Example sentences of "she [verb] for the " in BNC.
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| 31 | She realised for the first time how Benjamin must be feeling . |
| 32 | ‘ 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 . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | ‘ She lived for the family and they all worshipped her . ’ |
| 36 | She was pretty and popular and she lived for the moment . |
| 37 | It still sleeps with its mother in the rudimentary nest she builds for the night but practises building nests for itself . |
| 38 | Had she arranged for the sets to be changed three times during a dinner party , she would have seen to it that everybody noticed . |
| 39 | Why had n't she arranged for the house to be sold so that Fabien de Rochefort could at least be repaid to some extent ? |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | She realized for the first time fully consciously that she was ill at ease with , even afraid of , very tall men . |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | I forgot to give it to Madge when she asked for the keys . |
| 44 | ‘ But why ca n't I join Brownies , Mummy ? ’ she asked for the twentieth time . |
| 45 | She asked for the duty sergeant . |
| 46 | She asked for the ambulance service . |
| 47 | She asked for the secretary and launched on a long story about phoning from a restaurant where a pair of leather gloves had been found apparently left by the lady with Mr Johnston whom one of the waiters had remembered seeing at the sports club . |
| 48 | The illustrations she produced for the book were based on copies of old master paintings . |
| 49 | The illustrations she produced for the book were based on copies of old master paintings . |
| 50 | ‘ Basically , we are just much more tolerant than men , ’ says Judith Jackson , one of the tiny minority of female motoring correspondents — she writes for The Guardian and Homes & Gardens . |
| 51 | She dresses for the most part in a pink frilly fairy costume in which she walks down to the beach , paints , dances and collects snails . |
| 52 | She stands for the civilization of the South , of the Midi , the home of the troubadours , against the sterner , rougher , cruder world of the North , represented , in this image , by her husband , the King of the North Wind , whose authority she is subtly undermining and against whom she will soon break out in open rebellion . |
| 53 | And it is Britain she thanks for the startling transformation and thinks will keep her at the top . |
| 54 | It sounds like the Velvet Underground mixed with … ’ — and she searches for the appropriate ingredient — ‘ … with Nico . ’ |
| 55 | As she searches for the killer of a diamond merchant , Melanie falls for the rabbi 's son , played by flashing-eyed newcomer Eric Thal . |
| 56 | THOROUGHLY MODEST MRS : Fergie covers up as she heads for the pool |
| 57 | But she heads for the kitchen , just the same . |
| 58 | A little light patter while she looks for the file . |
| 59 | At the door , she stopped for the last time . |
| 60 | She reviewed for the Sunday papers and appeared on television in a programme called Talking After Hours , giving her views on art , morals , current affairs . |