Example sentences of "[conj] she [vb past] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've got a list of phone numbers , it seems like fifty , of different people who have been invoked — the doctor , the home help , district nurse , chiropodist , social worker , hospital doctor , Age Concern , the Red Cross , the old people 's home where she went for a break and dozens more , I hardly know who they are . |
| 2 | She can rarely have travelled , for example , more than fifteen miles from Brackley , Northamptonshire , where she lived for most of her twenty-four years . |
| 3 | On one occasion her piano was dragged up a hillside to the door of an isolation hut , where she sang for five rather surprised soldiers . |
| 4 | The second daughter , Katarina ( Tinka ) , also graduated from the College , where she taught for a time . |
| 5 | Her little apartment had become their home , where she cooked for him and they shared all the daylight hours together . |
| 6 | Her parents then moved to London and admitted her as a free scholar to the sculpture studio in the Royal College of Art , where she stayed for four years and graduated an A.R.C.A. |
| 7 | After time off to have children , she became a secretary at Kendall Primary School , Colchester , where she stayed for five years before moving at Myland . |
| 8 | Dorothy , the eldest , went to the maternal grandparents , where she stayed for a number of years . |
| 9 | It was a childhood where she wanted for nothing materially but everything emotionally . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Renowned for her ‘ tomboyish tastes ’ ( she would , even in evening dress , always carry a knife and some string about her person ) , Emma went on to the School for Ornamental Art and began to support early Victorian feminist causes , making an initial living as a restorer of stained-glass windows notably in the chapel of Merton College , Oxford , where she worked for two years in the early 1860s . |
| 12 | And although she listened for the sound of his steps , she did not hear them . |
| 13 | ‘ I know very little about her , although she worked for him in the war too . |
| 14 | The parents would never give Joanne anything ( from a list of non-essentials ) that she asked for . |
| 15 | She did nothing much about it — Eismark was still just somebody in shipping , not a politician — and it was only when he came onto the Secretariat that she asked for money to do some more work about it . ’ |
| 16 | That might in itself imply that she felt for some reason that she would be suspected , or perhaps she knew who the killer was and preferred to keep quiet . |
| 17 | Dr Neil was not in any way surprised at McAllister 's reaction to his lovemaking ; he expected such modesty from a well brought up young girl , and her arms around his neck , her timid responses , fluttering though they were , told him that she felt for him what he felt for her , and further inflamed his own passion , while warning him to go gently . |
| 18 | On the reverse of each plate is Cicely Mary Barker 's original poem that she penned for each fairy . |
| 19 | that she wore for her mum 's , it 's peach |
| 20 | He said it was n't long and that she worried for nothing and I changed the subject . |
| 21 | He gazed at her in silence that she took for acceptance . |
| 22 | She so wanted grandparents , that she appealed for a couple in the local paper to act as adopted granny and grandad . |
| 23 | What does the patients charter offer to the woman in Wandsworth who last month found that she could not have her second child in the hospital that she chose for her first child because her health authority has no contract with that hospital ? |
| 24 | She says that she screamed for help — another two minutes and the twins would have died because of all the smoke and flames . |
| 25 | Capsules that she had for years . |
| 26 | Ven made no move to detain her , not that she had for a second considered that he might . |
| 27 | that she looked for against sunset |
| 28 | Victoria was an extremely pretty young woman , and it was obvious that she cared for Miguel Rafaelo . |
| 29 | The debate as to whether this institutional framework exercised a determining ( ideological ) influence on film output has been an ongoing one , but the importance of Claire Johnston 's contribution to it in the mid seventies is that she argued for a reading of Hollywood entertainment films which made a space for ‘ collective fantasies of women 's desire ’ . |
| 30 | He went to her and put his arm round her shoulders , dimly aware that he might have hurried her but still convinced that she longed for his comfort and protection . |