Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun prp] [vb past] for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At that moment Larsen stopped for a breather , glanced up and caught sight of Grant 's head outlined against the night sky . |
| 2 | A non-permanent colour added both warmth and shine to Michelle 's hair — colourist Kerry opted for a mix of Havannah and Natural Dark Brown from the Colour Touch range . |
| 3 | Kit Everard sent for a midwife from the islanders to come and help her ; two did so , and strained coffee roots in tisanes to strengthen her as she laboured . |
| 4 | Rising to his feet on the floor of the penthouse Nicholas staggered for a moment , while his wrists were being wrenched back and lashed ; and knew from the way John was standing that he had received the same treatment . |
| 5 | With her new role Alison qualified for a company car . |
| 6 | Whatever Massim 's cousin Sunil did for a living , he did it from an old-fashioned headmaster 's desk and a small personal computer . |
| 7 | On graduation Reagan opted for a career in show business . |
| 8 | It is easy enough to see why candidate Clinton opted for a tax on energy consumption . |
| 9 | Anxious about his prospects of liberation , the slave Moschos went for a night of incubation to the temple and had a dream in which the divine pair Amphiaraus and Hygieia ordered him to write down what he had seen and to set it up in stone by the altar . |
| 10 | During his visit Dumas called for an acceleration in the reform programme already under way in Laos . |
| 11 | By the time Bomberg applied for a war artist 's commission in 1939 he was a sadly neglected figure . |
| 12 | During the course of his speech Roh called for a breaking of " the shackles of the past " and for the development of a closer relationship between Japan and South Korea which would serve as a fulcrum from which " to promote peace and prosperity in north-east Asia " . |
| 13 | Considerable evidence suggests that Fromanteel and Huygens worked in close co-operation , and Fromanteel 's son John worked for a while in The Hague in 1657 under Salomon Coster , who had sole licence to construct Huygens 's pendulum clocks there . |