Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [verb] [adv] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lawyers , basically , are trained for and used to an adversary system — where they act either for the prosecution or plaintiff , or for the defence — and seem always to see things in terms of guilt or innocence . |
| 2 | Noguchi tried in vain to construct an earthwork sculpture at a Japanese-American internment camp where he lived voluntarily for a time during World War II . |
| 3 | There 's a sort of metal fence I can sit on , so I rest there for a bit and watch the ducks and that . |
| 4 | I Tried to get some cleaning help but all I was offered was a shopping service , so I paid privately for a helper . |
| 5 | ‘ At that time I tried to get some cleaning help , but all I was offered was a shopping service , so I paid privately for a helper . |
| 6 | Mrs Chalk was nowhere to be found , so she made straight for the medicine cupboard in the spacious Georgian-style kitchen with its enormous , old-fashioned white-painted cupboards and scrubbed-elm table , and located the painkillers , swallowing the dosage with water before setting about making the tea . |
| 7 | Wyatt 's subsequent work was primarily as a country-house architect and ‘ improver ’ , although he competed unsuccessfully for a number of major public commissions and in 1816 published a Prospectus of a Design for Various Improvements in the Metropolis , in which he made radical proposals for replanning the West End . |
| 8 | Well I was n't married but I used to go in there and I used to come home er say in Winter if I come home for a w week or two , I go in there , and sit by the fire and have a yard . |
| 9 | Neither of us spoke for a few moments , then she asked : ‘ Do you mind if I stay here for a little while ? ’ |
| 10 | Ignoring the suddenly bright gleam in his eyes , she bent and grabbed the hem of her shift , tearing the flimsy material easily until she had enough for a bandage . |
| 11 | The one search will serve if you act also for a mortgagee , in which case name the mortgagee rather than the buyer , because the priority given to the mortgagee extends to the buyer , but not vice versa . |
| 12 | Jim will walk with his arm round Anna 's waist , and they tend to vanish if you turn away for a moment . |
| 13 | If you go away for the weekend during the winter , leave the central heating on the minimum thermostat setting , with the programmer set to 24-hour operation and remove or prop open the loft hatch . |
| 14 | And later when I saw Paul , I said Paul if you go away for the weekend , if you tell me , I can put your milk in my fridge . |
| 15 | But if we wait patiently for a few picoseconds until the charges rearrange themselves there will be no further motion and the problem belongs to the realm of electrostatics . |
| 16 | Well , Christine takes him up there if they come here for the weekend . |
| 17 | Members held raffles and donated cash until they had enough for the Olympic bar . |
| 18 | I thought he looked like he worked hard for a living — which he did . |
| 19 | Anyone who drinks 2½ pints of beer or ½ bottle of wine and then drives a car is almost certainly breaking the law unless he waits patiently for the liver to reduce blood alcohol levels . |
| 20 | Because they provided explicitly for the sampling of a wide range of speaker types and speech styles , the data collection methods associated with Labov 's model allowed data to be analysed on all of these dimensions . |
| 21 | ‘ We feel we should fight Mr Butters and let him take on a white elephant while we play elsewhere for a year and maybe we can return to Belle Vue . ’ |
| 22 | They took him from his horse , and laid him tenderly on the ground ; Ranulf stood watch while they waited quietly for the man to die . |
| 23 | ‘ Dear Gutter of Stowey ! ’ he wrote at Bridgwater while he waited distractedly for the carrier . |
| 24 | Memories of the marathon " sew-in " before she left home for the International Youth Congress could not have failed to bring a smile to Eva 's lips , or those of her sisters , if they could have seen her stitching away patiently and efficiently on a hand-driven sewing machine . |
| 25 | just before you went upstairs for a bath |
| 26 | Do n't stop playing on me now when I get home for a cup of tea ! |
| 27 | And when I left home for the first time , it suddenly occurred to me that there was no reason why I should n't change it . |
| 28 | He was the person when you go away for a vacation , that you leave the key to your flat with , that you say ‘ would you water my geranium ’ . |
| 29 | He was the person , when you go away for a vacation , that you leave the key to your flat with , that you say would you water my geranium ; that is the historical sum of William Shakespeare , it 's the truth . |
| 30 | The novel life abroad made Frances disenchanted with Britain when she returned home for a spell : |