Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [vb past] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The freehold was purchased at a reasonable price in a complicated deal that allowed for a sensitive refurbishment of the grade 1-listed building and a limit of 30 hotel bedrooms . |
| 2 | It was Daedalian blood that accounted for the native handiness and wit and industry of the people of Ninfania , the father had always thought . |
| 3 | Yanto closed his eyes and waited for the inevitable . |
| 4 | He was also a member of the XL Club and played for the local Lloyds Bank XI . |
| 5 | In 1878 he arrived in the United States and studied for the Unitarian ministry at Meadville Theological School in Pennsylvania . |
| 6 | We flew to San Diego on the West Coast where we hired a car and headed for the bright lights of Las Vegas . |
| 7 | She picked up her jacket and handbag and headed for the distant clubhouse . |
| 8 | He then went to South Africa with the FA summer touring side and played for the national team in one of the representative games . |
| 9 | Indeed , food requirements can rise anywhere from five to ten times that needed for a similar ectotherm . |
| 10 | In my opinion the Italian Federation should even now refund substantial sums of money to all the countries that attended for the dreadful food and facilities . |
| 11 | At 2 p.m. a big KC 135 tanker lifted off from Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington and headed for a mid-air rendezvous with the Eagle at 45,000 feet over the eastern seaboard . |
| 12 | The Company did not send expeditions of its own into this area for over a century ; like the East India and the Royal Africa Companies it established trading posts and waited for the local inhabitants to come and trade at them . |
| 13 | That done , the wee dandy , roofed by a wig of blazing defiance , hooked thumbs into his waistcoat pockets and sauntered for the bar-top city heights . |
| 14 | So I left Derek and Brian by the door of the pub and headed for the open country . |
| 15 | The local children used to play in the cutting and had for a long time fancied the hut as a den or HQ for their games , but the hut was always locked by a large padlock securing a hasp that was red with rust but still secured the door . |
| 16 | But I am long on stamina and waited for a red-breasted merganser aimlessly doing nothing under the cliff on which lay the dozing duo . |
| 17 | Zacchaeus gritted his teeth and waited for a great long telling off from Jesus . |
| 18 | Mitchell trained as a journalist on The Scotsman and worked for the Scottish Tourist Board , Apex Publishing in Oman and British Gas Scotland before setting up Elliot Mitchell Communications , which later merged with Commpress . |
| 19 | She needed some more wood for her carving if she was to complete all the ‘ little comforters ’ , as she called them , during her three-week holiday away from the travel agents where she worked , small , smooth-shaped pieces of wood , lovingly carved and polished by herself to fit easily into the palm and which , much to her surprise and delight , were eagerly accepted by the large rehabilitation hospital in the next town that cared for the blind and mentally sick . |
| 20 | He would recognise the need for utility , the same need that provided for a discreetly-concealed compost and refuse heap in the ancient gardens of his homeland . |
| 21 | Several years ago , when General Motors reached agreement on a contract with the United Auto Workers that called for a new relationship based on cooperation and shared sacrifice , and then , on the same day , announced a new formula for generous executive bonuses , long-time union members simply nodded to themselves . |
| 22 | They stayed on the hill and talked for a long time . |
| 23 | She dropped the other gun — the little one — into the pocket of her jacket and reached for the wooden grip of the Kalashnikov . |
| 24 | If an antidepressant is indicated , it should be used in a full therapeutic dose and continued for an appropriate period of time . |
| 25 | But erm , if so , please get in touch before Wednesday as they 've , he rang me up last night and asked for a final figure from us which he must |
| 26 | I contacted the North Devon District Health Authority and asked for an extra-contractual referral to be made for this operation . |
| 27 | Gathering her courage together , she descended from the gig and waited for the old man to precede her across the porch . |
| 28 | At the crash from the front door he came out of his chair and reached for a twelve-bore shotgun that lay on the pine table . |
| 29 | THE Bundesbank indicated yesterday that there were no immediate plans to reduce interest rates and pleaded for a rigorous savings campaign by Germans to combat rising debts . |
| 30 | In London she settled in Highgate and ventured out from there on the variation of the Grand Tour that beckoned for the young in Europe in the mid 1960s : Paris , Rome , Turkey , Lebanon , Jordan , Tunisia , and across north Africa . |