Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [verb] [pron] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But these are not just shoelaces — use them to be different ; plait , twist , braid or cord them for a variety of looks and purposes , from bracelets , necklaces , hair bands , bag cords or to brighten up a pair of trainers . |
| 2 | She lashed the class with scorn and ridicule and punished them for the nasty thoughts in her own mind . |
| 3 | Putting their dinner on the table , Trent reached for the photograph and studied it for the umpteenth time since finding it on Don Roberto 's piano — his mother , and the Colonel as a young man . |
| 4 | I climbed on to the shed roof and gathered myself for the jump . |
| 5 | He flung the bedcovers off and stood up , shaking and staring wildly into the darkness , trying to identify the threat , knowing it had to be the Corsican and bracing himself for the shotgun blast that would cut him in half , disembowel him , blow his head off , send it bouncing across the floor of the bedroom . |
| 6 | She held my hand steady to bring the cigarette to the flame and kept it for a few seconds longer than she had to . |
| 7 | Yes , in Vienna , a lady , I will not say her name but assure you that any conversation I had with poor little Mrs Crump was most decidedly not on this subject and not about this lady — she has clearly clutched at a reference and taken it for a confidence — in Vienna , this lady of , I may admit it , royal connection , formed an attachment for me which was not reciprocated but proved most difficult to disengage . |
| 8 | But he would concede nothing , and in the end I gave him a dry little bow and thanked him for the tea . |
| 9 | So with this going on we found our company would get on better if I had collateral so I wrote to this boy and asked him for a million and put it in a trust fund that I would get after his death , and we that way so okay . |
| 10 | ‘ We had set a target of £600,000 to cover buying the equipment and running it for the first couple of years , ’ she said . |
| 11 | Erm , Chair , delegates thank you for the welcome and thank you for the invitation to speak to you . |
| 12 | When you pick up that telephone and answer it for an external caller , you 've become Oxford University Press and it 's important that we create the right impression for our customers , whoever they are . |
| 13 | Under these circumstances , all you can do is try to re-align the board on the artwork and expose it for a further period , but you may well have to scrap that attempt and start again with a freshly-coated board . |
| 14 | The selectors kept faith and picked him for the first Test at Edgbaston , where he bowled 42 overs without trouble , taking four wickets in his maiden Test , which England won , fairly comfortably , but 100 runs . |
| 15 | Put it in a box in your guitar case and save it for a rainy day . |
| 16 | As in Between , the binary definitions on which structuralist theory is founded receive parodic treatment which voids them of their original function and uses them for the purpose of telling the tale(s) of the novel . |
| 17 | Like my man in Hampstead , he does n't trust people to collect money and use it for the purpose they say they will . |
| 18 | In the real , as opposed to celluloid , world , Roxburgh would settle for a win emphatic enough to stabilise his team and prepare them for the more demanding games ahead . |
| 19 | He slammed the full magazine into the weapon and gripped it for a moment , the veins in his temple throbbing angrily . |
| 20 | He is suffering from the consequences of this accident and reproaches himself for the distress the family of the child is being put through . |
| 21 | Would you like to go to grandma and ask her for a cloth ? |
| 22 | She caught Stephen 's eye and held it for a second . |
| 23 | You can run clip-art through a drawing package and edit it for a more personal touch very quickly , and the printing quality is consistent , which is n't always the case with bitmaps . |
| 24 | In the end she had taken the brooch back to the shop and exchanged it for a plain silver cross on a chain . |
| 25 | His great-uncle took Charles under his wing and prepared him for the job ahead . |
| 26 | I 've moved back into and er I 'd just like to say I 'm sure on behalf of all of you and the people of that we see this as a tremendous move and thank you for the work you 've put in . |
| 27 | Put the containers in a warm place and leave them for a week . |
| 28 | Little mini and run it for a year , run the engine ru non stop for a year and it 's going to use quite a few gallons . |
| 29 | It will be white with a god-like figure like those Tibetan Buddhist temples which reflect the old vision of the winged disc and prepare us for the new . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm not the woman-hater who juggled eight women and kept lying to them all and kept them on a string and had one for every night , ’ he says . |