Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [pers pn] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From time to time Shelly Films held evening previews of certain feature films , either for clients , or to screen them for the local parent company . |
| 2 | Ho , master greybeard loon , ’ he was shouting to Kelly , ‘ come fill the cup , or stap me for a whey-faced knave . ’ |
| 3 | Having had the good fortune to fall in with Gabriel outside Cat 's Coffee Shop as she was on her way home , he had seized his chance and asked her for an early supper . |
| 4 | I 'd like if I may , to take this opportunity of paying tribute to the er helpful , cooperative attitude that the auditing practices board displayed in what were often long and very complex discussions and to thank them for the clear and helpful statement with which they shortly er plan to issue er to er accompany these order and to bring them into practical effect . |
| 5 | The corridors of the BBC are long and pea-green ( the 1984 setting of Orwell 's book , reputedly ) , and I followed a uniformed attendant through and round them for the obligatory ten miles before happening upon Studio B10 . |
| 6 | In particular , he suggests that the educational system has a marked effect on the production and reproduction of scientific knowledge , and criticizes it for the ahistorical way in which it teaches scientific problems , theories , experiments and proofs . |
| 7 | The point is that the inference which you give to it is that they 're not quite fit to be Governors , by comparison with others , and I 'd like to defend that because I can assure you that I have never ever nominated a Governor for a school who I have not thought would be advantageous to that Board of Governors to have as a member and that he will be he or she will be a contributor to that particular school , and I 've done it time and time and time again and indeed on occasions have had headmasters coming to me and thanking me for the particular person that I put in . |
| 8 | A furtive junior diplomat bowing and scraping his way out of the interview section of the Lefortovo , ogling the KGB man and thanking him for a fifteen-minute access to a prisoner for whom the key was now thrown far away . |
| 9 | For now , Therapy ? are at the start of their first proper American jaunt , glad to take a break from the pressures of Britain and their debut major label release , and swap them for the promotional chores of the States . |
| 10 | I pulled down my damp bloomers and changed them for a warm , dry pair that were hanging on the line over the fire . |
| 11 | She lashed the class with scorn and ridicule and punished them for the nasty thoughts in her own mind . |
| 12 | Gordon Macpherson 's Prosen , a long arch of sound , eerie music from distant mountains with the instruments imitating and overlapping in echo effect , taught the ear to listen and prepared us for a fresh hearing of Tchaikovsky 's Souvenir de Florence , ravishing but not cloying , spinning to a close in the exacting fugue which made the composer laugh when he first played it . |
| 13 | The Federal Assembly on May 2 voted in favour of abolishing the death penalty and replacing it for the relevant offences with life imprisonment . |
| 14 | and we 'll sort it out ourselves and what they do , if a customer says oh there 's a phone that 's broke , or it 's not working or something like that , they 'll say oh okay we 'll get in touch with the maintenance for you , you see , cos he 's making nowt out of it , if you say we dropped the phone and broke it , well we 'll send a and then they send an engin one of their blokes out with a replacement phone and charge him for a new one , once they say wants some re-programming doing , oh yeah were sending an engineer round and they get , the dealer then gets the money for it so all we get is the flack end of it you know so we , a service contract it 's priced because , low because you know you 're gon na make a bit on moves and changes |
| 15 | She would have liked to take the girl in her arms and hold her for a long time . |
| 16 | Put it in a box in your guitar case and save it for a rainy day . |
| 17 | A crowd of eager customers would be awaiting his arrival outside the shops and attack him for the particular colour , size or style of dress they had been waiting for . |
| 18 | Presumably , therefore , a House of Commons bent on pressing a Bill to extend the life of Parliament could do so by first abolishing the House of Lords under the Parliament Act procedure and then passing the Bill and presenting it for the Royal Assent . |
| 19 | So beautiful is this emotion that some scientists and poets regard it as the elixir of life and pursue it for no other reason . |
| 20 | Gollum was once a hobbit who came across the Ring by chance and keeps it for a long time . |
| 21 | Eventually we worked out where the line had been and followed it for a short way up to a demolished bridge . |
| 22 | In the end she had taken the brooch back to the shop and exchanged it for a plain silver cross on a chain . |
| 23 | The task of implementing this change of policy fell on Roger Brown , then editor in succession to Ralph Gee , who had been responsible for the printing of the paper for many years and edited it for a short period . |
| 24 | ‘ I feel I should write and thank you for the smooth transition and vast improvement to the standard of cleaning at our premises . |
| 25 | If you come across a taxi token , pick it up and use it for a free taxi ride to any part of the city . |
| 26 | of the population the £26.2 billion that they have had in tax cuts and use it for the national health service , pensioners , schools and all the social services . |
| 27 | Erm you can phone them up and ask them for a Yellow Pages listing and they and they 'll give at random a listing from the Yellow Pages in whatever area you ask for . |
| 28 | No , they wrote and ask you for the exact date of day I started getting ability allowance . |
| 29 | As he leapt to the attack again , he uttered a hoarse , nerve-shattering scream , the purpose of which was to startle his opponent momentarily and distract him for a fatal fraction of time . |
| 30 | On another occasion his reference to the duty of the Old Testament prophets to denounce God 's judgements to the King and Court was reported to James II , who sent for him and reproached him for the controversial bitterness with which he had spoken . |