Example sentences of "she [was/were] [vb pp] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was joined for a short time by another dancer back from war service , Alan Carter . |
| 2 | She was treated for a cut on her head but the injury was not serious and she is continuing her holiday in Cyprus . |
| 3 | The directness of the question startled her , and for a moment she was lost for an answer . |
| 4 | She was accepted for the Winter Gardens show , immediately struck up a great friendship with Edith Whalley and they became inseparable . |
| 5 | She was referred for an urgent orthotopic liver transplant , which was subsequently performed . |
| 6 | WIDOW Muriel Spence wept yesterday as she was jailed for an ‘ outrageous ’ festive fraud . |
| 7 | The argument that she was employed for the specific purpose of teaching students , and therefore not eligible for dismissal rights , was rejected . |
| 8 | She also knew what was good for herself , so she kept for her own use the money that she was given for the children 's food . |
| 9 | There was the proliferative retinopathy episode a few weeks ago , and when she was hospitalised for the threatened toxaemia we found that her blood glucose was actually better controlled at home now than in hospital … |
| 10 | She was gone for a quarter of an hour , then , like a ghost , she reappeared in the downstairs room and sat down . |
| 11 | Singled out from the dogs ' home Sorrel knew she was destined for a special life . |
| 12 | Michelle has an abundance of waist-length hair and although she was prepared for a radical cut , Patrick recommended keeping the length but blunt-cutting it to a clean , straight line : ‘ You do n't have to have mountains cut off to look different , ’ he said . |
| 13 | He then asked if she was prepared for the parting and she told him , ‘ Willingly , John , in such a cause as this . ’ |
| 14 | She was prepared for the move when it came and followed Claudia Hamilton and the other ladies upstairs . |
| 15 | But actually it does n't tell you anything about the quality of the care which they 're purchasing and the evidence that we are getting increasingly from the community health council is the experience of people of the health service is that actually the quality of the care is getting worse and this is not due to the staff in the health ee the more detailed plans coming to the next meeting of the e the more detailed plans coming to the next meeting of the for an operation er , four years , it should to be said er , she 's been waiting despite the government 's claim that all operations are done within two years er for very severe varicose veins and surprisingly enough she got them because of course most varicose have been removed her , the north-east Thames region erm , and er she turned up on the Wednesday and the operation had been postponed twice previously er , she was er gone through all the er , various tests which took her four hours cos she had to find all the places herself , there was nobody to show her to X-ray and various other places erm she was prepared for the op and then was sent home because there was n't a bed available ! |
| 16 | If she was prepared for the worst then , God willing , it would n't happen . |
| 17 | Later she was to think how little she was prepared for the simple events which were to change her life completely — indeed she would have said that so much had happened to her already that any further incidents must be minor , a judgement which could not have been more faulty . |
| 18 | Detectives investigating the murder of Glasgow pensioner Agnes Law have revealed that she was killed for the few pounds she had in her house . |
| 19 | I do n't think she was fooled for a minute by Werewolf 's professional decoy act , but she went along with it . |
| 20 | As she assumed her drunken pose and shambled towards the centre of the stage , she was deafened for a moment by the clapping and the shouting ; and different names came to her ears , all meant for her : ‘ Good old Lemon ! |
| 21 | She was shortlisted for the RNA award , which should have been her step up , but with no paperback until August there is little chance of any extra mileage . |
| 22 | No more than 14 when she pocketed the Scottish Girls ' title and the Scottish Girls ' Under-22 Stroke-Play Championship for a first time , Jane became the youngest ever to play for Great Britain and Ireland in the Curtis Cup when she was chosen for the 1980 match at St. Pierre . |
| 23 | She was blamed for a crash which killed bride-to-be Teresa Power , 26 . |
| 24 | 5 years ago she was fined for a breach of planning laws after years of complaints about noise . |
| 25 | Occasionally she was caught for a fraction of a second with images of a pig 's cot wall with a black cat on it or a square stone chapel silhouetted in Sunday dusk , but these were inconsequential visitations , debris from the past uncovered by the rhythms of a particular song or the set and angle of a passing face , a passing mood . |
| 26 | Her mother was a true believer in Christ , and after she was widowed for the second time , she came to live in Kidderminster in 1658 . |
| 27 | She was bought for a consortium of Arabs and will stay in training next season . |
| 28 | Janice , 26 , was on her way to start work at 8.30 last night when she was attacked for no apparent reason . |
| 29 | She was settled for the night ; Clare had put her to bed and given her a mug of warm milk and two sleeping tablets . |
| 30 | She was captured for the second time and remains disappeared . |