Example sentences of "[conj] [noun prp] [verb] [adv] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Liphook strove hard for the equaliser , they were unable to take advantage of the many opportunities created . |
| 2 | His father , however , preferred that Farrar went in for a professional career , and Farrar was articled to a firm of architects and surveyors in Northampton , becoming a Fellow of the Geographical Society . |
| 3 | It 's a sort of goodwill thing that Bonn puts out for the Allied forces ; it does n't outsell Playboy . |
| 4 | The Captain and his wife proved so hospitable that Ricky stayed on for a few days after Minton left to stay with Paul ( ‘ Odo ’ ) Cross and Angus Wilson at their home Rio Chico at Ocho Rios . |
| 5 | Just as he reacted strongly against Richards 's suggestion that The Waste Land had severed poetry from belief , which carried the implication that the poem was a cultural museum , so Eliot campaigned now for the preservation of London 's churches not as museum pieces , but as centres of religion . |
| 6 | Becker and Engelman combined only for a pleasantly smoochy encore by David Jaeger , composed this year and arranged by Engelman from a piano accompaniment to the viola . |
| 7 | ‘ A call I should like , ’ said Dorothy , with some emphasis , ‘ but Ray seems to be inviting himself and Kathleen to stay here for a night or two . ’ |
| 8 | But Dzagnidze then followed his own kick for a try in the corner , and Mironov swept through for a try that Dzagnidze converted . |
| 9 | Will you and Jane wait there for a while until I 'm respectable again ? ’ |
| 10 | Gazza and Maradona square up for the first time for the world 's undisputed No 1 title as Lazio take on Seville in a friendly in Spain . |
| 11 | Joe and Eileen were given short compassionate leave and Stephen came home for the funeral . |
| 12 | ‘ He 's being Christian again , ’ said Camille , and she and Sam giggled intermittently for the rest of the evening . |
| 13 | I was n't even tempted , until Darren came home for a while and started having a lot of fits . |
| 14 | If Owen looked round for the cameras , North acted throughout as though he was sure they were there . |
| 15 | Stella and Geoffrey stood in for the ‘ lost boys ’ . |
| 16 | Alistair , Wendy and Anna come in for the worst of it . |
| 17 | Finn must have been lying awake in the darkness , as she was , the wall separating them like Tristan 's sword , for she could hear the soft murmur of him and Francie talking together for a little while , but she could not make out one word . |
| 18 | On the contrary , all seemed set fair , and when they had loaded the packing-cases on to the cart Matey and McAllister set off for the church hall , to lay out the stall , to have everything ready for the afternoon 's visitors , Dr Neil having promised to come along to help them . |
| 19 | He and Sybil took off for a few weeks ' holiday before going back to London . |
| 20 | We are led inexorably towards Kingsley and Redford squaring up for a mental duel between software equals , one barmily convinced that He Who Has The Database Rules The World and the other on the side of human compassion which ca n't be reduced to byte-size chunks . |
| 21 | I 'd seen Chola and Mina setting out for the forest in the early morning , and three times during the day I 'd watched them coming back , stooped over and staggering under the weight of the enormous loads that spread across their backs , stretching three times broader than their shoulders and several feet above their heads . |
| 22 | Chola and Mina set out for the fields to continue the millet harvest , and Kalchu fetched the flat wooden spade and began beating down the mud to repair the leaking roof . |
| 23 | Soon afterwards Chola and Mina set out for the hills to gather grass . |
| 24 | The pal then puts his phone receiver to the radio and Mike listens in for the next 90 minutes — cost £6.75 . |
| 25 | Both Beatrice and Modigliani behaved impeccably for the occasion . |
| 26 | Following two days ' rest Venables and Renshaw set off for a final attempt taking a more direct line , avoiding sections of 70 degree snow and ice by passages of rock and mixed climbing . |
| 27 | In September 1316 Edward retained him for a very large fee in return for the promise of his service with a commensurately large retinue ; and shortly afterwards he and Pembroke set off for the papal curia on a mission which had the repeal of the Ordinances as one of its objectives . |
| 28 | In April 1990 an all-out battle between Bègles and Montferrand raged on for a while before the referee could stop the slaughter . |
| 29 | Mum drove the car into the huge car park and Stuart looked out for a parking space . |
| 30 | It was already beginning to fill up with French businessmen , and Jean-Paul made purposefully for a table in the window . |