Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] for [art] [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | When at last my number came , I presented myself at the window and asked for a ticket on the 10.05 to Stockholm the next morning . |
| 2 | Cheeky Paula produced a sprig of mistletoe and asked for a peck on Channel 4 's Big Breakfast Show . |
| 3 | Indenbaum remembered that he was gentle , with a beatific smile , and asked for a tune on the harmonium … |
| 4 | The painting of the Virgin blessing Christ before the Passion by Urbino was once popular with newly-wedded couples who knelt before it and asked for a blessing on their marriage . |
| 5 | Leonora contemplated argument , abandoned it , and , without taking the hand , got up and started for the stairs on leaden feet , full of foreboding about the night ahead . |
| 6 | Then quietly I walked down the steps and felt for a seat on one of the wooden forms ; after being hissed at by several people I found one empty , next to an old woman . |
| 7 | Butler stubbed out his cigar in an ashtray and reached for a telephone on the table beside him . |
| 8 | ‘ Of course , ’ Kegan said and reached for the intercom on his desk . |
| 9 | I shimmied shivering to the bedsit , slotted another shilling in the gas fire and reached for the knob on the third drawer of the tallboy . |
| 10 | The eyebrow quirked further , but fitzAlan merely rose to his feet and reached for the pack on the floor beside the bed . |
| 11 | He came to the Kingsbrook bridge and paused for a moment on the parapet , listening to the soft suck and chatter of the stream . |
| 12 | Serious , and reluctant , she pushed his hand away , and waited for the kisses on the cheek allowed within the code . |
| 13 | He opened the front door and stood for a moment on the step looking at the glimmer of light touching the pale dome of the church and the glow of the city thrown up against the sky . |