Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] for [art] [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ten blocks from here Judith was about some early evening occupation : bathing , perhaps , or dressing for an evening on the town . |
| 2 | 25–9–1897 The Session had under consideration the subject of having a half yearly Communion and arranged for a service on 7th November . |
| 3 | When at last my number came , I presented myself at the window and asked for a ticket on the 10.05 to Stockholm the next morning . |
| 4 | Cheeky Paula produced a sprig of mistletoe and asked for a peck on Channel 4 's Big Breakfast Show . |
| 5 | Indenbaum remembered that he was gentle , with a beatific smile , and asked for a tune on the harmonium … |
| 6 | The painting of the Virgin blessing Christ before the Passion by Urbino was once popular with newly-wedded couples who knelt before it and asked for a blessing on their marriage . |
| 7 | We decided to halt the nonsense and stopped for a sandwich on a picturesque rocky outcrop that provided views east and west along the glen , and over to spectacular Knoydart . |
| 8 | She was panting , she realised , and hung for a moment on the newel post of the spiral stairs and waited for her heartbeat to calm down . |
| 9 | ‘ You 're in here , ’ Ven remarked , taking up her case and heading for the door on the left of the French windows — and as she followed him into a pleasant bedroom , ‘ With luck , by the time you 've unpacked , the waiter will be here with some tea . ’ |
| 10 | President Roh Tae Woo denounced the assault on Chung and called for a crackdown on student unrest . |
| 11 | When a business finds itself seriously short of cash it can often buy breathing time by approaching its creditors and asking for a moratorium on payments . |
| 12 | I accepted his just criticism in the manner of Shostakovich , and concentrated for a while on eating . |
| 13 | Leonora contemplated argument , abandoned it , and , without taking the hand , got up and started for the stairs on leaden feet , full of foreboding about the night ahead . |
| 14 | Then quietly I walked down the steps and felt for a seat on one of the wooden forms ; after being hissed at by several people I found one empty , next to an old woman . |
| 15 | They 're a mile from the nearest road and accessible only by foot , unless of course you 're one of the thousands of seabirds wheeling and jostling for a place on the rocky ledges . |
| 16 | Butler stubbed out his cigar in an ashtray and reached for a telephone on the table beside him . |
| 17 | ‘ Of course , ’ Kegan said and reached for the intercom on his desk . |
| 18 | I shimmied shivering to the bedsit , slotted another shilling in the gas fire and reached for the knob on the third drawer of the tallboy . |
| 19 | The eyebrow quirked further , but fitzAlan merely rose to his feet and reached for the pack on the floor beside the bed . |
| 20 | He came to the Kingsbrook bridge and paused for a moment on the parapet , listening to the soft suck and chatter of the stream . |
| 21 | Serious , and reluctant , she pushed his hand away , and waited for the kisses on the cheek allowed within the code . |
| 22 | He opened the front door and stood for a moment on the step looking at the glimmer of light touching the pale dome of the church and the glow of the city thrown up against the sky . |
| 23 | And if one moved like the wind in branches , the other 's motion was a tower falling , a frightening , uncoordinated progression in which he seemed to crash forward uncontrollably at each stride , jerking himself stiffly upright and swaying for a moment on his heels before the next toppling step . |
| 24 | More often Hanka Zborowska switched the lights off and they pretended to be out so that Modigliani would not come up and ask for an advance on the next day 's work . |