Example sentences of "she [verb] be for " in BNC.
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1 | Essentially , what she wants is for Berowne to discover what is serious in life , and to stop fooling all the time . |
2 | As Elisabeth , Rosalind Plowright sounded more secure than she has been for some time on British stages and sang her last aria with true Verdian pathos and passion . |
3 | She will stay with the man at whose side she has been for years , Secretary of State James Baker . |
4 | She then moved to Bristol City Council where she has been for some months . |
5 | In July 1944 Attlee presented a paper on ‘ Foreign Policy and the Flying Bomb ’ , which pointed out that it would henceforth be impossible for Britain to rely upon the English Channel as a defence against her enemies : From our point of view , Norway , Denmark , Holland and France are necessary outposts of Britain and , in as much as Britain is now as she has been for a hundred years a shield for the U.S. , outposts of America as well . |
6 | She has been for weeks . ’ |
7 | However , the London season was almost upon them and she was more cheerful than she 'd been for weeks . |
8 | Luke Calder was used to getting what he wanted from life , and the last thing she needed was for him to turn his sights on to her , even though it might only be to put her back in her place ! |
9 | Until she 'd made up her mind one way or the other , the last thing she needed was for rumours of an imminent retirement from music to start circulating . |
10 | The last thing she needed was for the plane to go without her . |
11 | She left a little while later , happier than she had been for a long time . |
12 | The battered red car arrived at 7pm , Maria Yackle was dressed as she had been for her previous visit , but because it was rather cold , wore a jacket made of synthetic fur as well . |
13 | Agnes , tanned , huge , all beads and bright caftan , determined to give birth in the lotus position ( in which she claimed the child had been conceived ) while going ‘ Om ’ , refused to answer any of my father 's questions about where she had been for the three years and who she had been with . |
14 | The last thing she wanted was for Tom to take her under his wing , to regard her in some sense as his find and his property , but that was what was happening . |
15 | All she wanted was for him to leave and take his tantalising , lying promises away with him . |
16 | The last thing she wanted was for the local press to find out that she had a personal interest in finding Angy 's killer . |
17 | Frankly , the last thing she wanted was for him to come too close . |
18 | In that instant all she wanted was for him to take her in his arms again ; to know the sweet pressure of his mouth on hers and to feel once more the way her body had come alive beneath his hands . |
19 | The last thing she wanted was for him to know just how badly his words had affected her . |
20 | Deal or no mysterious deal , now that it had been established that he had not tracked her down all she wanted was for him to go . |
21 | Now all she wanted was for him to go , so she could sit down and think it over . |
22 | She 's been the middle school , she 's been for a visit to the middle school |
23 | She 's been for the week |