Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] for the [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leeming signalled for the pad and took it from Duncan . |
| 2 | Lucy paid for the coffee and the rolls full of ham and cheese . |
| 3 | Donna paid for the teas and the two women walked out to the Fiesta and got in . |
| 4 | Tam paid for the drinks and they walked across to a table by the door . |
| 5 | Barlow confessed : ‘ Mo called for the ball and put me in two minds . |
| 6 | Hitch reached for the binoculars and peered through them . |
| 7 | If England qualify for the semi-final or final of the tournament in Sweden the Football Association will receive just 2,500 tickets . |
| 8 | Giles reached for the wine and emptied the rest of it into their glasses . |
| 9 | When I returned to the laibon 's village with the paperwork , he was looking out towards Ol Doinyo Lengai waiting for the sound and the dust and the cries of his cattle coming back . |
| 10 | Pottz drove for the peak and was winched irresistibly upwards . |
| 11 | Neither Willaert nor Rore composed for the keyboard though their works were often published in lute or keyboard transcription . |
| 12 | Cameron watched for the effect or this on the sawyer 's face . |
| 13 | We have improved the model by including bromine chemistry and refined the treatment of PSCs to allow for the sedimentation and evaporation as described in section 5 of ref. 9 . |
| 14 | In the Persian Wars , however , the Boiotian League had evidently not ordered a general policy , because Plataia and Thespiai fought for the Greeks whereas Thebes medised , a stain she was never to wipe out . |
| 15 | In the realm of the print , however , it is safe to say that paper napkins and chewing gum wrappers occupy the lower depths ( though let's not forget that A. Hyatt Mayor , the legendary Curator of Prints at the Metropolitan , acquired torn-off New Yorker covers for the collection as well as Tiepolo etchings ) . |
| 16 | MacKinnon J. found for the defendant and his decision was affirmed by the Court of Appeal ( Greer and Greene L.JJ. , Talbot J. ) . |
| 17 | But Hooper has earned a reprieve with Liverpool looking for the solidity and assurance he showed in last year 's UEFA Cup battle with Italian club Genoa . |
| 18 | Firstly , they could send requests to Paris asking for the abolition or limitation of the judicial control of the Parlement in Paris over the duchy 's courts . |
| 19 | What news will Chancellor Norman Lamont have for the motorist when he rises in the House of Commons next Tuesday to deliver his budget speech ? |
| 20 | Where will Mary look for the coin when she comes back in ? |
| 21 | In the eastern Ukraine , many rejected the pretensions of the Rada to speak for the province and sought to promote a workers ’ revolutionary movement as an alternative focus . |
| 22 | No I 'm actually going over to Northamptom working for the week so we 've just orgainsed to go down and see the game . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Murray reached for the mop but Richard pulled it away and squeezed it out in the bucket as he had seen the maids do . |
| 25 | The time trend accounts for the effects of a constant natural rate of growth of output while VP allows for the possibility that the efficiency of the economy , and hence the natural level of output , is reduced by a variable inflation rate . |
| 26 | Mum was waiting up for us when we got indoors , but before she could speak Mary began telling her about the agreement she had with Albert to pay for the wedding and this took the wind out of her sails . |
| 27 | On March 28 as every year , ex-servicemen of the North will gather at Morrisons in Darlington to bowl for the Roland and George Bradford trophies for the honours of their Messes . |
| 28 | Megarry VC found for the plaintiff and he said that four elements were necessary in testing for confidential quality : 1 . |
| 29 | While Annie put on her cloak and bonnet , Jonadab called for the pony and trap to be brought round to the door . |
| 30 | Susan reached for the doorhandle and found only smooth upholstery . |