Example sentences of "she [vb mod] [vb infin] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite her depression she occupied herself with office tasks , and , although there were times when she dabbed at a tear , she reminded herself that she must prepare for the time when she would never see Silas again . |
| 2 | Under the trust route the widow will be left the £1M of non-qualifying assets and will use them to " buy " ( by way of exchange ) the qualifying assets ( which she must hold for the requisite two years ( before death ) ) . |
| 3 | He 'd been helping his wife to , she must work for the council and he 'd been helping her and he said er the matron at Comfort House had asked and he , and he 'd noticed Jim 's name on when he delivered ours so he knew where they could , he 'd take them . |
| 4 | How she must fret for the King . |
| 5 | Before she left the party , she must look for the witch 's hat . |
| 6 | Having turned the car , she wondered if she should make for the cottage to talk out with her mother what her next move should be , but thinking that would leave her grandmother alone too long , she decided to make for home again . |
| 7 | Now he 's told her that she should pay for the new family car . |
| 8 | Thus , for example , a woman 's wish to work outside the home might conflict with the expectation that she should care for an elderly relative . |
| 9 | She might stay for a a weekend or something , but I mean erm |
| 10 | ‘ If the going stays soft she 'll go for the Queen Elizabeth at Ascot , otherwise we 'll wait for the Champion at Newmarket , ’ said Cecil , who tries to win his fifth St Leger on Saturday with Allegan . |
| 11 | The woman said her lodgings were rather difficult to find , but if we go to see her after the show , she 'll arrange for a member of the company to escort us there . ’ |
| 12 | I just hope she 'll sleep for a little while . |
| 13 | If things keep as they 're going now and she gets the services she 's getting I 've no grumbles , she 'll stop for a long while . |
| 14 | ‘ My neighbours on the top floor return tomorrow , and Mrs Gregson is here now — one good scream and she 'll send for the police . ’ |
| 15 | Mind you , I 'm not saying as that 's what she 'll get for the asking , and I 'm not saying there 's not many a man as 'll hand over his pay-packet unopened , but there 's enough of the other sort to give us a bit of a breather Thursdays . ’ |
| 16 | Wrapped up in the everyday business of looking after her newborn baby , Belinda felt fine : she could cope for a few days . |
| 17 | It was nearly bedtime , but she rushed downstairs and asked if she could send for the parson . |
| 18 | She could sleep for a thousand years . |
| 19 | Here , through the space of a breath or two , she could live for a moment in the rapturous evening when she and Lal had dressed for the Hunt Ball : the evening that had given her Andrew . |
| 20 | Obviously she had to go to Dublin and stay in the convent there ; this was the only way she could train for a career . |
| 21 | Perhaps she could ring for a taxi , to take her to the nearest station ? |
| 22 | It might be part of her job to parade through the ballroom but she surely did n't want to have to prattle facts and figures for what she was wearing now , a skin-tight concoction of bugle heads and sequins that probably cost more than she 'd make for the entire year . |
| 23 | She 'd make for the kitchen , she thought , and let herself out through the back door . |
| 24 | Perhaps she 'd go for a walk , see if any driftwood had collected in the bend of the river . |
| 25 | She 'd go for a walk — maybe some fresh air would clarify her thoughts . |
| 26 | Jean was tough and liked to drink ; she would endure for a long while yet . |
| 27 | In the early days she would go for an evening ‘ burn up ’ in her car around central London , leaving her armed Scotland Yard bodyguard behind . |
| 28 | The right hon. Member for Finchley said yesterday that she would vote for the Government because they were following a path that she favoured — in precisely the opposite direction . |
| 29 | One of them apparently recognised Ranulf and called out honey-phrased invitations as to what she would offer for a silver coin . |
| 30 | She used the buses and wherever she found herself on the last bus at night , whether at her own home or at her son 's , she would stay for the night only to set off again early the following morning . |