Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [verb] [pers pn] for [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Apply it with a roller in a thin , even coat and let it dry without disturbing it for a good 24 hours . |
| 2 | and we were saying last year we could of done with having him for a bit |
| 3 | The principal method is the study of hoards , since coins have frequently been deposited in hoards for safe-keeping and their owners have often been prevented from recovering them for a variety of reasons such as death or forgetfulness . |
| 4 | ‘ I think that certainly helped in preparing me for the jump — after all I had three years to think about it , ’ said Nigel . |
| 5 | I spoke to myself and I did n't listen : meaningless words on deaf ears , although they were true , and whoever I was meant them , and whoever I was speaking to knew them for the truth . |
| 6 | Its efficacy could then be assessed by substituting it for the dictionary definitions in the overlap program . |
| 7 | We are justified in using it for a quality of material things only if the quality is like the bodily sensation . |
| 8 | Therefore we are not justified in using it for a quality of material things . |
| 9 | There may in fact be some differences in these time intervals and in other pathogenetic factors between Kock pouches and pelvic pouches , but in view of the general clinical similarities between the RP syndromes in these two forms of pouch ( Table V ) , we have felt justified in combining them for the purposes of our analysis . |
| 10 | Dozzell said : ‘ I thought about wearing it for the last few minutes , but I did n't think it would go down too well . |
| 11 | He met two artists , husband and wife , ‘ awfully sweet , she has a bold yet subtle and exotic sense of colour ’ , and thought of trying her for the costumes ; he had already got another artist to try and ‘ you never saw such revue in all your life ’ . |
| 12 | As he cried out , she insisted on taking him for a drive in her car . |
| 13 | She intended to plead her own nervousness and her desire not to be destined for public exhibition and planned to finish by thanking him for the compliment of his request and wishing him well in finding a more practised model . |
| 14 | If the craving returned , I could cope by contemplating it for an hour or two , until it went away . |
| 15 | Two of the bigger boys from Thorpe Street had once tried to outswing him for a dare , but Barry Lock had turned chicken at the last minute and Valance Fraser , who fancied himself as the cock of the street , had managed only a partial swing that left him dangling by his arms in the dirt . |
| 16 | They 've economised by reducing it for the handout . |
| 17 | The temptation to say the coin caused the bar to come out can be explained by seeing it for the ordinary cause that it was , and of what event it was the cause , and of what nearby event it was not the cause . |
| 18 | What possible reason could a sane man have for thanking her for an evening that had never happened ? |