Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [pers pn] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Chinese , who used ivory for elaborately carved handles and vessels as early as the Shang dynasty and in later times used it for a wide variety of personal items such as brush pots , wrist-rests , boxes , seals , snuff boxes and fans , had increasingly to import the material as the elephant herds in the southern provinces diminished . |
| 2 | I had each Wednesday afternoon off from Russell 's and he enroled me , secretly , into his school for lessons with his normal classes , He and his wife held a weekly open house and these cramming sessions prepared me for the coming Halton entrance examination . |
| 3 | Fishing Lines : The staring eyes have it for a longer life |
| 4 | Tory plans to sell it for a small shopping mall were scuppered when Labour seized control last year . |
| 5 | Having always been aware of the Cathedral I 've often wondered what impact it has on visitors seeing it for the first time . |
| 6 | But they do it though and they expect the cleaners to do it for no extra pay ? |
| 7 | Taylor replaced him and , according to Rust , ‘ preached to the admiration and astonishment of his auditory ; and by his florid and youthful beauty … and sublime and pleasant air made his hearers take him for a young angel ’ . |
| 8 | The strong-smelling ‘ stewed ’ strips of blanket were hot , and as I wrung out the excess water , I needed tongs to hold them for the first few minutes . |
| 9 | By then she felt that she had seen enough paintings , churches , marble floors and medieval palaces to last her for a long time . |
| 10 | In all such cases the plaintiff is entitled to damages to compensate him for the lost benefit . |
| 11 | But in the former case the plaintiff will have a capital asset in his hands , and he is only entitled to recover damages to compensate him for the additional expenditure involved . |
| 12 | His absorption with Mao and Castro was so open that the neighbors took it for a double bluff , and each new discovery of an agent transmitting messages from some ordinary-looking English suburb increased the tension of their interest in the land mine who was surely bound one day to go off in their own street . |
| 13 | And when the bridal party came out into the church porch and stood blinking and smiling in the winter daylight , Sir Felix Lark , his wild eyes excessively unstable , was instantly at Linnet 's elbow , topping the suave invitations of Mr Adolphus Moon to meet his artistic friends with offers to mount her for the Far Flatley hunt . |
| 14 | The girls join them for a final splash in the pool . |
| 15 | If you make good use of the contacts it forces you to make in Ardmore , Wellington or Christchurch , you can get a very useful insight into the local scene that helps prepare you for the fascinating flying that lies ahead . |
| 16 | ‘ What will people think when those children ask her for an improper story ! ’ |
| 17 | He would take frustrating and puzzling journeys on the serpentine British railways to see her for a snatched fraction of a weekend in a provincial rep . |
| 18 | Our fathers disciplined us for a little while as they thought best ; but God disciplines us for our good , that we may share in his holiness . |
| 19 | His guardian uncles intended him for an academic career , and his brother Christopher , presumably of similar intelligence and attainment , later became Master of Trinity . |