Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [verb] for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The threshold time is therefore automatically raised or lowered to compensate for the reader being swept too slowly or too quickly . |
| 2 | The working-class wives of early eighteenth-century London earned from charring , laundry , nursing , making and mending clothes , hawking , silk-winding and in the catering and victualling services : The great majority of women were unable to work in male trades and , since nearly three quarters of women wanted to or had to work for a living , they necessarily competed intensely for the work which was left , much of it of a casual nature and none of it organised by gilds and livery companies . |
| 3 | The Company 's hint was taken , and on 6th July the Charity Commissioners approved the new Board , which met for the first time twelve days later and agreed to advertise for a Headmaster who — after all the fuss and contrary to what may have been expected — was required to be an Anglican clergyman ! |
| 4 | At times he would claim that his father had been lashed in front of the town and put in the stocks for poaching a salmon , and told to pray for the soul of Lord I — whose goodness had saved him from the hanging he deserved . |
| 5 | Then three years ago , she lost her hearing and seemed destined for a life of isolation before she underwent the operation . |
| 6 | Then he frowned and seemed to consider for a moment . |
| 7 | The opposition Bulgarian Socialist Party denounced the name change and vowed to fight for the right to continue to use its name . |
| 8 | Antony grinned in resignation at Connon and began searching for the tablecloth . |
| 9 | Then he took out a book from his desk and began to search for a name . |
| 10 | She reached into the Mini and lifted out her bag and began to rummage for a pen and paper . |
| 11 | At last , I picked up the directory and began to look for the telephone number of a solicitor . |
| 12 | The King left the kitchen and began to look for the food . |
| 13 | The library arts college student is definitely scheduled for supervised reading periods and permitted to ask for a class meeting whenever he feels his readings have failed to answer questions . |
| 14 | Ever since I gave up my job and started waiting for the film to happen , I too have felt like a gap in between things . |
| 15 | At about 10,000ft ( 3300m ) we broke out of the trees into an area of grassland that looked vaguely like a Scottish moor and decided to camp for the night . |
| 16 | The executive of the 1922 Committee met at the home of its chairman , Edward du Cann , on October 14 , and decided to press for a leadership election . |
| 17 | Preston drained his glass and decided to go for the bottle in the next interlude . |
| 18 | We consider what old fishing boats , and even vessels that were not specially made for fishing , can be adapted and sent to fish for a year or two . |
| 19 | Lady Selvedge and Mrs Grandison arrived at Victoria Station on the day of the bazaar shortly after noon , and proceeded to look for a place where they might have lunch , or luncheon , as they called it . |
| 20 | They left the hospital and went to wait for the bus . |
| 21 | He brought in colleague Brian McGowan as his partner and went looking for an acquisition vehicle . |
| 22 | The stricken suitor followed the tradition laid down in these matters and went to look for a fight . |
| 23 | He switched off the little girl on Terry Wogan and went to look for the Sturgeon . |
| 24 | But each could and did act for the other when necessary ; and English diplomats abroad frequently corresponded with both . |
| 25 | Mr. Lennis sent for me and said that Mr. Andrew was feeling run down , and had gone for a cruise in one of the ships , the Emily T. I kept expecting a letter or a postcard from him , but nothing came . |
| 26 | John Mumford had been a curate in the Church of England with a significant ministry and had gone for a year 's sabbatical to California . |
| 27 | Styling himself ‘ Dr. Isaac Titford ’ , he had been commissioned surgeon ( not by any means so prestigious a profession then as now ) in the first battalion , Sixtieth Royal American Regiment , and had lived for a while in Virginia ; he was also giving his enterprising spirit full reign out there in the West Indies , fathering the odd quadroon or two , dabbling in the slave trade , a postmaster at Spanish Town , a partner in a firm of druggists in Kingston and the owner of a coffee and pimento plantation . |
| 28 | He had thrown aside his own robe then , and had stood for a moment looking down at her , the firelight playing over his body , and Grainne had felt her senses tumble , for surely , oh surely there had never been anything so beautiful and so strong … |
| 29 | Saúl Ubaldini , secretary-general of the CGT and leader of the Azopardo wing , had opposed the austerity policies of President Carlos Saúl Menem , and had stood for the Congress in September 1991 but was heavily defeated [ see p. 38434 ] . |
| 30 | He had gone then to the Syrian Embassy and had applied for a visa for himself , for his English-born wife , for his two daughters . |