Example sentences of "she [verb] [vb pp] for [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time she has budgeted for these basics she has £50 left for the six-week holiday . |
| 2 | For her , there is some slight security in the continuity of attending to all the basic daily household tasks as she has done for many years , but when his ‘ first wave ’ of helpers begins to depart he will have to learn to do much more for himself to keep his home going , which will be an added burden to those he is already carrying . |
| 3 | She has argued for more competition in state lottery tenders . |
| 4 | She teaches in a middle school where she has worked for many years . |
| 5 | Beryl Smith is giving up these classes all of which she has taken for many years . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Geoff Tulloch got hold of the idea that she 'd worked for some corporation in Detroit for a year . |
| 8 | The two gods at whose shrines she 'd sacrificed for many years . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Soon after their marriage , Margaret 's depression , which she had suffered for some time , immediately lifted . |
| 12 | From time to time she suffered from bouts of depression as she had done for many years . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She had expected for some reason a warm and well-fleshed figure , dressed in tweeds saturated in the comforting perfume of unsmoked tobacco . |
| 16 | These were the words she had longed to hear , the ones she had wished for that day at the Trevi Fountain . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | Miss Grimes , with whom she had worked for several years , was hardly the most congenial of companions but at least she was familiar . |
| 20 | She had thought for some time that a mouse lived there . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | But no , she 's gone for this promotion in work and er even though she does n't think she 's much chance of getting it because there 's two permanent lads there that really you know would be next in line rather than her sort of thing but she 's you know , she feels she 's done her bit and that , you know , it 's worth going for and like I said to her you might as well ! |