Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [verb] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were times when Joanna 's somewhat footslogging performance made me long for the thoroughbred feel of Lisa , but I had an affection for Joanna and she had one advantage over Lisa — her small cuddy where I could cook and sleep , and be independent of the land . |
| 2 | I asked them to work for a loose confederation of equal republics , largely self-governing , but with certain specified powers on a federal basis . |
| 3 | Maxim found himself reaching for the non-existent seatbelt . |
| 4 | He found himself hovering for a dangerous moment between pity and fear and he fought down the pity at once , for it was not to be thought of that he should feel such an emotion for this evil being . |
| 5 | One night , waiting in her car outside a pub to which she had followed him , she suddenly found herself crying for the first time . |
| 6 | It was an impressive narrative , and impressively narrated ; Clara found her craving for the bizarre and the involved richly satisfied . |
| 7 | Support was evident from small business people whose firms were bankrupt , housewives who found themselves queuing for the basic necessities and civil servants and skilled workers whose salaries had fallen in real terms as a result of the inflation . |
| 8 | There were some who had been destined for fighters , especially Meteors , who found themselves headed for a dreaded bomber tour . |
| 9 | I found myself listening for the distinct crack , then gazing up at the clear starry sky trying to follow the flight of the shell . |
| 10 | All very contemporary , but I found myself hankering for the crisp definition of the old Frederick Austin arrangement . |
| 11 | ‘ So I found myself heading for the Far East in the Service Corps . ’ |
| 12 | Well , I phoned them up , and I 'd been badgering them , and they told me to wait for a further communication . |
| 13 | And squeamishness prevented me looking for a tiny insect to place on a sticky dewdrop leaf . |
| 14 | ‘ Miss Tuckey told us to look for a narrow objective within a broader attack . |
| 15 | Carel Weight visited Wimbledon and encouraged me to try for the Royal College . |
| 16 | She allowed herself to read for no more than half an hour a day . |
| 17 | The man claimed he spoke for a large group of serving and former policemen who styled themselves ‘ the Inner Circle ’ . |
| 18 | We made one change for the second week of interviewing . |
| 19 | There were two men apart from the one with the rifle and she heard them quarrelling for a long time in another room . ’ |
| 20 | When he first came into the Hampshire team , Greenidge 's natural inclination was to attack every ball , and it was Richards more than anyone who taught him restraint , taught him to wait for the bad ball . |
| 21 | The coroner heard it revealed for the first time — none of the family knew it — that Charlie had had a stroke a few months before , which explained the strange behaviour . |
| 22 | Controllers urged him to make for a remote runway which would take him over fields and small villages . |
| 23 | She often urged him to look for a suitable girl , but he always replied that there was plenty of time and to date no one had taken his fancy . |
| 24 | I asked for one ticket and paid for it , then I watched him ask for the same and fish down inside his carrier bag and bring out a ten pound note . |
| 25 | Shufflebotham watched him work for a few moments . |
| 26 | This led her to search for a continuous tradition which had been activated by occult means and linked the French and Russian Revolutions . |
| 27 | It made him long for the open fields of the island , again . |
| 28 | Old Black Hannah put in an appearance , and one or two other women from the village who remembered Martha as a child , and who , perhaps , shared her liking for the Old Faith ; but apart from them , it was just Mr Drew ( who galloped through the service as fast as he could ) , Jennifer and the two gravediggers , who came in after the blessing and carried the coffin out underhand , dumping it without much reverence into the mortice they had prepared for it . |
| 29 | 1987 's Locust Abortion Technician saw them dredging for the very dregs of sound . |
| 30 | The Pumas path to the final saw them account for the second Hallamshire squad represented at the weekend , thus ending any aspirations of Yorkshire success . |