Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] [vb past] for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Immediately it sprouted numerous legs and scrabbled for a purchase . |
| 2 | He opened his eyes and searched for a break in the streaming fog . |
| 3 | Again Hassan closed his eyes and waited for a second . |
| 4 | Fabia stirred , awakened in her hotel bedroom that Monday and , as memory awakened with her , she abruptly closed her lovely green eyes and wished for a moment that she were back in England . |
| 5 | Miss Stoner put her hand over her eyes and cried for a minute . |
| 6 | She closed her eyes and concentrated for a second , shaking the blues from her thoughts . |
| 7 | You cos you know Bonnie yeah , sh she erm got offered a er job in Glitters in Camden yeah it 's a shop in Camden , and sh she told Honey and Dan about it yeah and the next thing she knows yeah like the next day , she 's talking to Dan and Honey and Honey comes out and says oh I went down to Glitters and asked for a job right said right to Honey 's face I mean Bonnie 's face . |
| 8 | Then quietly I walked down the steps and felt for a seat on one of the wooden forms ; after being hissed at by several people I found one empty , next to an old woman . |
| 9 | The new cars were a sensation when they first appeared , passengers let old cars pass in order to ride on them , and upon entering removed their hats and looked for a door mat ! |
| 10 | People dismiss this aspect of Wordsworth 's poetry as ‘ odd ’ , forgetting that George Orwell became a tramp for six weeks and lived for a year as a down-and-out ; and Shakespeare wrote a play about a mad old man who was also a vagrant ! |
| 11 | The day looked bright but cold ; I laced up the Docs and went for a walk in the hills behind Gallanach . |
| 12 | Once in my hotel room , I got hold of the Yellow Pages and dialled for a woman . |
| 13 | In the present chapter , both of these assumptions will be criticized in a variety of ways and rejected for a variety of reasons . |
| 14 | She moved to the stairs and stood for a moment in the silence of the hallway , the candle flickering in her hand . |
| 15 | When she followed the instructions and applied for a job interview she was told : ‘ Sorry , we are only recruiting staff from Ireland . ’ |
| 16 | Wycliffe passed through the general office with a word to the two girls and stood for a while in the yard while the timber-lorry drove away and the big double doors were closed behind it . |
| 17 | The just before Christmas a teenager came in with his friends and asked for a book ‘ honestly ’ listing all the mistakes in the Bible . |
| 18 | Other locals , not directly involved with the gangs , but basking in the glory and the protection bought rounds of drinks or waited for a chance to join in the conversation . |
| 19 | He still encountered in his daily life a few who looked past the empty gaud that distracted lesser minds and longed for a revelation that would burn the tinsel away , an Apocalypse that would show the Fifth the glories it yearned for in its sleep . |
| 20 | She suddenly began to gnaw her knuckles and paused for a moment , plunged in memory . |