Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [pers pn] [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This afternoon it poured for two hours solid . |
| 2 | The quarry site 's owners ARC have sought a court order to evoct the travellers from the site later this week , but by this evening it looked for most of them as thought the party was over anyway . |
| 3 | In old age she sat for long periods by her bedroom window , looking out over roof-tops to distant church spires and tower blocks . |
| 4 | The question is whether the ‘ power ’ referred to was the power to write poetry ; for though the Poems In Two Volumes ( 1807 ) are of high quality they mark for most people the end of Wordsworth 's poetic life . |
| 5 | Pooley had adopted the embarrassed tone he reserved for all conversations about the family estate . |
| 6 | Sonny has a number of different slides he uses for different occasions . |
| 7 | But I have different slides I use for different things . |
| 8 | His correspondence shows him reacting to Gandhi with the rather detached curiosity he showed for other exotic forms of political life . |
| 9 | To which he uttered the classic comment , in the more than usually low drawl he employed for such deliverances : ‘ There 's always bound … to be a certain amount of iniquity … in these matters ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'd like that dance you asked for earlier . ’ |
| 11 | For the entire period it accounts for some 70 per cent of the year-to-year variation in the rate of change of aggregate union membership . |
| 12 | So you 'd just be about a hundred and I think a hundred and ten is the lowest commission you get for any deal in our company . |
| 13 | Even Denise had aged a little , got heavy and puffy in her thirties , from the big cooked dinners she made for hungry Keith . |
| 14 | Er , you will not the first year returns estimated at at ninety odd percent I think for this scheme . |
| 15 | It is contract it 's a monthly contract you work for three weeks for one pound sixteen shillings and at the end of the month they count all the slates you 've done during the month . |
| 16 | Since time is something I do n't have too much of these days I look for other solutions like hats , turbans , scarves or wigs and pieces . |
| 17 | The basic figures we have for this emigration — 100,000 prisoners of war brought from Palestine into Egypt by Ptolemy I ( Aristeas 12–14 ) and 1,000,000 Jews in Egypt at the time of Philo ( in Flacc. 43 ) — are almost certainly both false . |
| 18 | Writers were Tom Leonard , Alasdair Gray and ( he joined us for ‘ The Pie ’ ) Jim Kelman and I. Tom 's black , black ironies and satires on the Lebanon , the New Right , the Media , West of Scotland sectarianism and chauvinism ; Alasdair Gray 's insane Grant family , his moneyed braggarts and blusterers , his quick shifts of dramatic power in curt sketches , his deranged respected old politicos ; Jim Kelman 's surrealist pubs and monologuing gamblers , and grim almost folk tales — like the story of ‘ The Hon ’ that comes up out of the lavatory pan ( ’ Yi nivir know the minit ’ ) meant that the broad rather lightweight stuff I wrote for these revues had plenty of stronger , more solid , meatier material contrasting with it . |
| 19 | And there , on the top of his open bag , staring straight at him , was the white notepad he used for issuing prescriptions . |
| 20 | She is also well known locally for the soft toys she makes for various charities . |
| 21 | They have the same four basic options we described for general ownership policy : state ownership ; specific support for or discrimination against locals or foreigners ; or neutrality . |
| 22 | This stopped the hiccups and calmed him down , and that night he slept for sixteen hours . |
| 23 | My understanding is what we 're trying to achieve is , to have a a a double-sided A four sheet , which is intended to demonstrate to our clients , what good lads we are and what good work we do for each in each function . |
| 24 | The legal work they do for other clients gives them this experience . |
| 25 | There was great scope we saw for matching marketing , the due diligence product outside er Manchester area er that has been particularly successful we are going to have , well all of you are probably aware of of a significant increase in the in the of due dili due diligence work er very encouraging that er most of it I think I 'm right in saying has come , certainly the bigger ones have come from out with the region er and have been introduced to us from bankers er in London , er initially we 've had er a lot of support from our er colleagues in London who 've effected the introductions in the first place , precisely how the partnership virtually work . |
| 26 | Their second objective is to qualify their own champion which they aim to do with the black pup they plan for late 1993 . |
| 27 | At Great Bedwyn we stop for welcome break and cheer the first of the singles through . |
| 28 | ‘ The substantial improvement we reported for 1992 has continued in the first three months of 1993 following a further sharp reduction in our worldwide underwriting deficit . |
| 29 | ‘ ’ Many the rich cheeses I pressed for ungrateful townsfolk , Yet never did I get home with much money in my pocket , ’ ' quoted Bacci , who had studied at the Liceo Classico . |
| 30 | Each night she spoke to a waiter to order a meal ; each morning she asked for boiled rather than scrambled eggs for breakfast . |