Example sentences of "[conj] she [verb] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had already spent an hour weeding and was determined to uproot a particularly tough dandelion ; then coffee , then the weekend shopping and then off to the sailing club where she had enrolled for a course of lessons in board-sailing . |
| 2 | Twelve days before her death Mrs Gilfoyle had started maternity leave from the Champion Spark Plug factory , where she had worked for 17 years . |
| 3 | Neighbours complained that 90-year-old Gladys Mills was making too much noise at her flat in Weymouth , Dorset , where she has lived for 12 years . |
| 4 | Maude 's telegram from the Queen was also expected this morning at Trees Park Village , near Middleton St George , where she has lived for the last seven years . |
| 5 | MORAG MACDONALD Company secretary at the Post Office , where she has worked for 22 years . |
| 6 | She teaches in a middle school where she has worked for many years . |
| 7 | Each bird seemed to know exactly which Minpin it was collecting , and each Minpin knew exactly which bird he or she had ordered for the morning . |
| 8 | The idea is that every person has another person ( or sometimes a group or committee ) to whom he or she has to account for the proper discharge of responsibilities . |
| 9 | Anyone suffering from a mental handicap and who is living in a mental hospital must complete a declaration that he or she wishes to register for the right to vote . |
| 10 | ALTHOUGH SHE HATE POSING FOR PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS SHE NEVER MINDED WHEN BERNARD WANTED TO USE HER AS A MODEL . |
| 11 | ‘ She is a good little actress although she has opted for the dancing course here . |
| 12 | Although she did call for a fuller apprenticeship for women , Amelia McLean did not argue ( nor did anyone else ) that the Monotype made old-fashioned apprentice ships redundant , and that by a historical reversal of the usual procedure , women compositors in 1910 actually controlled a skilled process while men did not . |
| 13 | The exchange between them had been painful , but there was something so honest and open about it that she felt freed for the first time in months from her painful awareness of him as a man . |
| 14 | To her great relief , however , Fabia subsequently discovered that she had asked for a quite delicious meal of venison with bacon , mushrooms and tomatoes . |
| 15 | It turned out that she had gone for a hill walk on her own with an agreed pick up point by him in the car . |
| 16 | It was true also that she gave English lessons and that she had applied for a full-time job as an English teacher in a small private school . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | As it happened , this queen mother was the most remarkable and able of them all , and it is therefore something of an irony that she had to wait for twelve years , until 1554 , and stage a successful coup , before obtaining the place which earlier queen mothers had immediately enjoyed . |
| 19 | She wanted desperately to reach out to him , but she knew that she had to wait for him to make the first move . |
| 20 | It seemed to Tallis that she had smouldered for a long time before finally the fire had taken hold . |
| 21 | Clelia 's visit , however , was all that she had hoped for . |
| 22 | She said that she knew about it and that she had known for quite a while . |
| 23 | Candida Gray , Candida Gray , a name that she had known for as many years as she had known any such names ; she had not read as many of the novels as she ought to have done , but she had read one at least , and that one she actually remembered . |
| 24 | A bedroom that she had known for at least ten of her seventeen years . |
| 25 | It was impossible to do anything except admit something that she had known for a very long time . |
| 26 | The pint of milk and newspapers that she had ordered for her arrival were correctly outside the front door . |
| 27 | Other speakers followed , but it soon became clear that she had spoken for ail present . |
| 28 | As she took her wedding vows , Diana was saying goodbye to the life that she had taken for granted for twenty years . |
| 29 | She was able to conceal her restlessness , the pacing about , her dream of a different beginning to a new life , her impatience with the old shapes that she had used for too long ; she was not young and was old enough to foresee failure . |
| 30 | 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 . |