Example sentences of "[vb past] for [art] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He qualified for the light-middleweight semi-finals by beating Norway 's Ole Klemetsen . |
| 2 | Cells were treated with chemicals for 30min at 37 °C or as stated and then incubated for the indicated times before isolation of total RNA . |
| 3 | He also printed the Middle English adaptation of the dialogue of St Catherine of Siena made for the Bridgettine sisters at Syon Abbey and known as The Orcherd of Syon . |
| 4 | Inspired by the arrival of The Beatles to play the guitar , he bought a cheap Harmony electric and a Kalamazoo amp and dabbled for a few years before joining a high school covers band , playing soul , rock and a good deal of Hendrix . |
| 5 | We stopped for a few hours in Aberdeen , long enough to allow Father to take us to see the house we had lived in until 1939 : Stranathro , at Muchalls , perched high on the cliffs by the road to Stonehaven . |
| 6 | When the rest of the crowd turned out at closing time and headed for the Floral Gardens with their carry-outs , Tich bedded down for the night in the public lavatory on the other side of the railway bridge . |
| 7 | We flew to San Diego on the West Coast where we hired a car and headed for the bright lights of Las Vegas . |
| 8 | RUNAWAY teenager Nicola Rogers told today why she headed for the bright lights of Blackpool after leaving her home 100 miles away four days ago . |
| 9 | He had greased himself in oil and he had cooked and broiled and yearned for the magic hours of noon and six when he could down a life-saving tumbler of gin and lime . |
| 10 | Most of the 1,500 crowd who came for the best objects on the last two days of the sale meanwhile , were just tourists , which made taking bids extremely difficult and fatiguing , Tajan said . |
| 11 | He played for a few seconds with the animal 's jewelled collar then turned his eyes on me . |
| 12 | She drove for a few minutes in silence , then she said , ‘ You know what I 'm going back to ? ’ |
| 13 | Lloyd George , Winston Churchill , F. E. Smith strove for the glittering prizes of politics . |
| 14 | They are acknowledged to have a specific connotation in architecture ; particular moments of contemporary Italian culture , though bearing a local label — that of the ‘ trans-avant-garde ’ ( transavanguardia ) , coined for the visual arts by Achille Bonita Oliva ( 1984 ) , or the philosophical notion of ‘ weak thought ’ ( pensiero debole ) , theorized in a series of books and essays by Gianni Vattimo , Pier Aldo Rovatti and their colleagues ( cf. |
| 15 | It rained for a few days after that shake of early March . |
| 16 | They 'd never amount to a fortune — not at a penny a hundred points — but at least they paid for a few packets of cigarettes . |
| 17 | There has been a lot of debate about the reasons for producing complicated patterns on the suture line ; what advantage would this have given the ammonoids over their nautiloid ancestors , that allowed for the explosive bursts of ammonoid evolution ? |
| 18 | They walked for a few minutes in silence . |
| 19 | She smiled , turned course and steered for the deeper waters near the edge of the reef . |
| 20 | After completing his studies at Glasgow University , Gavin worked for a few months at a salmon farm near Ft William , checking for virus infection . |
| 21 | Before going into the cosmetic business she was a teacher , and worked for the United Nations in Geneva . |
| 22 | Snow settled for a few hours in the Dundee area , causing traffic problems . |
| 23 | The rates ( precepts ) settled for the five parishes in 1796 , ranged from £157.16s. from St. Paul down to £11.7s. from St.John . |
| 24 | And there it teetered for a few seconds before finally toppling over and falling with a sharp tinkle on to the desk-top . |
| 25 | Ms Willbourne also called for the civil courts to be given new powers to exclude an abuser from the home instead of the child . |
| 26 | Once , owing to a printer 's understandable failure to decipher my proof corrections , a book of mine appeared with a recipe which called for the whisked whites of 123 eggs … no reader has ever written to me demanding an explanation of this recipe . ) |
| 27 | Georgina chatted for a few minutes about the qualities she considered desirable in a secretary ; she even asked Celia 's opinion . |
| 28 | On the telephone , I was greeted with a very friendly and hearty ‘ Well … well … well ! ’ and we chatted for a few minutes as if there had been no break in our contact . |
| 29 | The Collector sat on his heels by the edge of the pit and watched for a few minutes before continuing on his way . |
| 30 | His mind recalled the familiar ambience of his trade ; men moving like black shadows behind the glare of the arc-lights the police cars tidily parked ; the flap of the screens , desultory voices conferring as they watched for the first lights of his approaching car . |