Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [vb pp] for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My case packed for an emergency is in that cupboard over there . |
| 2 | Nathaniel Houlton , a widower living in Bristol , itemized the details of his coffin in a will drafted on 26 May 1767 : ‘ First , It is my Will and Desire ( if it can be done without being Offensive ) to have my Body kept for the space of One Week at the Least after my Demise , before my Coffin ( which I direct shall have a Double or false Lid , as my late Wife 's had ) , be closed up ; … |
| 3 | I had had my head shaved for the sake of hygiene the day before I left England . |
| 4 | A decade later , after Crossman 's death in April 1974 , my firm acted for the publishers Jonathan Cape over the publication of his Diaries . |
| 5 | Not a single one of my colleagues doubted for a moment what she said . |
| 6 | Existing users can have their products upgraded for a cost expected to be some £500 per site ; new users can buy products from the wide-ranging series at between £900 and £50,000 . |
| 7 | They sat there side by side , Faye and Roberta , staring at Alice , so unlike Mary and Reggie that Alice was even amused — inside , of course , not letting it show And her heart hurt for the girls . |
| 8 | All these preparations for living off the land were unnecessary , for between them they knew of a network of wealthy houses , stretching from St Tropez to Mykonos , where bedrooms with a bath en suite , swimming-pools and occasional servants in white gloves would be put at their disposal by parents only too grateful to discover that their daughters had not , as yet , been violated by a lorry-driver or their sons arrested for the importation of stuff . |
| 9 | In Alaska I have seen seaplanes landed on tarmac in winter 's first snow to have their skis fitted for the rest of the season . |
| 10 | The winners and their parents were going to have their pictures taken for the newspaper . |
| 11 | The MCC should have their review finalised for the ICC meeting in January . |
| 12 | Their eyes met for a moment , then he looked away . |
| 13 | As he came through the hut again , the man was there , about to sign out , and their eyes met for a moment , and Cormack felt scared . |
| 14 | Their eyes met for a moment and Guido smiled back at her , flooding her heart with foolish pleasure . |
| 15 | Their eyes met for the space of a long heartbeat , and despite the clean white bandage round the man 's forehead and the strip of plaster on one bruised cheek , Grant felt a surge of rage at the thought that he was face to face with the brutal oriental who had hurt Pam . |
| 16 | Their eyes met for an instant . |
| 17 | Their eyes clashed for a moment , then Leonora shrugged . |
| 18 | Their eyes held for a moment and a slow smile began to grow on the darkly handsome face . |
| 19 | Flipping lazily on to her back , she floated with her eyes closed for a moment , frowning as the sound of a door closing echoed around the pool . |
| 20 | Limping , sniffing , aware that the rain could have ruined her best velvet skirt , she stumbled along , her eyes peeled for a phone box . |
| 21 | The house of the Fleece was fast shuttered by then , the wicket in the yard door closed but not barred ; and Julian was waiting in the doorway of the undercroft , her ears pricked for every footfall that passed along the alley . |
| 22 | She would stay there until Marion and her attendants left for the evening meal in the hall , then come out of her corner , stretch to ease the cramp in her legs , and check the baby again before slipping away out . |
| 23 | In 1927 Welford Beaton was left in no doubt that the motion picture was ‘ a throbbing , living , human thing ’ after Janet Gaynor 's performance in Frank Borzage 's Seventh Heaven and especially by her grief as her husband left for the war ; Beaton had cried at the time and even as he wrote the spell was not broken . |
| 24 | She had long since realized her husband worked for the government , but he had never discussed it with her , much less told her he was a spy . |
| 25 | The winner will feature on the Miss Pears soap cartons for the following year and have her picture painted for the Pears portrait gallery , as well as picking up a cheque for £1000 . |
| 26 | Originally de Gaulle hoped to sever important economic and strategic areas from Germany : the Ruhr industrial basin would become an international asset , its resources tapped for the benefit of all mankind ; the coal-rich Saarland would be in economic union with France ; the Rhineland would be under permanent military occupation . |
| 27 | The air between Hrun and Liessa crackled with small explosions of charisma as their gazes sought for a hold . |
| 28 | Their gazes locked for a second and then Flemyng followed his wife up the road towards their disfigured house among the birch trees . |
| 29 | Just as her own concerns were now absorbing her fully , the desire to see Luke , to be in his arms again paramount , the need to end their relationship ignored for the moment . |
| 30 | Its leaders called for a postponement of the multiparty elections scheduled for Feb. 10 , 1991 , on the grounds that they would not have sufficient time to organize a campaign , but this demand was immediately rejected by the government . |