Example sentences of "she [vb past] for an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She made for an armchair , knowing it would be wise to keep him at a distance , but she did n't reach it . |
| 2 | Desperately she sought for an excuse , anything not to have to face his mother 's frosty manner again , but before she could think of anything he said , ‘ On second thoughts , I have a better idea . ’ |
| 3 | She asked for an orange juice , and while he was at the bar she found a table in the window . |
| 4 | On 8 August 1991 Feigen was approached by Hildenbrand : ‘ She asked for an appointment as an official of the museum and brought various Harmo Museum catalogues and credentials with her ’ . |
| 5 | However , when he later became drowsy she telephoned for an ambulance to take him to hospital . |
| 6 | She has a tendency to hug herself tightly when grappling with a question , and at one point , when I asked her how she saw herself in the future , grown up and faced with decisions about her own children , she panicked for an instant and had to be consoled by the female interpreter . |
| 7 | Forcing herself , she worked for an hour or two on the great heap of stuff purloined from the skips that lay in a corner of the hall ; fitting a curtain here , laying a rug there . |
| 8 | She called for an exposure of the headhunting industry as a whole , accusing consultants of a variety of sins : of perpetuating another form of updated old-boy network , of ignorance about systematic interviewing practice , of poor report writing , of rushing through assignments as quickly as possible and of an inability to handle complex , highly specialist assignments : they would either fail to find anyone or send someone completely unsuitable . |
| 9 | She disappeared for an instant and opened her front door . |
| 10 | She looked for an escape gap , but the crowd had shifted again and closed up . |
| 11 | She went for an hour and a half to give him a hot cooked dinner , which she had prepared in the morning , and to wash up afterwards . |
| 12 | Immediately , she sent for an ambulance and he was taken to the Mary Abbots Hospital in Kensington , where he died soon afterwards . |
| 13 | She felt for an instant the brush of his breath against her hair . |
| 14 | She paused for an instant . |
| 15 | She waited ; it seemed she waited for an eternity . |
| 16 | HOSPITAL officials have pledged to investigate allegations that a 90-year-old patient was not properly cared for while she waited for an operation . |
| 17 | ‘ All right , all right , ’ she quickly agreed as it dawned on her that if he was who she thought he was then she was going about it completely the wrong way if she hoped for an interview . |