Example sentences of "she [vb past] [verb] for [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sleepily she tried to adjust for this situation , flipping over and snuggling into the heated surface of his chest . |
| 2 | There was a long pause while she cleared the bed of her things , and she was aware of his eyes on her every movement as he checked over the items she 'd packed for any signs of decadence . |
| 3 | Geoff Tulloch got hold of the idea that she 'd worked for some corporation in Detroit for a year . |
| 4 | The two gods at whose shrines she 'd sacrificed for many years . |
| 5 | Kerry 's hair had been recently cut but she decided to go for another snip when she arrived at the studio . |
| 6 | One single man lived in lodgings and his landlady was in the habit of putting in a pudding basin the lunch she had prepared for that day , for him to have warmed up on the morrow . |
| 7 | He had realised it before she had , and somehow the sympathy that had been briefly in those blue eyes , that she had mistaken for some sort of liking , was far more disturbing than his hard , cool look . |
| 8 | She had to wait for some time before the door was opened , and she hoped very much that it would be opened by Clelia , but it was not ; it was opened by a thin , brown , balding , youngish looking man . |
| 9 | Soon after their marriage , Margaret 's depression , which she had suffered for some time , immediately lifted . |
| 10 | From time to time she suffered from bouts of depression as she had done for many years . |
| 11 | She had been offered a job called ‘ copy chief at one of the agency 's clients on the strength of the work she had done for this client at the agency . |
| 12 | Armed at all points against the possible disappointments of her life , conscious of the responsibilities of protecting her mother and sister , worried at the gaps in her education , anxious about nuns and antique dealers , she had forgotten for some time the necessity for personal happiness . |
| 13 | She had expected for some reason a warm and well-fleshed figure , dressed in tweeds saturated in the comforting perfume of unsmoked tobacco . |
| 14 | These were the words she had longed to hear , the ones she had wished for that day at the Trevi Fountain . |
| 15 | And it was n't Iris who told us , though she had known for some time that it had come through the Strait shortly after the Belgrano had been sunk . |
| 16 | ‘ She said she had known for some time that she and Fabien could not remain at La Tour Monchauzet after their marriage — that they had been talking together about moving away — of going , perhaps , as far as Australia or California and starting a totally new life . |
| 17 | Miss Grimes , with whom she had worked for several years , was hardly the most congenial of companions but at least she was familiar . |
| 18 | She had thought for some time that a mouse lived there . |
| 19 | Susan 's arm was so painful next morning and looked so inflamed that Breeze , as soon as she had foraged for some breakfast , went down to the village to find the doctor . |
| 20 | She put them under her raincoat in the basket and looked at the receipt the chemist had handed her from the till ; there was no evidence that she had paid for these items . |
| 21 | However , Lucy managed to convey that she intended to stay for several days , or perhaps for even a week . |