Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [pron] [noun sg] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anne tried to hide her eagerness for the idea . |
| 2 | A sadness seemed to cross his face for a second but Constance was barely conscious of it . |
| 3 | Unfortunately I dived in one day without realising that the pool had been emptied ( I am short-sighted ) , and although my head turned out to be harder than the pool bottom , it seemed to dampen my enthusiasm for the sport . |
| 4 | This favourite phrase of hers , meaning uninformed opinion , seemed to underline her contempt for the situation in which I had placed myself : the young , married woman , abdicating intellectual effort , doing nothing but washing and cleaning and caring for her baby . |
| 5 | ‘ Mr McQuaid 's room is ready , ’ Maggie said as they prepared to take their leave for the night . |
| 6 | He condemned the " junta " in Tbilisi and vowed to continue his struggle for the restoration of " lawful authority " in Georgia . |
| 7 | Armed with papers , his head filled with lists of stockholdings , production figures , statistics of pre- and post-war profits and losses , with preliminary architectural plans for the restoration , first , of the three houses in France , and ideas for those property holdings abroad , Edouard arranged to meet his brother for a week-long series of discussions . |
| 8 | I recently heard Alan Bennett talking about the humour in his plays and he said that he began to develop his ear for the ridiculous simply by listening to members of his family . |
| 9 | Lord Sempill could not afford the time , and flew home , so Fred Crocombe decided to take his place for the rest of the flight , with Wood as the sole pilot . |
| 10 | He decided to ask his bank for a £5,000 overdraft facility . |
| 11 | WE started to rehearse our routine for the show . |
| 12 | I drove out of Newtown and went to begin my search for the mysterious man on the moor . |
| 13 | I failed to get my case for a share of his property and savings heard because I was told the courts do n't recognise a common-law wife . |
| 14 | Ekoku failed to stake his claim for a place against the Dutch . |
| 15 | A landowner who neglected to cultivate his land for an inordinate period of time might lose his right to retain his property and his neighbours might acquire the right to purchase and cultivate it . |
| 16 | The Development Office set about the business of fundraising and , in November , we were delighted to receive news that The Robertson Trust wished to increase its support for the extension , leaving the University with a fraction of the bill to pay . |
| 17 | In the first round voters had to indicate their preference for an individual candidate and for a party list . |
| 18 | Political groupings in Slovakia continued to state their preference for a formal state treaty ( rather than a political declaration as embodied in the drafts ) , as the draft constitution was put out for consultation and amendment . |
| 19 | Consequently , our lads , whenever they wished to express their contempt for the French , would show them two fingers . |
| 20 | Accordingly , the haulier had to endorse his receipt for the electronic goods ‘ items under order number 7532 missing ’ . |
| 21 | You still had to ask your Dad for a top off the egg if you were if you were a poor family . |
| 22 | The lawyers , working away in their legal centre in Kirkwall , continued to prepare their case for the Proof Hearing , which was due to open in Kirkwall on 3 April . |
| 23 | The final period of the Kettering scheme came when in 1938 the Cassell Trustees agreed to renew their grant for a further two years on a reducing scale with a concluding sum of £50 in 1940 to extinguish their support . |
| 24 | ‘ His US lawyer contacted ours and said he wanted to swop our daughter for a guarantee that he would n't be arrested ! |
| 25 | But he wanted to save their publication for the book he was always going to write and which was to follow ‘ line for line ’ the artistic development of his friend during those decisive years . |
| 26 | A person who distributes inflammatory material to equable recipients can argue with some plausibility that he intended to display his contempt for the views of the recipient , or was seeking to indicate in forcefully graphic terms that he held a different point of view from the one espoused by his audience . |