Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pers pn] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | a Services Division to support them for a transitional period |
| 2 | The Chinese , who used ivory for elaborately carved handles and vessels as early as the Shang dynasty and in later times used it for a wide variety of personal items such as brush pots , wrist-rests , boxes , seals , snuff boxes and fans , had increasingly to import the material as the elephant herds in the southern provinces diminished . |
| 3 | Britain 's golden boy who lost his shine when newcomer David Grindley beat him for the final place in today 's 400 metres final is ready to take a year off from the track if it means he can beat the trouble . |
| 4 | His glance met hers for a brief , breathtaking moment , before he started forward , his stride slow , and rangy . |
| 5 | The Welshman kicked the ball away and referee Dangaard dismissed him for a second bookable offence . |
| 6 | Designed to counteract poor visibility on murky winter afternoons , it had been used in Scotland and by the visiting South Africans in 1924 before Arsenal adopted it for a public trial match three years later . |
| 7 | I had each Wednesday afternoon off from Russell 's and he enroled me , secretly , into his school for lessons with his normal classes , He and his wife held a weekly open house and these cramming sessions prepared me for the coming Halton entrance examination . |
| 8 | Sorrel watched him for a few seconds , then snatched it out of his hands and stuck it in her mouth . |
| 9 | The light dazzled us for a bare ten years with its brilliance , before it was extinguished . |
| 10 | In 1973 a Mossad hit squad went to Norway and murdered an innocent Moroccan mistaking him for an alleged Arab terrorist . |
| 11 | My first girlfriend left me for a new man . |
| 12 | Fishing Lines : The staring eyes have it for a longer life |
| 13 | The species are ‘ christened ’ when a scientist describes them for the first time , illustrates their peculiarities and publishes the name in a scientific journal . |
| 14 | The two owners were aged 84 and 71 and , after the chewing incident , the RSPCA swapped it for a smaller dog . |
| 15 | Tory plans to sell it for a small shopping mall were scuppered when Labour seized control last year . |
| 16 | Having always been aware of the Cathedral I 've often wondered what impact it has on visitors seeing it for the first time . |
| 17 | A 16-YEAR-OLD boy who fired a catapult at a low-flying Sri Lankan air force helicopter yesterday was wounded when the copter 's gunner mistook him for a Tamil terrorist and shot back at him . |
| 18 | The Formula One world champion test drives it for the first time in Phoenix on January 4 and will find his sleek , high-speed T93 series chassis also longer , bigger , heavier and cheaper than any previous IndyCar or championship-winning Canon Williams Renault FW14 . |
| 19 | When a child loves you for a long , long time , says the Skin Horse , then you gradually become Real . |
| 20 | If a child has it for the first ten years hardly anything else matters . |
| 21 | Thus , in the context of consensual sexual activity with a girl under the age of 16 , it states : ‘ Most of us think that acts such as oral sex are extremely serious ( perhaps more likely to disturb a young girl meeting them for the first time than sexual intercourse ) . ’ |
| 22 | Its death had been postponed , which had enabled the Hunt Ball Committee to hire it for the triumphant last appearance of a house that had outlived its glamour , and all kind importances . |
| 23 | The tigress suckles them for the first six months , by which time they will weigh 100 lb ( 45 kg ) . |
| 24 | If they are purchased through a large department store , the shop will send an expert to fix them for a small extra charge . |
| 25 | Wahono , general chair of Golkar ( the ruling Functional Group Centre or Golongan Karya Pusat ) , announced on Oct. 20 that President Suharto had agreed to Golkar 's plan to nominate him for a sixth five-year term as president . |
| 26 | But they do it though and they expect the cleaners to do it for no extra pay ? |
| 27 | Taylor replaced him and , according to Rust , ‘ preached to the admiration and astonishment of his auditory ; and by his florid and youthful beauty … and sublime and pleasant air made his hearers take him for a young angel ’ . |
| 28 | I intended at first only to teach her needlework to qualify her for a genteel position , for you see she has a delicacy in her person that makes it a pity ever to put her to hard work , but she masters everything so fast that now I am desirous to have to divert and entertain me in my thoughtful hours . |
| 29 | Anabelle watched him for a long while , but he did n't twitch a muscle . |
| 30 | The strong-smelling ‘ stewed ’ strips of blanket were hot , and as I wrung out the excess water , I needed tongs to hold them for the first few minutes . |