Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pron] [noun] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have a couple of mates who are Forest fans , and I got them tickets for the first game of the season . |
| 2 | In Los Angeles , where I lectured for a living , I pursued my fascination for the harmonic patterns and golden-mean ratios which run so consistently through the sacred art , music and architecture of both Western and oriental mystical traditions . |
| 3 | I 'm not being greedy but if someone paid me £50,000 for a fight , I 'd be the happiest man in the world . |
| 4 | I received a straightforward message recently when I telephoned her flat for a chat : ‘ Elizabeth says she 's busy . ’ |
| 5 | I could n't do anything about Nassim 's cousin being in Pakistan , I reasoned as I rinsed my mouth for the hundredth time . |
| 6 | ‘ When I was 13 , I declared my love for a girl in the street , putting my knees on the ground , ’ he recalls . |
| 7 | Nor was it mere coincidence that I arranged my holiday for a special part of September . |
| 8 | At the end of my reading , the lecturer asked the newcomer his name , and I heard his voice for the first time — a soft , warm American accent , with the rich , furry tone the English find so attractive . |
| 9 | I heard your name for the first time . |
| 10 | Meanwhile I saw her breasts for the first time . |
| 11 | The bat flitted so low that I saw its silhouette for a brief moment against the Milky Way . |
| 12 | ‘ She spent Christmas with me and my wife Pam and I took her dog for a walk . ’ |
| 13 | Outside in the street I took her hand for the first time . |
| 14 | Having applied in June 1991 for recognition of my doctorate , which I obtained in Paris , I presented my candidacy for a CSIC post as a palaeobotanist . |
| 15 | Silicon Amnesia Sir : I bought your magazine for the first time this month and was very annoyed that I have been missing out on an excellent value piece of publishing catering to beginners ( me ) and experienced alike . |
| 16 | Wildly , I searched his body for the keys . |
| 17 | I left my sack for a third time clipped to Sal and relished the cool caress of wind around my back as I finally found out how to enjoy myself on the steep granite of the ridge . |
| 18 | I sacrificed my family for the sake of seven terrorists who were planning bombing raids in some of America 's major cities . |
| 19 | I held my jaw for a moment . |
| 20 | I closed my eyes for a second . |
| 21 | I closed my eyes for a bit , then went back into the Bunker to tidy up . |
| 22 | I closed my eyes for the rest of the journey as it had been a busy two days and I did n't feel lik& going to the council offices either , It would be too late anyway so I decided to take a stroll by the river and see how Nigel was getting on with the excavations . |
| 23 | I washed my billycans for the first time since Reggane , and cleaned the kit and groundsheet with disinfectant . |
| 24 | But the old religion had elements which prepared its adherents for the symbolism of the new : the death and resurrection of Osiris , the representations of the mother goddess Isis with her son Horus on her lap , the symbol of life in the form of a cross , the Egyptian ankh . |
| 25 | Designer Daniel Andrieu was present as the concealing-sheet was whipped away amid a swirling cloud of smoke which hid his creation for a few choking seconds before we could see what had been achieved . |
| 26 | It was his next appointment in March 1904 , to the embassy in Constantinople , which fired his enthusiasm for the Middle East and settled the subsequent course of his brief but eventful life . |
| 27 | His father is a veterinary surgeon , and he himself assisted his father for a year or two and then became a groom . |
| 28 | She gave Changez a considerable backhander across his wobbling chops , which shut his mouth for a fortnight , during which he miserably carried his bruised jaw to his camp-bed — that raft in a storm — and did n't speak . |
| 29 | Last month he emerged from a meeting in the northern city of Olomouc with support for his ‘ Olomouc theses ’ , which outlined his ideas for the Forum in advance of its conference , due to open on January 12th . |
| 30 | The commission of inquiry into the political system reported at the beginning of December to a special KANU meeting , which endorsed its recommendations for a continuation of the one-party system [ see p. 37908 ] . |