Example sentences of "she [verb] for a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She read for a long time , and I had the bonus of knowing my father was waiting impatiently to fuck her again on this night of nights which was really their honeymoon . |
| 2 | When she requires a new cooker , she begs for a small loan from the Department of Social Security . |
| 3 | Last time I went up she asked for a little bell , so she could ring for me . |
| 4 | She stands for a long moment . |
| 5 | If you are to be awkward then my mother will not know where she stands for a good deal of time . ’ |
| 6 | She tried for a neutral tone . |
| 7 | IT will be a great relief to Abi King at the Arts Theatre if the props she needs for a new play can be turned up by the public at large . |
| 8 | ‘ She suffered for a long time and although her father never knew about it , her mother did . ’ |
| 9 | She changed into her shorts — Fen had donned his before they went shopping — and , remembering Fen 's earlier insinuations , she opted for a baggy T-shirt which , she hoped , made her figure as sexless as a boy 's , then went aloft , tense , wary , uncertain of her reception . |
| 10 | As she hunted for a worn pair of leather gloves in the pocket of her pelisse , she did not appear to notice that she had been pulled closely in to the gentleman for a few brief seconds . |
| 11 | For instance : ‘ You should lose weight ’ , ‘ You should n't be so inarticulate at work ’ , ‘ You should n't pursue money as a goal ’ , ‘ You should be kinder to your mother when she phones for a long chat . ’ |
| 12 | She walked for a long time , while the feeling of the streets changed to night . |
| 13 | She walked for a long time , past hundreds of doors . |
| 14 | From 1915 to 1922 she was chairman of the Women 's International League for Peace , which aimed to harness feminism to the peace movement ; and throughout World War I she campaigned for a negotiated peace and the establishment of an international peace-keeping organization . |
| 15 | She calls for a national policy for dealing with runaway children , and more government funding . |
| 16 | She chatted for a long time to a friendly Madame Pompadour , who professed to love Wales and bombarded her with intimate questions . |
| 17 | She had for a while become a Monotype operator , on one of the " women 's machines " , and also remembers " trying to do imposition " and doing a little display work in one mainly jobbing firm where she worked for a short time . |
| 18 | She kneels for a red flower , picks it , later |
| 19 | She settled for a continental breakfast , substituting two slices of freshly baked tresse , a plaited white loaf , for the conventional croissant . |
| 20 | She called for a formal review of the whole case by Mrs Kemp , now she was back in her post . |
| 21 | Rosemary had been to Venice and seen the original bridge , and she enthused for a long time on the beauties of that city and how much she would like to go there again after the war was over . |
| 22 | She said where 's that fucking Tara she gone for a fucking blow again and they 're all laughing and she said what are you fucking bastards laughing at and there 's Tara there with tears down her face Tara tried to tell her she fell off the chair well that was it . |
| 23 | He said that on her birthday he asked her what she had learnt from life , and she thought for a long time , and then said : ‘ That people are morally the same , and intellectually different . ’ |
| 24 | She thought for a long time , not looking at him , but at the glowing red centre of the range . |
| 25 | " She counted for a great deal in the palace " in the sense that she had privileged access to Louis and thus could be a helpful patron . |
| 26 | She lay for a long while , the tears falling . |
| 27 | She lay for a long time in the enveloping warmth of the bath-water , feeling a strange sense of sadness . |
| 28 | She hesitated for a long moment , then suddenly thrust out her arm . |
| 29 | She aimed for a light-hearted tone . |
| 30 | Angry and hurt , she aimed for a vulnerable spot . |