Example sentences of "[noun] and [pron] [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It only goes to show that compared to the mid-80s , when there was just Eddie Hemmings and I battling for an England place , there is now much tougher competition at the top . |
| 2 | The last time I saw Jonathan was Thursday evening when he picked me up in the car and we went for a drive . |
| 3 | As the Dutchwoman and I waited for the musicians to gather themselves up she commented on the sea symbols of fish and anchor in the nave . |
| 4 | The rear wall of the churchyard loomed ahead of the figure and it sprang for the top . |
| 5 | It provides the framework for an interpretation of action but the full story is only revealed by an examination of the rules which direct action and which provide for the interpretation of situations . |
| 6 | Er I 'm a thirty four year old accountant work and I work for a a pi |
| 7 | Others lose their love through the separation of death or divorce and they grieve for the loss of the one who , to all intents and purposes , did share their everyday life and existence . |
| 8 | This exception is directed at rationalizing the British Leyland case and it allows for the fact that persons who buy items of equipment may need replacement parts in time and should be able to obtain spare parts in a free market at reasonable cost . |
| 9 | ‘ As your commanding officer , I 'm the senior member of the Board and I speak for the others . |
| 10 | But Maggie had a warm heart and she looked for the best in people . |
| 11 | I clapped Jamie on the shoulder a couple of times and we made for the street . |
| 12 | IB4E paid the money and they waited for the train to take them to Ratvick . |
| 13 | The man counts the money and they argue for a while , Tod saying nine hundred , the man saying seven , then the man saying six while Tod holds out for a thou , and so on . |
| 14 | where R represents the number of correct responses for the right ear/visual field and I stands for the left ear/visual field . |
| 15 | What the ovules do is they stay in the grasses and they wait for the pollens to arrive . |
| 16 | It was about how to deal with a road accident and I arranged for a smashed-up car to be towed into the studio , and for actors to sprawl around , made-up to look as if they had appalling injuries . |
| 17 | She took the package and it lay for a moment in her lap while she stared down at it . |
| 18 | The former employee , who was the plaintiff and who sued for the payment to him of commission under the first part of the clause argued that the proviso could be severed and that therefore the obligation of the defendants to pay him such sums remained . |
| 19 | I said I 'd be in any time after six that evening and he came for the key precisely on the hour . ’ |
| 20 | As an entertainer I run in bright colours and I run for the public . |
| 21 | They are very happy places and they make for a lot of happiness with parents too I think . |
| 22 | At the Lochy Bar in Caol ( pronounced cool ) just outside Fort William , Martin and I meet for the first time . |
| 23 | So they are in touch with their community and they do for the most part , know what 's going on , on their beat . |
| 24 | The Magistrate 's eye moved from one doctor to the other over the passive rows of tattered skeletons and he forgot for a moment that he was as thin and ragged as they were . |
| 25 | The author of The Jovial Cutlers , Joseph Mather , was himself a working cutler and he wrote for an audience of his fellows . |
| 26 | And when they go on holiday with Ann and the old man they used to get through a hundred pounds a day and they go for a week . |
| 27 | She did have a job with the BBC and someone cared for the child in the day . |
| 28 | ‘ Michael ran a cab and he worked for the bookies on the side . |
| 29 | He miscalculated badly , forgetting the Tsar 's pride , which made him unyielding in his claim to be protector of the Greek Christians , and the reaction of the Sultan , who was weary of being pressured by the Powers and who feared for the security of his Empire . |
| 30 | ( Beckett 1959 and 1979 : 9 ) , while Flann O'Brien 's narrator comments , ‘ one beginning and one ending for a book was a thing I did not agree with ’ and goes on to offer ‘ three openings entirely dissimilar ’ ( O'Brien 1939 and 1975 : 9 ) . |