Example sentences of "she opted for " in BNC.

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1 For the interview she opted for a cream silk shirt , and a tailored black skirt .
2 So she opted for desperate measures to get him to change his image .
3 I suppose she was the sort who would normally have been commissioned , but , all credit to her , she opted for the ranks and she was certainly finding out how the other half lived .
4 Neufville ran for Cambridge Harriers in South East London though she opted for competing for Jamaica in the prestigious games .
5 She opted for a sculpture class .
6 Guessing what might greet her in the canteen , she opted for sandwiches in the laboratory , but because today no one else on the team was prepared to forgo his lunch-hour proper she was on her own until she was interrupted .
7 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 .
8 She opted for the oilskins .
9 Her heart was pounding and , realising there was no point in pretending any longer , she opted for frankness , saying , ‘ It would only be lust . ’
10 She opted for the safety of the latter .
11 As promises were broken and things started to crumble she opted for St Martin 's School of Art .
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