Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb pp] [adv] for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She reached up and pulled his head down , her lips parted expectantly for a renewal of his kisses . |
| 2 | Their eyes locked together for an instant , and Alyssia felt suddenly dizzy , as though the breath had been knocked out of her , then she regained her self-control , and replied politely , ‘ I 'll be down for lunch . ’ |
| 3 | Their eyes locked together for an instant , and she felt as though he was seeing right into her soul , into bits of her that no one had ever seen before . |
| 4 | Both views are right ( Handy and Aitken 1986:34 ) : In that they are collections of individuals brought together for a purpose , schools are subject to all the problems , limitations and excitements that are inherent in getting people to work together , wherever they do it . |
| 5 | THE leader of Scotland 's solicitors called yesterday for an end to piecemeal tinkering and urged on the Government a major review of the entire system of justice . |
| 6 | THREE conservation groups called yesterday for a boycott of Faroese fish in an attempt to halt the annual slaughter of pilot whales by the islanders . |
| 7 | It is therefore possible , if the arguments presented above for a small , co-citing cluster of journals in Scottish geology excluded from SCI 's Source Index are valid , that many citations will have been missed . |
| 8 | The enemy artillery had opened up , lobbing heated roundshot on to the ice , smashing it into a multitude of floes , upon which men perched perilously for a time before toppling off into the lake . |
| 9 | I had once found two names scratched on one of the window-panes , ‘ perhaps two soldiers billeted here for a time at the beginning of the 1914 War … ’ ( or perhaps soldiers in hiding at the time of the Reformation ? ) |
| 10 | It 's beyond our Ken , TV 's voice of soccer and it 's top commentator through the 50s and 60s , that anyone could prefer the domestic Premier League highlights cobbled together for an hour on BBC 's Saturday night Match of the Day . |