Example sentences of "[Wh adv] she [vb past] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | How she longed for the excitement of blasting away slimy aliens . |
| 2 | Lord , how she longed for some such measure of security ! |
| 3 | If only she could tell him how she longed for him to carry her off , but would n't that make him think her wanton ? |
| 4 | A wife 's vivid account of how she cared for her declining husband . |
| 5 | Alison Berry describes how she cared for a patient with a difficult leg wound in the community |
| 6 | Mrs Seaton 's husband died so she did n't have no money — that 's why she worked for us . |
| 7 | RUNAWAY teenager Nicola Rogers told today why she headed for the bright lights of Blackpool after leaving her home 100 miles away four days ago . |
| 8 | Lowe was twelve when she married for the third time — to a psychologist — and he arrived , all corn-fed and terminally uncool , in Malibu . |
| 9 | Today , when she went for Lin Foh , she would have to find a firmer resolve . |
| 10 | Farrelly met Sinead when she advertised for a band in an Irish music paper . |
| 11 | In the Spring issue of the magazine , a correspondent reminisced about the days when she collected for ‘ black babies ’ . |
| 12 | These all turned out to be negative and the examining doctor decided to take rectal samples when she returned for her results as he felt she would be unlikely to come back a third time . |
| 13 | Jo Durie , Britain 's No. 1 ranked player , delivered an honest assessment of the needs of aspiring young tennis champions when she called for the pressure to be taken off youngsters , particularly those between the crucial ages of 10–14 . |
| 14 | The conclusive Senate vote was scheduled for Oct. 8 , but had to be delayed for seven days following revelation of new evidence from Anita Hill , 35 , a black University of Oklahoma teacher of law , who alleged that Thomas had subjected her to sexual harassment with explicit , pornographic suggestions when she worked for him at the Department of Education and the EEOC in the early 1980s . |
| 15 | She would have to do it tomorrow when she arrived for Christmas lunch just before noon . |
| 16 | MARGARET WINDSOR , a mathematical modeller in Harwell 's Combustion Centre could n't believe her eyes when she arrived for work . |
| 17 | There had been tears in her eyes as she crossed the road with him to Mario 's and he brought two cups of coffee and two club milk chocolate biscuits to the plastic-topped table where she waited for him . |
| 18 | Esther Clark moved to Tetbury , where she cared for her step-daughter and took an active interest in local charities . |
| 19 | She was lifted out of her perch above the engine and made for the customs shed where she asked for a mirror so that she could restore order to her wrecked coiffure before she went into Paris . |
| 20 | In 1912 she was elected as a Labour councillor in the London borough of Kensington , where she pressed for public provision of baby clinics , school meals , improved council housing , employment schemes , and prohibition of sweated labour . |
| 21 | Vanessa Thompson , who lives in Brussels , decided to make the study when her husband 's job forced her to leave the pretty village where she lived for eight years . |
| 22 | Perhaps more significantly , however , it is where she paid for lunch on a number of occasions with James Gilbey , her swooning suitor of The Squidgy Tapes fame . |
| 23 | Lore went as a receptionist to an army hospital in Abergele and then was posted to Canterbury , where she worked for Personnel Selection . |
| 24 | At CBS , where she worked for eight years , she remembers up to a hundred tapes pouring into the office each week . |
| 25 | He got a job in insurance and the marriage lasted about three years and three months , then Bunny found out that his quiet , dutiful wife had been having an affair with her boss at the food research place where she worked for roughly three years and two months . |
| 26 | She grew up in the area , most recently living in Northallerton where she worked for North Yorkshire county council . |
| 27 | Ruth drove on to Puerto de Sóller where she stopped for refreshment on the seafront where trams rumbled behind her . |
| 28 | Miranda fled , unseeing down the dark passage to the lavatory where she sat for a very long time feeling sick to her stomach . |
| 29 | On returning to the USA she joined the UMC 's Board of Global Ministries where she stayed for 29 years until her retirement in 1990 . |