Example sentences of "she [vb past] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | She experienced for the first time the frightening inhospitality of city streets . |
2 | She read for a long time , and I had the bonus of knowing my father was waiting impatiently to fuck her again on this night of nights which was really their honeymoon . |
3 | The next year she applied for the nursing course . |
4 | She made for the new extension , hoping she had imagined that speculative look in her young assistant 's eye , and feeling that she 'd better let him think the Palmer & Pearson file had dropped on her desk while he was absent on Friday . |
5 | She knew her limitations better than she knew her worth , and she taught in a private school because it gave her a little more latitude to come and go as she wished — an important point , since she cared for an old mother whom eighty years had made exacting . |
6 | She fought for the working class she fought for education she fought for everything to benefit the community she was a wonderful person ! |
7 | She realised for the first time how Benjamin must be feeling . |
8 | ‘ But only because when we turned up at the solicitor 's to work out the marriage settlement — her idea , not mine — she realised for the first time that I was n't as rich as she thought . |
9 | Speechless , she glared at him , then felt the colour start back to her cheeks as she realised for the first time what he was dressed in , which was very little indeed . |
10 | But as she sipped the hot , reviving brew , she realised for the first time since buying the house just how very quiet it was — eerily quiet . |
11 | She had n't missed him at all when he died , but now she realized for the first time that she had lost her father . |
12 | She realized for the first time fully consciously that she was ill at ease with , even afraid of , very tall men . |
13 | When she heard the voice of Sam 's mother she realized for the first time that it was more than likely that her own mother would , during the course of the evening , make some reference to the dinner-party which , she had been led to believe , was taking place in Pam 's house . |
14 | She had repaid £35 in seven monthly instalments of £5 , when she asked for a second loan . |
15 | She asked for a second helping of spinach . |
16 | Last year she asked for a big French dictionary for her birthday . ’ |
17 | Last time I went up she asked for a little bell , so she could ring for me . |
18 | ‘ But why ca n't I join Brownies , Mummy ? ’ she asked for the twentieth time . |
19 | She tried for a neutral tone . |
20 | She might have guessed that as soon as she tried for a little peace and quiet the whole place would be inundated with callers . |
21 | She tried for a brighter smile . |
22 | At the door , she stopped for the last time . |
23 | As the fire was crackling into life she headed for the small lavatory in the hall . |
24 | Abandoning an untouched plate of food , she headed for the nearest door . |
25 | She headed for the outsize black car that was parked opposite . |
26 | RUNAWAY teenager Nicola Rogers told today why she headed for the bright lights of Blackpool after leaving her home 100 miles away four days ago . |
27 | ‘ She suffered for a long time and although her father never knew about it , her mother did . ’ |
28 | She darted for the open doors and down the stone step to the garden . |
29 | She claimed she had never realised the significance of the tape , which she played for the first time ‘ weeks later ’ . |
30 | She noticed for the first time that he was wearing a pair of white , glowing incongruously in the twilight . |