Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [verb] for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After replacing the 'phone I waited for the tingling to stop then looked at my watch . |
| 2 | With all my heart I hope for the failure of that first book — no , volume , of mine , from beginning to end not trash , but heartless pretence . |
| 3 | concrete stairs and , George nearly killed himself on them one morning , but er , and we tried everything to get out of there you know , no one would exchange a two bedroom maisonette for a house and of course I longed for a garden , but , and er George got a job in Hatfield and they offered this three bedroom house The Commission for The New Town , rent was cheaper than here , so we moved over there , but er , as I say we were only there two , three years and we came back again , we were over here , we used to come over here three times a week , when we lived there did n't we ? |
| 4 | A psychological astronomer , I calculated its apogee at approximately 2 to 3 o'clock , unless of course I stopped for a drink . |
| 5 | ‘ The money I get for the scrap is paid into the Finance Department , and when the fund has built up to a worthwhile sum I 'll be calling for suggestions for a local charity to whom we can donate the cash . ’ |
| 6 | I put aside some of the money I got for the silver , because Daddy meant to divide his things between us both . ’ |
| 7 | In the first part I argue for the inclusion of gender awareness as a valid dimension of educational analysis of the arts and , as a vehicle for this argument , posit a set of four general criteria which might legitimately be used by arts educators as part of a re-evaluation of the arts curriculum in this regard . |
| 8 | Unless one supposes there to be two categorially different kinds of appearances presented to the mind it will then seem that this flat circle must be the only object of visual perception , and the round globe I seem to see , the epistemic appearance , must really be a judgement I mistake for a sensation . |
| 9 | ‘ If you must have chapter and verse — you remember that piece I did for the Statesman ? |
| 10 | Like here in the north of Australia , I 've been waiting for two days for the light I need for a shot of some valleys . |
| 11 | In the camp canteen I looked for the woman who had encouraged me to come to what , by the minute , I was beginning to feel was a god-forsaken hole . |
| 12 | These interventions , associated with the Keynesian revolution in economic thinking which called for the state to become involved in maintaining the level of aggregate demand in the economy through the use of budgetry policies , have been seen not as a triumph of democratic struggle but as a further example of the use of the state as an instrument of the interests of the ruling class . |
| 13 | When war broke out in South Africa MacBride was one of the first and most prominent members of the Irish Brigade which fought for the Boer republics , and at Ladysmith , Colenso , and elsewhere he proved himself to be a brave and resourceful soldier . |
| 14 | Last year Norway killed 95 minke whales as part of a scientific research programme which calls for a total of 400 whales to be killed in the period 1992-94 . |
| 15 | It develops a state of mind which lasts for the rest of one 's life ; an approach to things . |
| 16 | It follows that fear of impending death felt by the victim of a fatal injury before that injury is inflicted can not by itself give rise to a cause of action which survives for the benefit of the victim 's estate . |
| 17 | Intuitively , what is happening here is that the force which argues for an increase in output ( fall in prices ) from the double marginalization position in monopoly is being outweighed by a force which argues for a decrease in output ( increase in price ) from the duopoly position . |
| 18 | Intuitively , what is happening here is that the force which argues for an increase in output ( fall in prices ) from the double marginalization position in monopoly is being outweighed by a force which argues for a decrease in output ( increase in price ) from the duopoly position . |
| 19 | This we have called antecedent , a way of seeing causation which calls for the use of the to infinitive to signify the before/after relation between the cause and the effect . |
| 20 | Then at top speed she raced for the keeper 's cottage . |
| 21 | In future the computer expert will be the outsider who works for the manufacturer or as an independent adviser . |
| 22 | This uncertainty about the proper role of litigation by private citizens is also reflected in the requirement that a litigant who applies for a prerogative order must first seek the leave of the court to do so . |
| 23 | Shelley was a poet who spoke for the people . |
| 24 | J. S. Homes , the National Liberal MP for Harwich , made an early visit , closely followed by the mayor who arranged for the town band to give a concert . |
| 25 | For the interview she opted for a cream silk shirt , and a tailored black skirt . |
| 26 | ( Calle 's show also includes , in the gallery 's smaller room , the piece she did for the Carnegie International about the theft of Old Master paintings from Boston 's Gardner Museum . ) |
| 27 | She took her notepad from the pocket of her apron as she went , and at the doorway she stopped for a moment as if to gather herself . |
| 28 | Gavin Nebbeling was a tall , upright , South African central defender who played for the Palace throughout the 1980s , but his career was continually dogged by injury and this rather limited his value , although his League appearances exceeded 150 by the time he moved on to Fulham in the summer of 1989 . |
| 29 | The name given to an Icelandic shepherd who worked for a farmer named Thorwall . |
| 30 | Bo Jackson , the outstanding running-back who rushes for the Raiders when not playing baseball for the Kansas City Royals , returns to practice this week , but is unlikely to be ready for the Raiders game on Sunday … against the Kansas City Chiefs . |