Example sentences of "[vb past] for [art] [noun sg] and [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The offer coincided with a move to separate the Cheltenham Schools of Architecture and Art , with which he disagreed , so he applied for the post and succeeded despite his now apparent and debilitating illness . |
| 2 | The present owners of Pool Bank were previously the tenants , and during their tenancy they cared for the gallery and strengthened it , and now as owners will watch over it with loving care . |
| 3 | His eyelids fluttered for a second and stayed shut until they reached the ground floor . |
| 4 | Northampton asked for no quarter and gave none . |
| 5 | She asked for the secretary and launched on a long story about phoning from a restaurant where a pair of leather gloves had been found apparently left by the lady with Mr Johnston whom one of the waiters had remembered seeing at the sports club . |
| 6 | Quietly he asked for the Standard and handed across his money between the jutting arms ; he did n't want any trouble . |
| 7 | Burton asked for an audition and did one despite being told that all the parts were taken . |
| 8 | The old woman lay in her hammock , sleeping ; it was a time when she had taken a heavy dose , and he was able to lead Ariel out and let her walk before him , now and then turning to make sure he was not about to do something to her , put a halter on her or hit her , and she made for the fence and pointed over it and asked him with her hands and eyes if she could go there , beyond the stockade , into the receding forest , where the bromeliads pushed out their stiff blades , and the monkeys nibbled at mango fruits and threw them down when they were unripe with tiny rows of toothmarks like some sharp-fanged fairy child 's , where the birds of many colours screeched . |
| 9 | He was at his most sincere when he argued for the South and defended it ferociously against the feebleness of Yankee and British snobberies and prejudice . |
| 10 | I stopped for a second and tried to think what my conclusive proof was . |
| 11 | She stopped for a minute and looked out at the fields . |
| 12 | He stopped for a moment and gazed about him . |
| 13 | She stopped for a moment and took a deep breath before checking the next crate . |
| 14 | The flat Polish landscape stretched away into the marshes to the south-east , and I stopped for a moment and stared towards them . |
| 15 | He stopped for a moment and looked around for Zach . |
| 16 | At the door he stopped for a moment and looked back , but then he turned and went out without another word . |
| 17 | She stopped for a moment and eyed Sophie thoughtfully . |
| 18 | How dare you patronize me , how dare you flaunt yourself at me when you know — ’ he stopped for a moment and shook his head . |
| 19 | She stopped for a breath and took a step nearer her mother . |
| 20 | The following day , the visitors headed for the field and toured LASMO 's Santiago field gathering and pumping facility . |
| 21 | ‘ I freelanced for a while and ended up doing a lot of work for the Bee Gees in Florida , for Andy Gibb in particular . |
| 22 | Rather than mount from the ground , which can take some young horses by surprise just when you do n't want to , I opted for a leg-up and repeated the walk , trot and half transitions . |
| 23 | Dexter yearned for a cigarette and squeezed his ballpoint tighter to quieten the urge . |
| 24 | Leeming signalled for the pad and took it from Duncan . |
| 25 | They came for a draw and got it . |
| 26 | Well he he 'd got a , and if I 'd got to do it you know , another day , his er perhaps start and er i , well you know when he came for a meal and saw all that ? |
| 27 | Patsy 's brother Dennis also played for the club and did not appreciate the secretary 's habitual greeting : ‘ with me bleedin ’ ribs pokin ’ out of me skin , breakin ’ me neck to get at that six and eight ’ ( the initial sum dispensed by the Secretary ) , Dennis Hendren had not wintered well ’ and did not believe Middlesex looked after its players out of season . |
| 28 | At the top of the stairs I turned for a moment and found out . |
| 29 | The hotel opened for the winter and closed for the summer . |
| 30 | Mr Waterworth worked for an agency and had been driving for the Fewston Transport Company , of Skipton , at the time of the tragedy . |