Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [vb past] [adv] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a time the goat disappeared , and its place was taken by some hens , and these hens I looked after when , as quite often happened , their mistress went away for a few days . |
| 2 | 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 . " |
| 3 | Its mouth curled upwards for the first time . |
| 4 | Dorothy and her husband worked tirelessly for the various mission projects . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ He stayed in his room when his wife went off for a jaunt round Oxford , remember ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Automatically , his hand went out for a chocolate biscuit . |
| 10 | His cock lay against Richard 's and his hand searched underneath for a hole gently probing . |
| 11 | You see , the more positive side of his personality compensated neatly for the rest . |
| 12 | His thumb felt surely for the safety catch and pushed it off . |
| 13 | This time our hero Kevin ( Culkin ) gets on the wrong plane as he and his family set out for a Christmas break in Miami . |