Example sentences of "[adv] for [art] [noun] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A dwelling unit , nothing more , something that was right for a girl that was alone , right for a girl who lived without a man . |
| 2 | Now luck would have it that my drawing was spot on for a guy who drank in The Roebuck . |
| 3 | ‘ I can never thank Terry enough for the way he treated me . |
| 4 | HALEMA STAYED FOR three days , just long enough for her round figure bobbing up and down the beach to become familiar , long enough for the affection she exuded to be returned tenfold . |
| 5 | It is difficult to find words strong enough for the sensation which came over me ; Milton 's ‘ enormous bliss ’ of Eden ( giving the full , ancient meaning to ‘ enormous ’ ) comes somewhere near it . |
| 6 | True , Emily 's mother was his own mother 's sister , but his sole contact with her was a book token every Christmas ; a token never quite generous enough for the book he wanted . |
| 7 | Not that I cared much for the way he kept them . |
| 8 | Among North Kensington laundresses , the local maxim was ‘ the best ironer gets the worst husband ’ , although within the local community it would appear that husbands and wives adjusted to the often superior earning power of the wife , and in at least one suburban district the custom prevailed whereby husbands remained responsible only for a sum which covered rent , the baker 's bill and boots for the family . |
| 9 | I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman not only for the sympathy he expressed to the families of those killed and injured , but for his support for the courageous efforts of the security forces . |
| 10 | Conchis was away far too long for the excuse he had given . |
| 11 | More than two negative reasons for accepting a job can take a heavy toll on your resources of enthusiasm , particularly if you had the added disappointment of being turned down for the post you 'd really hoped for at the time . |
| 12 | To make amends perhaps for the past he had turned tee-totaller and finally Salvationist . |
| 13 | Perhaps for the reasons he said . |
| 14 | ‘ Perhaps for the moment we 'd better get on with this search . ’ |
| 15 | The contract had been until the end of September when she could reapply for the job she had been turned down for , ‘ provided she had had sufficient experience nursing very sick children ’ , he said . |
| 16 | So for a change I thought someone should write in for the fans . |
| 17 | So for a second it seemed the most natural thing in the world when the ships airlock suddenly opened , and I stepped out of my cabin to see Sergia framed in the lock , with two male Ardakkeans behind her . |
| 18 | But not so for the Magyars who had been so praised in 1848 , ‘ an obscure semibarbarous people … still standing in the half-civilization of the sixteenth century ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ Court proceedings could be long and drawn out , and how do you prove when a player went in for a tackle he did it with intent to harm his opponent ? |
| 20 | It started when a man working in the sorting office was suspended for refusing to stand in for a colleague who 'd gone sick . |
| 21 | Before turning in for the night I telephoned Fred Workman to say I would be back at my desk by mid-morning and would be covering the visit of Mr Gladstone Murray to our city , his meetings and his broadcast speech , for the next day 's evening edition . |
| 22 | More than 40 antique and warbird aircraft flew in for the auction which coincided with the National Championship Air Races . |
| 23 | Although tankers did not come in for the attention they received in the 1980s , on 25 January Platt 's carried an account of an attack on an Iraqi tanker by US aircraft . |
| 24 | Nathan waited patiently for the remissions which made it possible for the ruined mind to function for a time ; he sat by the sick man , who by now was almost blind ; the paralysis was , after all , general . |
| 25 | I know , I know Brian would n't at least three but , and this , and this was n't really big enough and they use two side by side , whenever they were late or away for a weekend I took over and see to the cats feed , they were sweet erm used to come on the porch and meow at me , it 's my dinner time , come on , just get not time yet , used to come to the porch , and tell me , they used to know when I was n't coming home , how do they do it ? |
| 26 | He said I ca n't pay you till Tuesday cos the money ai n't come through for the work he said . |
| 27 | Just for a minute I panicked . |
| 28 | George watched the people rushing about their business and just for a second he wondered what he was doing here . |
| 29 | Just for a second it seemed to Polly that they met and lingered on hers . |
| 30 | Just for a second she thought she detected a wary note in his voice . |