Example sentences of "she [vb past] [verb] for an " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd looked for an opening and had had to contrive her entry . |
| 2 | She seemed to wait for an initiative from her friend . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She had hoped for an audience with the Prime Minister , but had to be content with the publicity of being there . |
| 6 | It was so hot outside that she had settled for an orange cheesecloth caftan , which she 'd jacked in with a belt of linked gold hippos . |