Example sentences of "she have [vb pp] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ash stopped so suddenly I wondered where she 'd gone for a moment . |
| 2 | She 'd gone for a walk . |
| 3 | she 'd gone for a couple of days when she was up but she says she has n't been up to see her for about eighteen months ! |
| 4 | She 'd asked for a terse put-down , she reflected with some justice . |
| 5 | She 'd looked for an opening and had had to contrive her entry . |
| 6 | She had already spent an hour weeding and was determined to uproot a particularly tough dandelion ; then coffee , then the weekend shopping and then off to the sailing club where she had enrolled for a course of lessons in board-sailing . |
| 7 | Dana did n't come to the showroom either ; she had appeared for a fitting and for a rehearsal , as she had promised , neither of which had been an outstanding success . |
| 8 | He managed to spend the odd hour alone with Grace , who told him she had fallen for a Welsh corporal who had stood on a land-mine and ended up blind in one eye . |
| 9 | Arthur Leopold of County Cork had taken the picture , and the first time Ellie had tiptoed into the bedroom she had stood for a long time staring at the photograph , because it was the first time she had ever seen the likeness of her dead mother . |
| 10 | She had asked for a test-tube baby because her fallopian tubes were irreversibly blocked . |
| 11 | Mr Elton attacked his wife after she had asked for a divorce . |
| 12 | ‘ When Jane told us she had asked for a divorce it was a complete shock . ’ |
| 13 | To her great relief , however , Fabia subsequently discovered that she had asked for a quite delicious meal of venison with bacon , mushrooms and tomatoes . |
| 14 | It was true also that she gave English lessons and that she had applied for a full-time job as an English teacher in a small private school . |
| 15 | Alexa said she had applied for a modelling but had received no reply . |
| 16 | She 'd known exactly what she was getting into when she had applied for a job with the commodity brokers , McKenzie Dunton . |
| 17 | She had yearned for a glimpse of him , and had wanted to tell him about Lovat herself , to make sure that he understood her reasons . |
| 18 | After all , she had suspected for a long time now that he was aware of the effect he sometimes had on her . |
| 19 | She arrived with twenty minutes to spare before her train was due to leave but , after she had queued for a ticket , was only just in time to catch it . |
| 20 | She had gone for a walk up the road , beside a field of sunflowers , and although the sun had not yet risen she could sense the whole field turning away from her and each flower raising its face towards the eastern hills over which the sun would shortly leap . |
| 21 | It turned out that she had gone for a hill walk on her own with an agreed pick up point by him in the car . |
| 22 | One Saturday morning she had waited for an hour and a half outside the dentist 's where he had gone to have a troublesome tooth fixed . |
| 23 | If she had weakened for a moment , to the extent of uttering one soft word of forgiveness , of friendship , she might have burst into tears . |
| 24 | One contained the proofs of an article she had written for an academic journal ; she scanned the contents of the envelope briefly and pinned it to her noticeboard to be dealt with on her return from Oxford . |
| 25 | She had hoped for a while that Seth could straighten Joey out . |
| 26 | She had hoped for a new freedom , but had found a trap . |
| 27 | But Winnie , in all , though glad he was sick , that he had not jilted her , would have much preferred a broken leg — she had hoped for a broken leg — than the way he was , like those newsreel horrors : Hitler 's Jews , like something out of Belsen . |
| 28 | After the letter came she had hoped for a miracle and prayed for one , too , but Richie Daly 's visit had snuffed out that hope in one short sentence . |
| 29 | She had hoped for an audience with the Prime Minister , but had to be content with the publicity of being there . |
| 30 | It seemed to Tallis that she had smouldered for a long time before finally the fire had taken hold . |