Example sentences of "she [modal v] [verb] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the life she led it would have been all too easy to succumb to the myriad temptations on offer , but she had seen them for the shallow , worthless things they were , and valued her self-respect too highly to accept dross when she knew she must seek for gold . |
| 2 | Any personal animosity she might feel for Niall Grant must be set aside . |
| 3 | There was one particular youth whom she thought she might approach for information . |
| 4 | With more hair she could pass for Springsteen being playful in the dark . |
| 5 | She could sit for hours in the sun these days , content to watch Pilade play , doing nothing whatsoever . |
| 6 | Yeah , she could go for Andy . |
| 7 | asked where she could pay for sex in London . |
| 8 | The murdering sun had dipped below the horizon , and this was the time when she could forage for food . |
| 9 | Mrs Lindo , however , had sworn that she could account for Drew 's movements up to 5pm that evening . |
| 10 | Pete suggested that in a few days ' time he could take her out to the nearest big town on the coast , and there she could look for clothes in the department stores and check out the library for the addresses of any useful organisations or people to contact . |
| 11 | Occasionally , he took his hand off the gear lever and reached out for hers , and sometimes he glanced towards her with a look so full of tenderness that she felt she could weep for joy . |
| 12 | Which was more than she could say for Uriah Colclough , a spare , already balding man in his mid-thirties who , having been torn all his life between a religious vocation and a natural Colclough desire to make money , lived like an industrialist but dressed like a vicar . |
| 13 | From the slight incline where she sat she could see for miles the neatly sown fields , the healthy crops and the spotless cattle . |
| 14 | She was to discover that she could see for miles from the attic windows — almost the whole of Bristol . |
| 15 | From its windows she could see for miles , across fields and trees to the aerodrome beyond . |
| 16 | She could see for miles . |
| 17 | Mrs Whitehouse , in turn , began to organise those organisations on whom she felt she could count for support . |
| 18 | She was murdered before she could call for help . |
| 19 | Throughout the long evenings she worked in the garden and planned what bulbs she would plant for spring flowers . |
| 20 | Sometimes she would disappear for days . |
| 21 | When asked about this revolt the Prime Minister replied that he ‘ thought speed was important and hoped she would send for Lord Home immediately-as soon as she got back to the Palace ’ . |
| 22 | Anne came back with cigarettes and chocolate and magazines and said goodbye to Terry , then she said she would wait for Sarah at the entrance and left them together . |
| 23 | And she would turn for confirmation to Reginald Forrest , who played the comic characters or heavy villains and whose deep voice could often be heard singing , falsetto , some of the women 's songs . |
| 24 | She would lie for hours — days even , for she had lost all interest in time — in an abstraction of pain , her bruised mind slipping and struggling and relapsing into a slough . |
| 25 | He continued to see Jennifer on a regular basis and over the years ; she would come for holidays and weekends , and he did the loving-father duties , which he treated seriously , and never shirked his responsibilities . |
| 26 | When the landlord 's agents and the militia arrived , the tenants offered the whole of next year 's rent in advance if only Mrs. Pedelty would leave them at peace ; it had taken half an hour to get word to her of this offer and to bring back her refusal Then they asked for compensation for the land they had cleared and she sent back to say if they persisted in the claim she would sue for dilapidation and waste . |
| 27 | I am training her so that she can cook for royalty , ’ Auguste declared grandly . |
| 28 | When she 's happy she can sleep for hours in the same position . |