Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [vb past] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He prepared the altar for Mass , opened the-door and waited for the small trickle of his congregation to enter . |
| 2 | On the negative side , funerals were becoming so much more secular in outlook , appearance and context that the surviving guilds and fraternities found themselves hard-pressed to provide all that made for an average funeral of the new type ; the rules were being rewritten by a public which no longer wished to perpetuate the simple ritual hitherto provided and which were looking for a pageantry close to that of the great baronial funerals as performed by the College of Arms , a corporation of heralds and part of the Royal Household . |
| 3 | For the client , the advantage was that he could go direct to those various tradesmen who , collectively , could provide all that made for an average funeral . |
| 4 | I was an incurable romantic and yearned for a romantic friendship before it would be too late , for I believed in those days that romantic friendship was possible only in youth . |
| 5 | Everyone used to say to me , ‘ how do you manage to stay so cool and relaxed for a big event , Aston ? ’ |