Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
1 | I argued passionately for a top higher band . |
2 | And when I come here and I lived here for a few year and then really saw what it was like , I thought , God , never again . |
3 | Here houses looked to me like Monopoly chips : seeing a man cycling over the pathless tundra I scanned hopelessly for a possible point of reference he might have . |
4 | And another good old word is the crome , now er that was one I came across for the first time when I came into Suffolk , the crome . |
5 | Well , I came home for the 1986 Turnberry Open expecting to caddie for Mac O'Grady but that did n't materialize , so Nick and I joined up in July 1986 . |
6 | I remember he laughed and I noticed properly for the first time what a lovely blue his eyes were and a little thrill went through me . |
7 | I returned home for a late tea and carefully explained to my mother what Dana had done , and tried to excuse the thoughtlessness that had caused her such a shock . |
8 | I struggled manfully for a few minutes , neatly nicking Ann 's fishing hat off , which we had to row after to recover ; catching Alan 's flies , on a back cast , and finally managing to get floss and line mixed up in an unbelievably intricate tangle . |
9 | In the meantime , as I recall , er I I asked him who he was and I asked his wife who he was because he had asked what we were doing in his house and when he said his house , I thought then for the first time that perhaps this was n't who er we had on the floor . |
10 | I went yesterday for the first time . |
11 | During the war I worked for the women 's voluntary service and shortly afterwards I went abroad for a few years , returning in the late 1940s , divorced with three children . |
12 | And I went there for a little bit , and then we moved on , moved off from there , do you see ? |
13 | One company director — then unconverted — whom I took there for the first time one Tuesday had this reaction : ‘ All my life I have been longing without knowing it to hear preaching like this . ’ |
14 | Primarily , I greatly respected the culture and customs of the people and , as a western woman , although free to dress in my own cultural fashion , I dressed respectfully for an Islamic country and covered my hair , arms and legs and wore loose fitting clothes , so I felt comfortable drawing and was protected from the heat of the sun . |
15 | And when I left home for the first time , it suddenly occurred to me that there was no reason why I should n't change it . |
16 | He and Mackay put on 97 in 72 minutes , extending Australia 's total to 348 , which proved enough for a seven wicket victory after West Indies failed to avoid the follow-on . |
17 | She realised now for the first time that she had left her purse behind in Edward 's room . |
18 | Still able to feel the firm sand beneath her feet , she swam quietly for a few minutes , before turning over on to her back . |
19 | He stood for a moment laughing at her as she cast furiously for the vanished rabbit , and walked on , to catch her up , along the raised embankment . |
20 | After pulling on her clothes , she headed downstairs for the perfunctory glass of orange-juice which served as breakfast . |
21 | Ironically , the protest had nothing to do with the South Africans who were as warmly received as they had been in Jamaica and Trinidad , greeted and feted by the government and watched by Prime Ministers Erskine Sandiford of Barbados and P.J. Patterson of Jamaica who came specially for the historic occasion , the first Test ever played between teams previously kept apart by the ideology of racial superiority . |
22 | She came across for the first time today , I was out egg yard getting some eggs |
23 | It was The Association of Women Artists and Friends of Art in Berlin , an association of women artists , who banded together for the first time on 13 January , 1867 , to overcome some of the structural obstacles to women artists . |
24 | Unfortunately , little is known about her life , however , it is understood that she worked regularly for the National Geographic magazine , for whom she did some of their earliest published colour photography . |
25 | A spokeswoman for the Guides Association said yesterday : ‘ She worked here for a short while and I suppose it was just a job to her . ’ |
26 | She thought carefully for a few moments before she said , ‘ Silas — are n't you being unreasonable and somewhat unfair to both yourself and to Doreen ? ’ |
27 | She struggled furiously for a few seconds but her former strength was lost to her . |
28 | She went home for the first time after twelve weeks … but she 's been in and out of the unit constantly ever since . |
29 | She spoke truthfully for the first time and said she had n't any more of it — which was a direct admission that she had had it in the first place . |
30 | Now she wished fervently for an old-fashioned attendant to match the commissionaire downstairs and the man who had driven Luke 's car away to park it . |