Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [verb] [adv] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Either way , the change sits there for the reader , fascinating , not to be ignored . |
| 2 | Mick was there first and climbed onto the tailboard to pull out for the rogue two of Paddy 's cans ( a fact which Paddy was slow to forget ) . |
| 3 | I turned off towards Munlochy , and near the Clootie Well , the entire front hub disintegrated in a shower of hot , broken alloy , and the bike headed straight for the hedge . |
| 4 | As the snake closes in for the kill , its mouth sensors guide it with deadly accuracy . |
| 5 | Italians in the know come here for the beaches , yet the area is barely known to foreign visitors . |
| 6 | They were watching the camp pack away for the last time before it moved on without them . |
| 7 | It was simply that a bottle of brandy , even of the kind intended only for the kitchen ( by which I do n't mean something not fit to drink , I mean something one prefers not to drink ) , somehow always turns out in fact to have been drunk by somebody just when it is needed for cooking and has n't been replaced , while whisky is a supply which is more or less automatically re-ordered as soon as it runs out . |
| 8 | The curriculum laid down for the first time what pupils should learn in 10 subjects . |
| 9 | But , as the striker moved in for the kill , the defender retrieved the situation with a splendid recovery tackle . |
| 10 | The Association exists purely for the benefit of assistant managers . |
| 11 | In addition , the employers in the industry argued strongly for the retention of a statutory levy because of the largely self-employed nature of the labour force . |
| 12 | 6 The defender moves forward for the counter-attack . |
| 13 | Since Intersolv reckons that maintenance accounts for some half of all programming work in MVS sites , and says that the research makes up for the bulk of this work , the potential time savings for users and the potential market for Intersolv are substantial . |
| 14 | Current members of the Club go up for the weekend to climb ( this year it was too cold — even the lakes were frozen ) and after dinner retire to doss on whatever floor may be found . |
| 15 | You children were excited on the journey to Gibraltar and kept running from side to side of the boat looking out for the small destroyers that were guarding the convoy . |
| 16 | Then when we got to the sawmill I 'd stay close beside Uncle Bill watching him sawing and planing , keeping well away from the saw , until midday when the mill shut up for the week . |
| 17 | The girls looked at me knowingly while the boss went behind for the stuff , and when they said , ‘ Ten pence , please ’ they turned to me . |
| 18 | The backhand slash completing the figure-of-eight sped unerringly for the doomed man 's neck , and an instant later his severed head somersaulted high in the air , to bounce and roll to a stop on the mat several feet away . |
| 19 | Mr Smith , the feast secretary , echoed these sentiments , as he told me how people who had left the village returned annually for the feast ; there were people here today from as far away as Bournemouth . |
| 20 | Save as otherwise expressly provided , the definitions in sections 4 and 5 of the Act apply only for the purposes of interpreting section 1 of the Act : see section 1(3) . |
| 21 | There are many other beautiful things there but I can not resist quoting a caption — for once , given in English — in the room set aside for the revolution of 1848 . |
| 22 | In fact on the basis worked out for the seedings , we came fifth out of six . ’ |
| 23 | In fact on the basis worked out for the seedings , we came fifth out of six . ’ |
| 24 | But how does the cake divide up for the punters ? |
| 25 | The opening campaigns of the war went well for the French . |
| 26 | Notwithstanding the merit and extent of his achievements , Gavin Hastings still retains the desire to reach out for the best of which he is capable with as yet undiminished zest : ‘ Unless you set yourself tasks and ambitions , unless you have new targets , there is n't much point in playing . |
| 27 | Although not a political animal she saw the need to speak up for the Africans ; articulate on their behalf when so often they were not given opportunity to speak for themselves . |
| 28 | As the curtain came down for the fourth time the ‘ helpers ’ all gave a huge sigh and reverted back to responsible adults ! |
| 29 | Information derived from the national health service internal market on general practitioner and patient preferences and on comparative costs will help the service to plan sensibly for the future , in London as elsewhere . |
| 30 | His art emerges as the product of the extreme poverty of his early years when sex was cheaper than food and where the circus stood in for the corrida . |