Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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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 .
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