Example sentences of "[adv prt] [pron] [adj] [noun sg] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 16 April , the day of the vigil , I put on my smart suit for the last of the interviews and went into work to look through the papers . |
| 2 | A popular legend grew up that quoted him as saying he would run over his own grandmother for the president . |
| 3 | Fry , sacked only 10 days ago , has somehow patched up his differences with chairman Stan Flashman and will take over his old job for the game against Rochdale today . |
| 4 | There were people bringing baking before going to work ; people carrying in the food given by our friends in City Centre businesses ; and ladies from St. Mary 's R.C. Cathedral arriving for duty in the Undercroft ; so many other helpers too , reminding me of Nan Munn 's immortal lines , ‘ each to their stations/We 're ready for the off/Where is John Gibson/Where 's my tin box ’ ; people handing in contributions ; Miss Cameron 's chauffeur , with dog collar instead of peaked cap , delivering her , before his car took up its privileged position for the Week in the Standard Life car park ; and last , and most important , the good friends in the community who came to support us . |
| 5 | By dumping the new arrivals less than a year later , BZW , chaired now as then by Sir Martin Jacomb , has shown up its American adventure for the opportunistic grab it was . |
| 6 | Kinane , making a flying visit home between last weekend 's Breeders ' Cup meeting in Florida and resuming his contract job in Hong Kong , was also bringing up his domestic century for the season . |
| 7 | Walsall Kipping turned out their strongest team for the decisive match of the season : IM Robert Bellin , WGM Jana Bellin ( England 's number two woman player ) , Darren and Mark Wheeler , David Anderton OBE ( a member of the FIDE executive ) , Michael Gough , Maurice Johnstone and Graham Smith . |
| 8 | Then she lifted the receiver while still holding out her other hand for the dog to lick . |
| 9 | The Government will have mapped out its legislative programme for the session in the Queen 's Speech at the opening of the session and will give first priority to the commitments there undertaken and to any important urgent Bill ( as has happened in recent decades in the cases of Rhodesia and Northern Ireland ) . |
| 10 | In the extremely emotional ‘ Sestina : Lagrime d'Amante al Sepolcro dell'Amata ’ Monteverdi pours out his personal grief for the young singer Caterina Martinelli in passages of declamatory solo or duet which the other voices accompany . |
| 11 | The only sign he ever gave that anything was amiss in his family was the number of times he got out his thumbnail-sized pipe for the comfort of the single puff it gave him . |
| 12 | A rich flavour of the exchange comes from a tape recording of Charlie Allen , his CIA ‘ minder ’ , and Ledeen talking to Ghorbanifar on January 25th , four days before North had read out his grand scenario for the end of the regime . |
| 13 | He holds out his small hand for the ticket . |
| 14 | It took him a little while , but he got it fixed in the end , then held out his dummy hand for the gun . |
| 15 | Curious to find out what crucial sound for the nineties he might be buying , I peered over Michael 's shoulder ( not a difficult thing to do ) , only to see … |