Example sentences of "[vb past] [coord] [vb past] for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They entered and asked for a room for the night and a meal of cold meat and beer , which they ate in the bar . |
| 2 | BELOW : Guard , , society membership secretary is pictured with the carriages he designed and built for the railway . |
| 3 | She rose and stooped for the shell . |
| 4 | Without a word , Roberts rose and headed for the service hatch . |
| 5 | He stopped and thought for a moment . |
| 6 | When he realized that Adam was not one of his colleagues , he stopped and reached for the revolver in his belted holster . |
| 7 | he came and asked for the duster and the polish |
| 8 | As we set course down the first valley low stratus blocked our way , and since squeezing underneath received a thumbs-down from both pilot and passenger , we orbited and asked for an IFR clearance . |
| 9 | So do major prints by Sam Francis ( who lived and worked for a while in Japan ) . |
| 10 | Hampden fought and died for the sovereignty of Parliament . |
| 11 | He frowned and panicked for a moment . |
| 12 | Then , apparently deciding that this was a special day , he turned and made for the thicket . |
| 13 | He turned and made for the stern of the boat , and disappeared below . |
| 14 | He turned and headed for the door where he paused for a moment . |
| 15 | Carol looked angrily at him , turned and headed for the door . |
| 16 | A pulse of pressure from behind threw them against the factor , he turned and jumped for the door , beat on it , it opened abruptly , and he fell inside . |
| 17 | She turned and started for the door . |
| 18 | Then he turned and stood for a while gazing out at the Pacific . |
| 19 | Once — ’ the voice shook and hesitated for a moment ‘ — once it was a pair of pliers . |
| 20 | Carol sighed and reached for a tissue from the bedside table . |
| 21 | Kate sighed and reached for the wine . |
| 22 | As it was , I nodded and made for the door ; she looked the sort of woman who won protracted lawsuits . |
| 23 | Talbot nodded and reached for a phone . |
| 24 | Jack nodded and headed for the lift , followed by a determined Tina . |
| 25 | None of them looked back to see what happened but galloped for the interchange to the Central Line . |
| 26 | Three hours later , Becky returned and went for a lunchtime drink with Jamie to talk things over . |
| 27 | Somehow we escaped and made for the Wig and Dickle and suitable refreshments . |
| 28 | It is a creative process , not a past process and something which is just stored away and lost and kept for the future . |
| 29 | In Cambridge in the 1930s he ran a gallery of modern art with Julian Trevelyan , edited Shakespeare 's 1593 Quarto of Venus and Adonis , with Jacob Bronowski [ q.v. ] founded and wrote for the magazine Experiment , and designed sets and costumes for theatrical productions . |
| 30 | Since then he had declared himself busy whenever I rang and asked for a taxi to take me to the Turkman Gate . ) |