Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [verb] [adv] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because I 've had my hair highlighted regularly for the last ten years it gets really dry . |
| 2 | ‘ I could ask him and Tim and you , and make my mum go out for the evening . ’ |
| 3 | I told her it 's my wife come down for the day … ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I did n't feel like spending the rest of my life waiting around for the parts David Niven turned down , ’ was how he expressed it . |
| 5 | ‘ But I still wish you had accepted my invitation to stay here for the wedding , instead of at a hotel . ’ |
| 6 | Almost all wore skirts , make up and appeared to have had their hair done especially for the benefit of the cameras . |
| 7 | However professional and manly and disciplined the stance taken on their subject matter , English academics continued to be worried by their inability to account rationally for the intrinsic value , style , spirit , and mood of the literary work . |
| 8 | Henry Fielding wrote of the capital in 1751 : " What an immense variety of places has this town and its neighbourhood set apart for the amusement of the lowest order of the people . " |
| 9 | Its mouth curled upwards for the first time . |
| 10 | Many of the cahiers ( the statements of grievances and proposals for their rectification drawn up for the guidance of the States-General when it met in May 1789 ) proposed the building of public monuments to Louis XVI in recognition of his action in calling the States-General and thus restoring the ‘ liberties ’ of his people . |
| 11 | Her years in London bad merely strengthened her desire to live there for the rest of her life , and while she was there her mother seemed , most of the time , to be no more that a dreadful past sorrow , endured and survived . |
| 12 | Dorothy and her husband worked tirelessly for the various mission projects . |
| 13 | I am much , much more concerned about her voice lasting out for the evening . |
| 14 | It took all her strength to reach out for the receiver and raise it stiffly to her ear . |
| 15 | ‘ Sorry , sweetheart , you know I do n't understand mechanical things … ’ the car swung wide around a bend as her mother searched again for the switch . |
| 16 | Her mother goes in for the bingo . |
| 17 | He and Liena conversed for a while before he announced his decision to wait there for the return of Tony and Ferdy ( the Germans ) , and Dave the American , asking me to take care of Liena on the way down . |
| 18 | His luck ran out for the French students against their English counterparts when , though captain , he was given his marching orders for , guess what , stamping again . |
| 19 | His flat is modernist and bleak , his clothes are grey , she dresses in red and puts enough flowers in his kitchen to make up for the decimation of the rainforests . |
| 20 | Now he 'd lost that sense of fitting the rubrics which his kin and his province drew up for the proper conduct of a man like himself . |
| 21 | Then suddenly he seemed to sag back into his seat , his hand reaching slowly for the pen I was still holding out to him . |
| 22 | He was ready now , and had his hand held out for the instrument , lightly brushing her fingers accidentally as she passed it to him . |
| 23 | You see , the more positive side of his personality compensated neatly for the rest . |
| 24 | His thumb felt surely for the safety catch and pushed it off . |
| 25 | Of course , Preston did not spend all his time looking out for the holes . |
| 26 | We use your money to do more for the conservation of birds — and we also welcome your support |
| 27 | ‘ Bully , ’ said Angela , speaking very earnestly to the alsatian , ‘ here 's your chance to make up for the naughty things you 've done to me . |
| 28 | Day Two : At 8.00am breakfast is on the table and your cruiser casts off for the sail to the ancient spa town of Bad Schandau . |