Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [verb] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when you that lay down you can look at whoever what the other players have got face up and you either go for a player or you go for the maximum points . |
| 2 | and we either go with the word report or we look for an alternative word or words . |
| 3 | Then it began to rain hard and I sheltered for a long time in a barn , but I could n't stay there all night so I just walked and got thoroughly soaked . |
| 4 | My mother volunteered to look after the luggage while my father and I went for a short walk . |
| 5 | It was about how to deal with a road accident and I arranged for a smashed-up car to be towed into the studio , and for actors to sprawl around , made-up to look as if they had appalling injuries . |
| 6 | and I competed for the Quain Essay prize — a sum of 50 — to be written on the survival of the medieval conception of tragedy in post-medieval literature . |
| 7 | And I knew for a little while that would be true . |
| 8 | Upstream , through the gorge known as the Wachau , runs one of the prettiest stretches of the river and I sat for a pleasant hour on its embankment watching the swallows skim its waters . |
| 9 | And I think for the dyslexic child , for the disturbed child generally , we need to offer an atmosphere which is calm . |
| 10 | where R represents the number of correct responses for the right ear/visual field and I stands for the left ear/visual field . |
| 11 | You aim for a reasonable provision of jobs , bearing in mind the job requirement , er within that settlement , and you aim for an appropriate range of social , recreation , and education uses , erm er within the village , so that on the basis of our proposal , as we say in N Y five , you will expect to have a primary school . |
| 12 | His lips twisted and she waited for the inevitable cynical response , but surprisingly it did n't come . |
| 13 | Rosemary had been to Venice and seen the original bridge , and she enthused for a long time on the beauties of that city and how much she would like to go there again after the war was over . |
| 14 | For instance , when Paris designated the wanton APHRODITE as the most beautiful of the goddesses , Hera 's morals were affronted and she arranged for the Trojan Wars to occur as just recrimination for the slight . |
| 15 | He said that on her birthday he asked her what she had learnt from life , and she thought for a long time , and then said : ‘ That people are morally the same , and intellectually different . ’ |
| 16 | The balls and parties given by the Franklins did little to buoy up her spirits , being , as she described herself , ‘ such a shy , reserved being ’ , and she longed for the quiet , regular family life of home . |
| 17 | It sounds like the Velvet Underground mixed with … ’ — and she searches for the appropriate ingredient — ‘ … with Nico . ’ |
| 18 | The colonel gave me a friendly pat on the shoulder , and we made for the outside world again . |
| 19 | And we asked for an extra ten days . |
| 20 | They regard it as significant that the eighth and ninth century saw an increasing volume of exchanges not initiated by the state , but " privately-generated " ; and they look for the new wealth-creators among lords and peasants , finding in rural markets crucial mechanisms of exchange . |
| 21 | so , erm , they rang and they rang , and they rang for a good twenty to twenty five minutes and we just erm , we , we all huddled together in the living room , and erm , anyway about half an hour went past , and then they finally went , we saw them , we live in a flat , and we saw them from the window , we saw them going back to the station you see . |
| 22 | He said it was the government 's intention to privatize 30-40 per cent of state assets and he asked for a six-month moratorium on trade union pay demands . |
| 23 | And he sat for a long time in a melancholy reverie as the ants continued to drift down , thinking of the futility of all endeavour . |
| 24 | According to C.-in-C. of CIS Armed Forces Marshal Yevgeny Shaposhnikov , it now remained for Ukraine to recognize Russia 's jurisdiction over nuclear weapons located on its territory , and he called for a Russian-Ukrainian summit to discuss the issue . |
| 25 | Eric Stephen said he thought that a of method getting people into the scheme was ‘ off the rails ’ and he called for a large input of help and direction while Andrew Macfarlane said that unless the end user guaranteed a premium farming leaders could ‘ forget FASL ’ . |
| 26 | Creed had requisitioned an open car , and he stood for the entire procession , as a mark of his own personal respect for the deceased . |
| 27 | And it asked for the Scottish Office Guidelines , and those in Lord Justice Butler-Sloss 's Cleveland Report , to be made law . |
| 28 | Tony Dobson put Portsmouth ahead early on and it looked for a long time as though that was going to be the only goal of the game . |
| 29 | But overall , the report says more information 's needed and it calls for a careful record to be kept of all future suicides and attempts . |
| 30 | It draws people who come for a fun day out and it provides for the serious ornithologist . |