Example sentences of "[that] [pron] [verb] [adv] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As there was only the one company it is reasonable to infer that everyone roped in for the first loan was in fact a Merchant Taylor . |
| 2 | Not that I cared much for the way he kept them . |
| 3 | In my own defence I can say only that I went along for the ride , as it were , if you 'll forgive the expression , Mr Milton . ’ |
| 4 | There were , of course , the inevitable forms to fill in and letters of condolence to answer , but I realized that I had not for a moment , since before the previous Christmas , given a thought to the prospect of life for one . |
| 5 | I have to confess that I saved up for a portable television before I saved up for a washing machine , but then my priorities may have been different if I had not had a laundrette opposite the front door . |
| 6 | Yeah yeah yeah I had a shilling pocket money and out of that I saved up for a bike . |
| 7 | Continued on Page 4 Continued from Page 1 Chief Insp Phil McDonald said : ‘ It is obvious that someone cares dearly for the child as clothing and provisions were left with him and he appears to be well cared for and in good health . ’ |
| 8 | It is a low repetitive moan that she keeps up for the rest of the afternoon . |
| 9 | It seemed that she stood there for an age before Nicky said , ‘ A cup of tea would be rather nice . ’ |
| 10 | Unfortunately , little is known about her life , however , it is understood that she worked regularly for the National Geographic magazine , for whom she did some of their earliest published colour photography . |
| 11 | ‘ It shows the hypocrisy of our society that we work hard for the born handicapped … yet before their birth we are doing everything we can to seek them out and kill them . |
| 12 | Taiwan is one of the most Westernised countries in this region , and our last few surveys have shown that we 're attracting an extensive local listenership now , covering an age-group ranging from mid-teens to late thirties , so we want to ditch a lingering perception that we exist solely for the benefit of non-nationals . |
| 13 | It was then that they scooped out for the storage of goods the extensive vaults and cellaring that still run beneath the old town today . |
| 14 | Many people will not realise that there is a property element built in and that they qualify only for the 25 per cent . |
| 15 | These differ from college accommodation services in that they act not for the prospective tenant but on behalf of the landlords by pre-sifting applicants . |
| 16 | When they crested a wooded hill shortly before sunset and saw cultivated fields stretching down towards a small village in the distance it took all her will-power not to beg that they stop there for the night . |
| 17 | It was Jeff who 'd insisted that they stop off for a drink . |
| 18 | They cut off their hands so that they go about for the rest of their lives with bleeding stumps . ’ |
| 19 | The traditional complaint of consumers — who in Belfast supermarkets this week demonstrated their enthusiasm for cheaper beef — is that they pay twice for the beef mountain . |
| 20 | It may be that it exists essentially for the purpose of meshing sentence-construction with pragmatic principles ; for example , for " foregrounding " and " backgrounding " informational content ( or , in the terms preferred in this book , for eliciting certain pragmatic implications ) . |
| 21 | Not that he 'd ever for a moment think of … taking advantage , so to speak , of a young woman of loose morals like Mrs Heatherington-Scott . ’ |
| 22 | Though before she could get in with a quick plea for an interview , Vendelin Gajdusek revealed that he had not for a moment forgotten the way in which the Dobermann had attached himself to her ankle , by decreeing , ‘ You 'd better come into the house and have some antiseptic put on that wound . ’ |
| 23 | It is unknown to find any subject of Her Majesty who does not say , when asked , that he cares passionately for the Health Service , and believes that more money should be spent on it . |