Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [noun sg] for [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ It 's terribly difficult , I keep having to read it again to try and work it out , ’ Gordon says by telephone from New York , where she is enjoying the acclaim for After the War , last summer 's Frederic Raphael TV series for Granada in which she played the Raphael alter ego 's wife . |
2 | Five months pregnant with her fifth child , Emecheta fled and ended up in a council block for problem families , which became the setting for In The Ditch . |
3 | It was fairly crowded , but I found a place for at the side and bought a beaker of No-tox Fungi-beer which tastes like mouldy bread but leave your head clear . |
4 | I 'd forgotten that was what I 'd picked a Gnat for in the first place It sounded horrible , coming from him . |
5 | You were right in saying that there was very bad press given to hormone replacement therapy in in the early days when they used very high doses of of er un er , of normal oestrogens and this caused an increase in the amount of end of uterus , uterine cancer and this I think has generally er mo mo mo ruined the course for for the older doctors because they still think that it 's associated with an increase in cancer and they have n't got up to date to realise that the more modern preparations are not causing this and that 's where I think th the problems li lie . |
6 | Now that seems to us to be a very good way forward in establishing a framework for for the consideration of those sort of proposals . |
7 | And they really do have problems with getting customers to promise an order for up the line and keep it . |
8 | the main , er the usual recurring cost was er redecorating cost which we had introduced a fund for on the outset |
9 | Yet he was unwilling to take leave , treating his engagement as settled , without some more conventional glance in that direction than he could find an opening for in the manner of the large , affable lady who sat there drawing a pair of soiled gants de Suede through a fat , jewelled hand and , at once pressing and gliding , repeated over and over everything but the thing he would have liked to hear ( 2 ) . |