Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [verb] [pers pn] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The big four have asked all Japanese corporations with equity-financing plans to postpone them for the time being . |
| 2 | By then she felt that she had seen enough paintings , churches , marble floors and medieval palaces to last her for a long time . |
| 3 | We 've asked four top designers to join us for the day and show just how they would accessorize the little black dress that is a staple of this season 's wardrobe . |
| 4 | The majority of Athenian citizens were working men who needed the meagre payment that was eventually made for carrying out public duties to compensate them for the loss of daily earnings . |
| 5 | He would take frustrating and puzzling journeys on the serpentine British railways to see her for a snatched fraction of a weekend in a provincial rep . |
| 6 | The dark eyes fixed her for a moment . |
| 7 | His sad tones prepared them for the news as he announced that German troops had not withdrawn from Poland and consequently Britain was now at war with Germany . |
| 8 | The Chinese , who used ivory for elaborately carved handles and vessels as early as the Shang dynasty and in later times used it for a wide variety of personal items such as brush pots , wrist-rests , boxes , seals , snuff boxes and fans , had increasingly to import the material as the elephant herds in the southern provinces diminished . |
| 9 | Tory plans to sell it for a small shopping mall were scuppered when Labour seized control last year . |
| 10 | His deep eyes regarded her for a moment , then he looked at Rory . |
| 11 | Mr Anderton said he was disappointed that he could not afford to keep Vaila , adding that various attempts had been made to interest public and environmental agencies to buy it for the enjoyment of the public . |
| 12 | All ways to hold him for a while . |
| 13 | She must prevent Ursula seeing this , at all events prepare her for the reality of it . |
| 14 | ‘ What will people think when those children ask her for an improper story ! ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I have discovered that the black people I have been working with in the inner cities proposed me for the award . |
| 16 | Fishing Lines : The staring eyes have it for a longer life |
| 17 | In Stafford , soldiers were forbidden from bring their families into the town unless they had enough funds to keep them for a quarter of a year , due to the large number of camp followers registering for charity . |
| 18 | Sport , and with the new football season just over a month old , Oxford United Football Club probably feels they 've had enough problems to last them for a lifetime . |
| 19 | She had never seen him with his hair cut short , and the absence of the red-blond locks made him for a moment unrecognisable . |
| 20 | The steppes were the first to be affected , so that in June alone over a million peasants left them for the Volga . |