Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] and [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she was still meditating for hours and waiting for the voice of the flat to inform her of its favoured colour scheme . |
| 2 | ‘ I pay enough tax on my first job ’ , Mike said , and did n't accept the connection between taxes and help for the unemployed . |
| 3 | Pupils at Grange Primary School in Hartlepool have collected a huge amount of toothbrushes and toothpaste for an orphanage in Romania . |
| 4 | They swarmed on board with the agility of rats and leapt for the defenders . |
| 5 | of your block of flats and wait for a sign . |
| 6 | In the present chapter , both of these assumptions will be criticized in a variety of ways and rejected for a variety of reasons . |
| 7 | In seven patients the data had been fabricated ; confrontation was followed in all cases by cessation of symptoms and support for the parent . |
| 8 | Standard Condition 2.2 now deals with the payment of deposits and provides for a 10% deposit to be taken . |
| 9 | Had n't she been watching the models for weeks and dying for a chance to imitate them ? |
| 10 | It 's like you not painting your house for years and waiting for the glass to fall out of the windows before you start … it 's not the way to do things |
| 11 | 5 Roll teaspoons of the petit four mixture into balls and leave for a while to set . |
| 12 | Nestling peacefully amongst the mine sweepers and patrol vessels in Albert Dock was the P&O Thames sailing barge , Will , dressed overall with flags and used for a variety of on board functions during her stay . |
| 13 | The problem is that , for example , the nitrogen in blood can become available to plants in days and continue for a week or two , whereas the phosphate in bone can not possibly become available for several months . |
| 14 | You cos you know Bonnie yeah , sh she erm got offered a er job in Glitters in Camden yeah it 's a shop in Camden , and sh she told Honey and Dan about it yeah and the next thing she knows yeah like the next day , she 's talking to Dan and Honey and Honey comes out and says oh I went down to Glitters and asked for a job right said right to Honey 's face I mean Bonnie 's face . |
| 15 | The Dutch were probably right , to judge from a handwritten note de Gaulle gave Chancellor Konrad Adenauer at that time : ‘ The supernational organisms of the six , which tend inevitably and abusively to become irresponsible superstates , will be reformed , subordinated to governments and used for the normal tasks of the council and technical business . ’ |
| 16 | There were even reports of material assistance being given to protesters by local officials , such as transport to demonstrations and financing for the protesters ' co-ordinating committees . |
| 17 | He landed eventually at Stabiae ( near the present Castellammare ) , where things were still fairly tolerable , and there he encountered a friend of his , one Pomponianus , who was making frantic preparations to escape , loading his possessions on to ships and fretting for a favourable wind so that he could put to sea . |
| 18 | It might seem a smaller risk to stick to stores and wait for a retailing boom to return . |
| 19 | The three of them talked politely about horses and racing for a few minutes , before Kelly decided it was time to leave . |
| 20 | Often written by women and intended for a female readership , the novels are characterized by a blend of sentiment and sensationalism with elements of the fashionable Gothic ; a number of them were translations from the French . |