Example sentences of "[Wh det] i [be] [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ maid ’ in the villa in which I am lodged for the purposes of research ( she is a statuesquely beautiful and highly intelligent woman who is called ‘ maid ’ , rather in the way the South Africans call elderly black servants ‘ boy ’ ) suffered the horror of seeing both her parents shot by the Germans whilst the aristocrats from the local castle entertained the S.S. officers to black market dinners of wild boar and chocolate sauce . |
| 2 | What I am suggesting for an understanding of the workings of television generic fiction and its associated forms of subjectivity ( or , indeed , of narrative cinema and its subjectivity ) , is that it may be more fruitful if we approach it as an historical development of the complex , theoretical genre of novelistic discourse rather than as a collection of autonomous elementary , historical genres . |
| 3 | ‘ I think what I 'm asking for a pair of shoes is fair enough though I am keeping the prices low as an incentive for my customers to come back for more . ’ |
| 4 | a little portion of what I 'm paying for the heel . |
| 5 | I first started to write at school and I 'd charge a few pence for each story — you should have seen what I was writing for the girls . |
| 6 | I ca n't recall what I was paid for the film . |