Example sentences of "she [verb] for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll bet she goes for Cybermen . |
| 2 | At the end of two years she applied for jobs with various banks and when I met her she had just been accepted as a trainee accounting technician . |
| 3 | She lived for occasions and would not miss one for the world . |
| 4 | When she turned on her mother , her face was scarlet and her double chin wobbled as she sought for words . |
| 5 | Desperately she sought for excuses when she knew there was none . |
| 6 | She refused to budge until she 'd got one or two matters in order , and , ignoring the fact that he looked ready to go and hunt up her bag himself if she did n't soon move herself , ‘ Is it all right for you to invite me to Mr and Mrs Hepwood 's home ? ’ she asked for starters , and braved his acid glance that said he 'd hardly be likely to issue an invitation if it was n't . |
| 7 | She asked for explanations which she received without comment , as if listening to someone who had just incriminated herself . |
| 8 | She posed for photographs with six winners of the George Medal and a holder of the George Cross , all of whom were honoured for their work in dismantling bombs . |
| 9 | ‘ Although Maureen seems to be kept busy driving after work and I think she looks better than she has for ages . ’ |
| 10 | She needs to find someone or something to blame for the catastrophe that has overtaken her , so she looks for reasons , because she may not yet be ready to face up to the extremely anxiety-provoking fact that life itself is unpredictable and the world is an insecure place . |
| 11 | Sometimes she stopped for hours to gaze across the sea , to peer between rocks , to watch an osprey ride the thermals . |
| 12 | Guessing what might greet her in the canteen , she opted for sandwiches in the laboratory , but because today no one else on the team was prepared to forgo his lunch-hour proper she was on her own until she was interrupted . |
| 13 | ‘ The architecture , the forests of trees , the very air , ’ she replied for starters . |
| 14 | ‘ I knew she went to a certain museum but I did n't know where else she went , nor any of her sources , nor what she paid for things . |
| 15 | Like Julian , who tells us that she wrestled for years with the problem of sin , Luther and St Teresa both struggled for some twenty years with a paralysing sense of their own sinfulness . |
| 16 | She hunted for memories : the rose and umber reefs of Mars lapped with Antarctic snowfields . |
| 17 | She campaigned for prisoners ' rights as secretary of the Women 's Prisoners ' Defence League from 1922 ; edited Prison Bars in 1937–8 ; and was the Republican party of Ireland candidate in the local government elections of 1936 . |
| 18 | In the early 1920s she campaigned for widows ' pensions . |
| 19 | The man she shared her bed with , the man she cooked for , the man she loved for decades , has turned into someone completely unrecognisable . |
| 20 | Lore went as a receptionist to an army hospital in Abergele and then was posted to Canterbury , where she worked for Personnel Selection . |
| 21 | Though she listened for sounds in the house , she heard none : Sir Gregory 's organization ran smoothly , and all the watchers would have been sent to their posts long before . |
| 22 | She asks for lists of their favourite records . |
| 23 | Alright , not use slang , show belief in the way he or she asks for recommendations |
| 24 | Alice thought , as she looked for signs to the Underground , I am frightened . |
| 25 | As she looked for things to furnish the house with , Signora Silvana , with her innate good taste and love of beautiful things , developed another interest — collecting antiques — and the result is the Country House Hotel . |
| 26 | The dimples she kept for emergencies suddenly appeared in Felicity 's cheeks . |
| 27 | She cried for hours , heart-broken . |
| 28 | She bawled for ages . |
| 29 | She battled for weeks to get the compound manager to fix the leak . |
| 30 | I remember one subject that required that she lay flat on the ground , and this she did for hours on end while I drew her . |