Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [pron] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | His glance met hers for a brief , breathtaking moment , before he started forward , his stride slow , and rangy . |
| 4 | The Welshman kicked the ball away and referee Dangaard dismissed him for a second bookable offence . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Sorrel watched him for a few seconds , then snatched it out of his hands and stuck it in her mouth . |
| 8 | The light dazzled us for a bare ten years with its brilliance , before it was extinguished . |
| 9 | My first girlfriend left me for a new man . |
| 10 | The two owners were aged 84 and 71 and , after the chewing incident , the RSPCA swapped it for a smaller dog . |
| 11 | As they began to climb the stairs , arms still wrapped around each other , Ronni asked herself for the hundredth time what she would do if he did . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Anabelle watched him for a long while , but he did n't twitch a muscle . |
| 14 | Knowing that it would annoy Geoffrey , Anthony braced himself for the ensuing argument . |
| 15 | All that was left of Bernice 's rational practicality marshalled itself for a final , concerted assault on her bewildered brain . |
| 16 | Claudia Yeo nerved herself for a final effort . |
| 17 | It was in 1977 and ‘ 78 that McEvoy won this title before Ronan Rafferty beat him for the first ( and only ) time in nearly 30 matches for England . |
| 18 | We talked a little more , while Terry and Tom prepared themselves for the inevitable angry reaction from the guards and Brian lay down under an extra blanket as his body came to terms with the shock of the beating . |
| 19 | Romanian troops braced themselves for a Soviet invasion . |
| 20 | Rain watched her for the last few yards , noting how the morning 's cheerfulness had been replaced by anxiety . |
| 21 | Elaine watched her for a few minutes before paddling further into the shore , lying on the soft , creamy sand , letting the shallow water caress her feet and legs . |
| 22 | Igor Stravinsky met him for the first time in this year , and recalled how shy he seemed . |
| 23 | Vitor studied her for a long , piercing moment . |
| 24 | Delaney readied himself for the final assault . |
| 25 | Streisand took the flak and Twentieth Century-Fox executives braced themselves for a financial disaster . |
| 26 | His absorption with Mao and Castro was so open that the neighbors took it for a double bluff , and each new discovery of an agent transmitting messages from some ordinary-looking English suburb increased the tension of their interest in the land mine who was surely bound one day to go off in their own street . |
| 27 | Then Folly reached the top of the steps , and the woman noticed her for the first time . |
| 28 | A thing of great beauty , it was not unusual to hear sharp intakes of breath as people beheld it for the first time . |
| 29 | Mike said nothing for a few minutes . |
| 30 | As the Dwarfs steeled themselves for the inevitable assault , there was a loud explosion and the gateway burst apart in a cloud of dust . |