Example sentences of "[verb] [pos pn] [noun] [coord] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In its cover story of the 15 April 1966 issue of Time said , ‘ In this century , every decade has its city and for the Sixties , that city is London . |
| 2 | They were not even given their wings and for the next two years , on the ‘ last in last out ’ principle , they had to endure the insufferable tedium of waiting for demobilisation . |
| 3 | The wife obligingly lifted her arm and for the first time there was a flash of something pale , as if to show that there really was flesh and blood beneath the shapeless black garment . |
| 4 | She stuffed her handkerchief into her mouth ; it was large enough to cover her nose and for the faint scent of lavender-water to obliterate the worst of the putrefaction . |
| 5 | country in Europe so they think they 're going to be testing their weapons and for the |
| 6 | Nora Fanshawe raised her head and for the first time he saw her smile , an ugly harsh smile of self-mockery . |
| 7 | There is an objectivity behind the subjectivity of our preferences which entitles you to recommend to me a dish which you do not choose yourself and which I have hitherto been repelled by , but may come to like if I can forget my prejudices and for the first time attend closely to the flavour . |
| 8 | She braved herself to meet his eyes , wondering if he too had lost his appetite and for the same reason as her . |
| 9 | This is hard , since on a busy day you will sometimes have to wait quite a while for the waiter to take your order or for the arrival of the food . |
| 10 | To compensate us for the expense of processing your booking and for the risk that we may not be able to resell the holiday we charge a cancellation fee on the scale shown below . |