Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [adv] for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the Beau Nash Room might just as well have been their luxury coach : twenty-three of them only for the minute , with Eddie Stratton now being held in custody by the New York Police , distanced by only a few yards , as it happened , from the mortal remains of his former wife ; and with Sam and Vera Kronquist , one of the three married couples originally listed on the tour , still in their room on the second floor of the hotel — Sam watching a mid-morning cartoon on ITV , and Vera , fully dressed , lying back lazily against the pillows of their double bed , reading the previous February 's issue of Country Life . |
| 2 | Did he live with me only for the sake of appearances , perhaps ? |
| 3 | ‘ You ca n't really believe I went to bed with you just for a story ? ’ |
| 4 | He reached for the Caithness paperweight on his desk and fiddled with it absently for a moment . |
| 5 | Now take that cat to your room and work with it there for the rest of the morning . |
| 6 | If it will please you To show us so much gentry and goodwill As to expand your time with us awhile For the supply and profit of our hope , Your visitation shall receive such thanks As fits a king 's remembrance . |
| 7 | So suddenly fatherless , and so abruptly given to a husband , translated from the familiar company of her sisters at Brecon to this barbarous foreign court where she was the last and loneliest of the children , Isabella had looked round her forlornly for an anchorage to which she might ride in safety . |
| 8 | ‘ Unlike some he is prepared to work hard and is not in it just for the glory . |
| 9 | What 's more , Bishop is n't in it just for the money , he wants to see some blood spilt — even that of his friends … |
| 10 | Then , opening them again , she resumed her earlier apologetic furtiveness and , like a nocturnal animal twitching before a predator , begged her sister not to laugh , not to make fun of her , not to comment straight away or say she was an idiot or slap her down , but please , please , to let her have her dream about him just for a night . |
| 11 | He had come before luncheon , eaten everything put before him with great dedication , looked about him hopefully for the cigar the household did not possess , and then explained abruptly without any preliminaries to Alexandra that she was her aunt 's sole heir . |
| 12 | I pay tribute to them tonight for the work that they have undertaken in an attempt to keep us aware of what is happening out there . |
| 13 | The Chairman of the Select Committee on Energy apologised to me earlier for the fact that he has had to leave the Chamber because he is due to make a speech on clean coal technology elsewhere in London . |
| 14 | He greeted her , his eyes falling on her again for an instant and then skittering away . |
| 15 | Her glance rested on him only for a matter of seconds , yet his face could not have registered more in her mind had she been staring at him for an hour . |
| 16 | From the age of eight he began at 5 a.m. despite being so small that special pattens had to be made to enable him to reach the machinery , and he bore the scars of the corporal punishment inflicted on him there for the rest of his life . |
| 17 | Well just talk to us now for a second . |
| 18 | She looked up at me steadily for a moment before she spoke . |
| 19 | He looked at me quietly for a moment . |
| 20 | She stared at me blankly for a moment , then turned and went back to the sitting room . |
| 21 | He stared at her steadily for a moment and then nodded . |
| 22 | He looked at her steadily for a moment and then his hard expression softened considerably . |
| 23 | He stared at her incredulously for a moment , then , as he began to speak , she forestalled him . |
| 24 | Detective Inspector Aziz looked at her carefully for a minute . |
| 25 | He tilted her face , looking at her deeply for a moment and then letting her go . |
| 26 | Her mother looked at her vacantly for a moment , then she said in a weak voice , ‘ My poor girl . |
| 27 | We gazed at her blankly for a moment before recovering and saying we would , please . |
| 28 | Lissa stared at her blankly for a moment . |
| 29 | He stared at her blankly for a moment . |
| 30 | He stared at her bleakly for a moment then turned on his heel . |