Example sentences of "[verb] [noun prp] for [art] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He asked Sarah for the photo and he was doing his usual stuff , you know , hand on heart . |
| 2 | It is only now , almost five years after the fact , that the US press corps and America 's allies are beginning to see Gramm-Rudman-Hollings for the hoax that it is . |
| 3 | Once , after a long negotiation , Swire invited Bevin for a drink and a sandwich at the City of London Club , and was reprimanded by the chairman for having brought ‘ a working man into the club ’ . |
| 4 | Experience has shown that it is not enough to train PHCNs for a year and then send to isolated rural clinics . |
| 5 | But Flynn is not pushing Harper for a decision and is happy to leave things in the air for a fortnight or so . |
| 6 | He had studied and pondered the case , and was immersed in it ; he tried talking to both Marco and Eddie , and pursues Marco for the promise that could save Eddie 's life . |
| 7 | I admired George for the care and attention he gave to Lennie . |
| 8 | An ankle tendon injury , suffered at practice on the very day he completed his century at Durham , side-lined Smith for a fortnight but he is most certainly a name to watch this summer . |
| 9 | He begged his uncle to let him meet Cathy for a walk or a ride on the moors between the Grange and Wuthering Heights , as they could not meet in either house . |
| 10 | It released Strachan for a pull-back that Wallace switched from right foot to left before beating the sluggish Beasant with a mis-hit shot into the bottom corner . |
| 11 | ‘ Everyone is tipping Arsenal for the title and they have the best drilled team with some exciting strikers in Ian Wright , Paul Merson , Kevin Campbell and Anders Limpar , ’ said Waddle . |
| 12 | He watched Harry for a while and then , cautiously , opened the mini bar and took out a block of chocolate . |
| 13 | Herr Genscher proposed a number of joint German-US measures , including blaming Serbia for the fighting and suspending its membership of the CSCE . |
| 14 | Finch disapproved of Flynn coming to work in such a state , but when drunken Flynn caused chaos on the set , Finch knew that the fading swashbuckler was incapable of filming for that day , so he would join Flynn for a drink and a sing-song . |
| 15 | It would be a tremendous blow if Boro lost Pears for a game that could guarantee a Premier League place . |
| 16 | He asked Stan for a job but he would n't give him one |
| 17 | It took Russell almost three weeks to call Ellen for a date and when they did meet he was 45 minutes late . |
| 18 | After creating the maximum of confusion , they piled into the Lancia and set off back along the road for their rendezvous with the LRDG , accompanied by an Italian whom they had taken prisoner after he had foolishly asked Lewes for a light while the latter was placing a bomb on his truck . |
| 19 | If Chapman had become football 's forgotten man , he was about to put himself , and his new club , in the public eye again , for on 16 March , 1921 Huddersfield bought Stephenson for a fee that was ‘ probably the highest ever paid by a Yorkshire club ’ — £4,000 . |
| 20 | Gorbachev eventually proved willing not only to condemn Stalin for the imprisonment and execution of loyal Russians in the 1930s , but also to concede that Stalin had secretly divided eastern Europe with Hitler in 1939 . |
| 21 | Mother-of-three Miss Campbell , who has been married twice , decorated Sunninghill for the Duke and Duchess of York 's marriage and did Romenda Lodge for the Duchess after they separated . |
| 22 | Wendy , very kindly , checked Billy 's carriage on her own machine when it was giving trouble and when , rather embarrassingly , it blew a fuse on Wendy 's console , she did n't even charge Billy for the replacement and repairs . |
| 23 | She called the Diocesan Office of Special Religious Education to request help in preparing Todd for the Sacrament and mentioned the chaplain 's reluctance to give Communion because of Todd 's lack of verbal ability . |
| 24 | I did n't it has to be said win the pools last year as I always put Leeds for a win and Scum for a loss . |
| 25 | I 've been using RapidCad for a month or so and It 's not given me the slightest problem . |
| 26 | we had Roy and then we had Simon for a bit and then we decided because it was n't working altogether an Edinburgh person and a Glasgow person |
| 27 | Thank God for the work that S C F is doing there , his only hope through counselling , of being able to regain any form of normality . |
| 28 | In Whit Week 1850 over 200,000 day-trippers left Manchester for the countryside and the sea . |
| 29 | Zambia , however , trying to compensate for whatever information they 'd picked up about hir , offered to entertain Nathan for the afternoon so that Roirbak could begin work with Ari . |
| 30 | Firstly we had Robbie for a teacher and he certainly was awkward . |