Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [art] [adj] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In one act at the exhibition hangar gave NAM ‘ back ’ its workshop , enabling the restoration of Anson C.19 VL348 to come on apace ; it allowed several of their exhibits the luxury of a controlled environment ; gave the Museum an ‘ all weather ’ visitor capability and made them a suitable location for the RAF Museum to loan them their Airspeed Oxford and North American Harvard — see the August issue . |
| 2 | Promised me a free ticket for the opening . |
| 3 | The father found him a ready substitute for his own dead infant son , Philip , and often called the young writer ‘ Phil ’ . |
| 4 | Most respondents found it a useful medium for aiding some cosmetic task or other . |
| 5 | Eventually , John summoned up courage to ask permission to use different music : Ravel 's two-handed piano concerto in G. Presumably he was happier working with that , but few people found it an apt choice for the subject of the ballet , about a witch who destroys her lover . |
| 6 | No 4472's insurance certificate granted her a 10-year ticket for her boiler ( ratified with an MOT style test every six months ) but only seven years of that covers main line running . |
| 7 | Mechanics pushed our aircraft into a hangar and machined us a new stud for our exhaust pipe . |
| 8 | A museum paid him a four-figure sum for it . |
| 9 | In March this year the film industry in the USA awarded him a special Oscar for his outstanding contribution to world cinema . |
| 10 | The maverick maestro , who prefers life in scruffy clothes , was lent the gold-trimmed gown by Bath University when it awarded him an honorary degree for musical ability in June last year . |
| 11 | The Americans went nuts over it and awarded it the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film . |
| 12 | In the Far East , the Indonesian government awarded us a major contract for the design of a fuel transfer and storage system for their research centre near Jakata . |
| 13 | He called it a disgraceful situation for a man in a position of trust . |
| 14 | The city 's site on the Isthmus made her a natural centre for trade , and the aryballos seems to have been created to meet a new need : to bottle scented oils , imported from the East , for re-export east and west . |
| 15 | ‘ Because the prosecution would notice that hiding Barbara Coleman made him a prime suspect for the murder of her friend . |
| 16 | His confidence that God 's existence could be demonstrated from the natural world made him a favourite target for those who felt it could only be on the basis of God 's special revelation of Himself that faith could be justified . |
| 17 | It was the verbal savagery of his pre-war outbursts in the streets of Shoreditch and Pimlico that made him a public danger for the only time in his life . |
| 18 | If Philiphaugh was a mark in Craigbarnet 's favour with the Montrose interest , and his ancestor 's service with the Great Marquis deserved reward , his own participation in the 1715 Rising and his continuing Jacobitism made him an undesirable ally for a Whig politician like Montrose . |
| 19 | It was his success in this role which made him an obvious choice for prime minister , an essentially ‘ managerial ’ post . |
| 20 | His increasing climbing experience plus his renowned strength and stamina made him an obvious choice for the first New Zealand expedition to the Himalaya in 1951 . |
| 21 | In short , they became friends , and as time passed Diana thought her a good match for her errant brother-in-law . |
| 22 | If he failed to pay one instalment , he was fined a halfpenny for every shilling , which became a penny after the second omission when the loan society secretary sent him a circular letter for which a fee of threepence was exacted . |
| 23 | My enterprising publishers , the same Little , Brown , thought it a good idea for me to present copies to Roman Catholic opinion makers . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's lovely , ’ Carrie said , though she thought it a strange dress for someone to wear in the daytime . |
| 25 | The church historian Norman Sykes thought it a bad choice for the see , too party a man for a see which needed breadth of mind . |
| 26 | Looking back later , Helen recalled three things about this new life , so different from the unhappy days when she and Edward discovered that his passionate letters to her were being read by Mrs Andrews : ‘ The beauty of it delighted me , and I thought it the perfect setting for these people with their freedom of manner and thought … . |
| 27 | The Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 made it a legal requirement for Police Authorities to maintain consultative arrangements on behalf of the local community . |
| 28 | There was also substantial cross-group agreement on the selection of this feature , with most groups arguing that the 'summarising " nature of this sentence made it a strong candidate for an opening to the story . |
| 29 | The fact that a scheme could be contrived that made it a working possibility for the majority of the disabled to acquire a motor car of their choice and to finance the purchase , including insurance and repair , from the allowance , was a staggering revelation to economists and particularly to the socialists of the time who regarded private enterprise as the kiss of death . |
| 30 | Celtic pressed forward — and Collins made it a memorable night for them when he shot the third goal eleven minutes from time . |