Example sentences of "and pray for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What an extraordinary suggestion , to put forward a girl — a charity child who was not a Sister , a novice , a postulant , nor anyone with the remotest intention of becoming a nun — and raise her up above the many Sisters in the Community who were all hoping and praying for a chance of higher education … what would they feel if a girl who had already been pampered , it seemed , by the convent in Knockglen , were put in to study , over their heads ? |
| 2 | But it 's the fact that the guy gave erm , my friend Billy , erm , died a few years ago , erm , but they , they were like best mates and they used to ju just encourage each other to like , jump on a train and come up to London , and start going in all the hospitals and praying for the sick and things like that . |
| 3 | DEREK Cook watched Coleraine go down to their fifth consecutive defeat — and prayed for a reprieve from manager Billy Sinclair . |
| 4 | ‘ The heat , ’ she lied , and prayed for the band to start playing , which it promptly did , this time a waltz . |
| 5 | Lee hurriedly asked Conrad to pour some wine , and prayed for the evening . |
| 6 | Then I remembered that , in the car was the last red rose from Bayeux — I placed it on the rough ground outside the house , and prayed for the family whose happy , safe home it had once been . |
| 7 | It was a room no-one ever came into , except the dead woman 's husband , who visited it religiously every Sunday morning before Mass , locking himself in for an hour , while , Ellie guessed , he dusted and tidied the shrine he had created , and prayed for the soul of the one departed . |
| 8 | On nights like this all Fontanellato was out , defying the curfew , and we all prayed that it would soon end and prayed for the people who lived there . |
| 9 | He foresaw a war and prayed for the victory of his people . |
| 10 | She sat with the blood thudding in her ears , just as it used to do when her mother began a tirade , and prayed for the impossible , for the carriage to be overturned , for it to be the wrong night , for her to develop a sudden and dangerous illness . |
| 11 | I learned that my parents had got to London and prayed for the day I 'd be able to see them . |
| 12 | Gabriel watched him go , and prayed for the grass to roll over him and swallow him up , like the Red Sea engulfing the Egyptian charioteers as they chased the Children of Israel . |
| 13 | Lord Jesus , we cry to You that You will bring peace to those who use force to try to gain their selfish way ; use Your people to be peacemakers ; help us to work and pray for a world where You will be King . |
| 14 | I encourage our members to love , respect and pray for the other churches and to seek their well-being and growth above our own . |
| 15 | Bishop David has now asked parishes to investigate the local problem , offer practical friendship and support , lobby the legislators — and pray for a just , compassionate solution . |
| 16 | We decided to move the chairs out to make more room , but the acceptances kept coming in so we thought we 'd open the French windows and pray for a sunny day . ’ |
| 17 | I think we should forget about what may have happened in the past and pray for a series which might well become a classic . |
| 18 | We pray too for the homeless of our nation , and pray for a way out from the spiral of poverty and deprivation that confronts many today . |
| 19 | Sit around and pray for a miracle ? |
| 20 | He believes that the houses can survive next year only if they start making their own videotapes of performances , make a habit of exchanging productions among the 13 houses and pray for the arrival of pay-television in Italy . |
| 21 | I would look out of the window at the blue sky and the cypresses and the sea , and pray for the day 's end , when I could retire to the masters ' wing , lie back on my bed and sip an ouzo . |
| 22 | All she could do was keep him at arm 's length — and pray for the strength to keep on doing it till they were released from their snowy prison . |