Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [verb] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He just shut his eyes and hoped for the best . |
| 2 | He saw the naked longing in her amber eyes and realized for the first time how much he had been neglecting her . |
| 3 | Yanto closed his eyes and waited for the inevitable . |
| 4 | The wise veterans nod their heads and wait for the first whistle . |
| 5 | On behalf of all local authority caterers , I thank Joe Hyam for his kind words and support for the local authority caterers . |
| 6 | You get the end of season and it 's if you look at the labels and go for the decent labels then you do n't get sort of , quite reasonable quality . |
| 7 | She pursed her lips and reached for the next letter on the pile of personal correspondence brought in by her secretary . |
| 8 | The Company did not send expeditions of its own into this area for over a century ; like the East India and the Royal Africa Companies it established trading posts and waited for the local inhabitants to come and trade at them . |
| 9 | An essential element in job creation is the provision of training for school leavers and retraining for the long term unemployed . |
| 10 | That done , the wee dandy , roofed by a wig of blazing defiance , hooked thumbs into his waistcoat pockets and sauntered for the bar-top city heights . |
| 11 | Well , she 'd simply have to find the strength within herself to resist that power , she decided grimly , rising to her feet and reaching for the long black dress she 'd laid out earlier to change into . |
| 12 | She rose gracefully to her feet and made for the front door , with Melissa following . |
| 13 | She looked up at the books on the shelves and reached for the closest . |
| 14 | Barton Lynch , sitting out the qualifying rounds and waiting for the main event , recalled the 1988 Billabong , which for the first time had been held at Pipeline . |
| 15 | The committees are empowered to take evidence from ministers , civil servants and outside experts and to call for the necessary papers and records . |
| 16 | ‘ I pay enough tax on my first job ’ , Mike said , and did n't accept the connection between taxes and help for the unemployed . |
| 17 | It would have meant seven hundred vacancies and work for the jobless . |
| 18 | Details are not yet available , but one proposal is to establish regular deadlines for grant applications and to require for the first selection round a short summary of project proposals rather than the full 20-page application , as is now the case . |
| 19 | The Dutch were probably right , to judge from a handwritten note de Gaulle gave Chancellor Konrad Adenauer at that time : ‘ The supernational organisms of the six , which tend inevitably and abusively to become irresponsible superstates , will be reformed , subordinated to governments and used for the normal tasks of the council and technical business . ’ |
| 20 | Well , what is a man to do , deprived at a stroke of his habitual daily employment for forty years and living for the first time with his widowed younger sister who is always surveying him for signs of disorder , be they physical , emotional or sartorial , and nagging him about unpunctuality for meals . |
| 21 | While Iraq demanded the unconditional release of all prisoners-of-war ( PoWs ) and their return to their countries of origin on " humanitarian and legal " grounds , Iran insisted that the issue of prisoner exchange could not be separated from territorial questions and called for the simultaneous withdrawal of Iranian and Iraqi troops from each other 's territory with prisoner exchange . |
| 22 | I rowed on a few yards and anchored for the sixth time . |
| 23 | Now aged 38 , Harwood has been making things , perfecting techniques and designing for the last twenty years but is barely known outside a small group of cognoscenti . |
| 24 | We stomped down the stone steps to collect our sacks and made for the Upper Tier of the crag . |
| 25 | The officer said people should lose their sectional interests , should learn to accept orders and to work for the common good . |
| 26 | Half way up , Springsteen shot through his legs and passed me at about Mach 5 , doing a handbrake turn at the bottom of the stairs and heading for the back door . |
| 27 | This would embrace all the institutional players and allow for the rolling settlement system to be cut to just three days — in line with the systems in other international centres . |
| 28 | Check the excellent scantily clads and look for the blatant Talkin Loud ‘ inspiration ’ |
| 29 | It included beggars homes , hostels for children and working girls and care for the elderly . |
| 30 | The two final sections are reserved almost exclusively for Botticelli , with three illustrations for Dante 's Inferno and a series of monochrome on canvas studies for ‘ The Adoration of the Magi ’ , which has been rescued from the Uffizi storerooms and restored for the present exhibition . |