Example sentences of "she had [verb] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ought to have taken heed of the warnings contained in those anonymous horoscopes , Lissa thought morosely , fingering the disks she had prepared for Adam . |
| 2 | She had searched for pictures and added them to her dreams , gypsies dancing , donkeys plodding through narrow streets , dazzling white houses and cool patios drenched in flowers . |
| 3 | What pity she had possessed for others had been diffuse and impersonal , for women as a mass rather than for individual women such as poor , defeated Poll whom she saw daily , the marks of Jem 's fists on her face . |
| 4 | The initiative foundered and Lorna , who has always had a talent for design , remembered an advert she had seen for Colour Counsellors . |
| 5 | She had dressed for comfort , knowing the travelling conditions would be fairly primitive . |
| 6 | She felt relieved and began to express feelings she had hidden for years . |
| 7 | ‘ I offered to bring her back again but she said she had to wait for Angharad . ’ |
| 8 | The third column , which she had reserved for telephone numbers , was so far entirely blank . |
| 9 | If she had asked for Ward Five he would have told her morning visiting in the public wards was forbidden and he might , because he was feeling benevolent , have called her love . |
| 10 | It was unusual for her to have been alone then , but she had asked for time to herself . |
| 11 | She had cleared for Antwerp , where she spent a couple of days , and had then gone to West Africa , calling at several ports before returning to Antwerp . |
| 12 | She did not think it good , it was the first time she had played for weeks and the sounds she made disquieted her , but perhaps it was good enough for busking . |
| 13 | In 1936 , at a time when she had played for Yorkshire on 62 occasions , Mary married John Toogood , a Yorkshire businessman . |
| 14 | Before Luke arrived back she had arranged for details and menus to be sent to her home address , and she was humming softly when he came in . |
| 15 | Usually Beth accompanied her to town , but , seeing as the Hansom would be going right by the flower-shop , she had arranged for Cissie to be dropped off there . |
| 16 | She was beginning to realise that whatever Lydia felt for Beuno was different in kind from what she had felt for Finn , and this had eased her incipient unhappiness , for while it is one thing not to win the beloved it is another to see him swept off by somebody else , and far , far worse . |
| 17 | Oreste would die , she saw that now , for what was it she had felt for Ferdinando if not lust ? |
| 18 | It seemed very important just then to remember exactly what she had felt for Anthony at the beginning . |
| 19 | ‘ No , and it needs time and discipline as well as motivation , ’ Belinda murmured , the instinctive empathy she had felt for Faye growing as she heard more of the painter 's story . |
| 20 | Now , at last , she realised that whatever she had felt for Richard was long since buried , under an avalanche of hurt and disillusion . |
| 21 | She had sent for lawyers . |
| 22 | She had pleaded for help as eloquently as she could . |
| 23 | Cold with fear , she had waited for take-off , willing it not to happen , knowing it would . |
| 24 | Hyacinth felt excluded from it all , and rather wished she had waited for Carole Swan , or for Angela Cartwright , the delegation 's leader . |
| 25 | She could send him a proof of the article on the Holocaust she had written for Fem Sap . |
| 26 | She had hoped for Pascoe 's sake that the MacQuillan affair would fade from his mind , but perhaps his memory was already concealing from him the truth about the killing . |
| 27 | She had headed for Heathrow airport , not to fly anywhere but because she could be warm and alone . |
| 28 | Summoning all her reserves , she swam forcefully down the whole length of the pool , and back again , gradually realising that she felt fitter than she had done for ages . |
| 29 | He wondered , once , if she would weep for him as she had done for Ansaldo . |
| 30 | He had a lantern lit by the time she had dressed , wrapping herself last of all in the big , hooded cloak she had brought for Birsay . |