for the Chinese KGB , the Ministry of State Security . |
| 50 | She worked for the British Council in the monolithic Spring Gardens building between the Mall and Trafalgar Square . |
| 51 | She settled for a continental breakfast , substituting two slices of freshly baked tresse , a plaited white loaf , for the conventional croissant . |
| 52 | Instead she settled for the three most applicable adjectives she could think of . |
| 53 | She called for a formal review of the whole case by Mrs Kemp , now she was back in her post . |
| 54 | Rosemary had been to Venice and seen the original bridge , and she enthused for a long time on the beauties of that city and how much she would like to go there again after the war was over . |
| 55 | He said that on her birthday he asked her what she had learnt from life , and she thought for a long time , and then said : ‘ That people are morally the same , and intellectually different . ’ |
| 56 | She thought for a long time , not looking at him , but at the glowing red centre of the range . |
| 57 | Finding she could n't push the pram up the slope , she thought for a few seconds and then tried to pull it up . |
| 58 | Just like a shark , she thought for the second time that night , and the image did n't entirely displease her . |
| 59 | Damn Jake ! she thought for the hundred-millionth time . |
| 60 | ‘ We 're so lucky ! ’ she thought for the umpteenth time . |