Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any decent sized salmon would be bound to show itself as it moved around waiting for the next tide to free it . |
| 2 | THREE-quarters of the track including half the through lines , the semaphore signals , the last vestiges of freight facilities and the last of the men who used proudly to work for the old railway company have gone , yet the long-distance service is faster , more frequent and above all better used than at any time in railway history , and the number of passengers passing through probably at an all time high . |
| 3 | While Lee 's claims on Dickerson are evidently still large , perhaps he 'd better look for a new cinematographer now that his old pal has a director 's credit . |
| 4 | A word gets around the famine is over and after the tragic experience of loosing her family , her three men in her life , her husband and her sons , nobody starts to consider the situation again , she 's alone now in a foreign , a strange land , surely the only sensible thing for her to do would be to return to her own people in Bethlehem , they say news comes through that they 've been a succession of good harvest , well of course there was gon na be good harvest , god had n't forsaken his people , although they had sinned , although they had done what was wrong , he had n't forsaken them , gods not in the business for forsaken people , he 's long suffering , he is faithful , he keeps his covenant from one generation to another that he had n't forgotten the people in Bethlehem and he had sent them through and he had provided good harvests those who had remained in Bethlehem during the famine , they 'd only suffered for a short time , perhaps enough time to bring them to their senses , to bring them back to god , now the suffering was forgotten as they revelled in a plentiful supplying in abundant harvests Naomi on the other hand she knows want now , she 's suffering bereavement , she 's suffering poverty , she 's suffering remorse , there 's nothing for her in Noad , there 's no rest , no joy , no provision , nothing that could meet her needs what a pity she had wasted there those ten wasted those ten years , ten long wasted years in her life now she comes to a decision whatever the cost and there is a cost , she 's gon na have to eat humble pie , how are they gon na receive her when she goes back but she comes to that decision that no matter what it costs her , she will go back to the place that was chosen for her by god , her inheritance of him It always to our cost when we under value our inheritance , do you remember the story of Jacob and Aesop and how Aesop despised his birth right , the inheritance that was his , and Illuminarc and Naomi had done the same , and you and I can do it so easily , leaving , forgetting , not entering in to the inheritance that is ours in Christ , we do it to our own costs , and so she goes through that I 'm gon na go back , I 'm gon na take up my inheritance , I 'm going back home . |
| 5 | When a pupil came in asking for a special book , he would rush and find it before Mr Crangle . |
| 6 | He 'd probably asked for the best sherry available , she rightly guessed . |
| 7 | It is a curious miscellany , where photographs of his early ballets are mixed in with family snap-shots , pictures of his friends , souvenirs of journeys , Christmas and other greetings , a book of clothing coupons from the days of rationing , costume drawings and various illustrations cut from magazines , including a feature on Roland Petit 's ballet Carmen and examples of the ‘ new look ’ in women 's clothes when long skirts came back to fashion for the first time since the war ; he proposed a ballet about that , but it was rejected . |
| 8 | Am I glad we came out to work for the entire season , Rosie ! |
| 9 | Salisbury , an eager nightwatchman , held out against some torrid deliveries midst some frantic appealing , and all seemed well set for a gripping fourth and fifth day . |
| 10 | He warned his players to expect a hostile reception in England and said : ‘ We came mentally prepared for a hard time and determined to give our answer out there on the field . |
| 11 | This may have brought comfort to some but statistically it was as risky as playing Russian roulette , and I laid off smoking for the next seven years . |
| 12 | The outcome of the local government election showed little change for the main parties , and SDLP MP Eddie McGrady said the Secretary of State would see the results revealed nothing that he did not already know . |
| 13 | Most significantly , over two-thirds of those who turned out voted for the early election of a new parliament ( not now due until 1995 ) . |
| 14 | The day drew on , and Tagan scouted ahead to look for a possible camping site . |
| 15 | In time , Keating shuffled off to spectate for a rival weekly but , as a kindly man , he offered encouragement to his successor . |
| 16 | He then rushed off to prepare for the main service of the morning as the Minster bells began to ring out . |
| 17 | The Livingstones and Crichtons did this in 1439 , when they seized James II and then settled down to squabble for the next decade ; the Boyds did the same thing with James III ; and Angus found time , despite his matrimonial problems with Margaret Tudor , to get possession of James V in 1526 and dominate politics for the last two years of the minority . |
| 18 | Moodie , despite a clutch problem on his Honda , closed within four seconds at Ramsey on the final lap , but the 37 year-old Reid put the power down and pulled away to win for the second successive year . |
| 19 | I decided not to vote for the first time in 37 years because of the EC . |
| 20 | Putting the thoughts out of his head , he settled back to wait for the next people who could keep the Americans busy . |
| 21 | The Cabinet briefly discussed and rejected a dissolution and election on the issue and decided instead to try for a decisive election victory within three years . |
| 22 | High red serpents swayed up to hang for a lingering minute and fade ; busy green heads with white tails thrashed hither and thither and then dived to death . |
| 23 | Needless to say , this attitude did not make for a good marriage . |
| 24 | Their success at the game did not make for an easy relationship , though . |
| 25 | The Judaism of the Pharisees and Scribes did not care for the lost . |
| 26 | She did not care for the serious young men who toured the Home Office and the Treasury with her . |
| 27 | Tyroglyphus , harmless to the vine but a deadly enemy of Phylloxera vastatrix , was imported in 1873 in an attempt to kill off the pest ; unfortunately , however , unlike phylloxera , Tyroglyphus did not care for the European climate and failed to settle . |
| 28 | Most of them did not control for a possible confounding effect of H pylori infection . |
| 29 | From the 19 patients with reflux oesophagitis , one subject did not arrive for the second measurement and dropped out . |
| 30 | La Carlotta did not sing for the first hour . |