Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] for [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Green did not go to church every Sunday — sometimes he walked around the house and idled , or went for a walk in the hills ; but he notes his attendance at church , in Ambleside , Grasmere or Keswick and the preacher he has heard . |
| 2 | The tests show people with symptomless HIV did not benefit in terms of survival or spread of the disease , whether they took the drug immediately on diagnosis or waited for the onset of infection . |
| 3 | And if you found that you had entered the company of players , of actors , of those descended from strolling vagabonds and historically always noted and envied for the looseness of their morals , then all your Christmases came at once . |
| 4 | She said : ‘ God grant it ! ’ and clung for a moment to the great , warm , vital hand that could put heart into her even now . |
| 5 | Canon Wheeler allowed his eye to wander around the handsome room lit by the full , secure English sunlight and gazed for a moment through the window at the spire of Medewich 's beautiful Cathedral . |
| 6 | They reported that they knew of no matter involving her in any way and asked for a description of the white identification cards . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I went to window three and asked for a ticket to Stockholm the next morning . |
| 9 | He won second prize in the 1985 John Player Award , and his commission to paint the Prince of Wales came when Charles saw an exhibition of his work in Halifax last year and asked for a portrait for his private collection — a rare honour for any artist . |
| 10 | A traveller in Scotland went into a pub and asked for a pint of bitter . |
| 11 | Gabriel knocked at the second brother 's door and asked for a drink of milk . |
| 12 | Cheeky Paula produced a sprig of mistletoe and asked for a peck on Channel 4 's Big Breakfast Show . |
| 13 | Indenbaum remembered that he was gentle , with a beatific smile , and asked for a tune on the harmonium … |
| 14 | I tottered across to a cottage on the edge of the loch and asked for a pot of tea and a bite to eat . |
| 15 | Like the lady who came into the shop one day and asked for a bottle of ‘ blue ’ . |
| 16 | Lovernius was very pleased and asked for a bag of gold and threw it to the poet who ran beside his chariot . |
| 17 | They entered and asked for a room for the night and a meal of cold meat and beer , which they ate in the bar . |
| 18 | So Gabriel knocked at the door of his fine large house and asked for a cup of wine . |
| 19 | She was always there , and she would tell , as she had told so often before , the remarkable story of her Jimmy , who 'd been posted as dead last December and who , six months later , had simply walked into the house , bold as you please , and asked for a cup of tea . |
| 20 | Then he came back and asked for a cup of tea . |
| 21 | Margaret inspected it and asked for a number of prints to be made . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Christina walked behind the reception desk and asked for a copy of Mr Banville 's account . |
| 24 | I also found certain sections of the press grossly biased ; and when a representative of the Daily Express called at the New English Weekly office and asked for a copy of the relevant issue , I thought I might be involved in a libel action . |
| 25 | ‘ She told me that you phoned her and asked for a meeting in town . ’ |
| 26 | That evening I rang Fred Workman , News Editor of the Times-Herald , at his home and asked for a job as cub reporter . |
| 27 | A beautiful girl went into a sweet shop and asked for a box of chocolates . |
| 28 | She said that she 'd be happy with wine so he caught somebody 's eye and asked for a carafe of the house red . |
| 29 | Blanche turned her biro slowly round in her fingers , meditating on the patterns created by the octagonal tube of plastic , and asked for the name of the dry cleaner 's . |
| 30 | She expressed her wonder at this and asked for the name in Italian . |