Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If future league tables report disaggregated profiles for resources and costs for each study then the costs may be validated or recalculated for the decision maker 's own setting . |
| 2 | Bank current account loan or ordinary loan Cash loan usually for specific purpose ( like buying expensive durables or cars ) for people with bank accounts , usually without security ( unless it 's a large sum or borrowed for a long time ) ; usually fixed , regular payments over two or three ( occasionally up to seven ) years ; interest on what is owed fluctuates in line with but rather higher than bank base rate . |
| 3 | Anything he pioneered , created or evolved for the series , up to his resignation from the BBC in 1964 , was owned lock , stock and barrel by the Corporation . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | If insufficient force is maintained , or relaxed for a moment , the aircraft will try and turn which will produce a roll and in next to no time the aircraft is inverted and on its way down . |
| 6 | Other locals , not directly involved with the gangs , but basking in the glory and the protection bought rounds of drinks or waited for a chance to join in the conversation . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The authorities in Tripoli shift ed senior officers around from one post to another at relatively frequent intervals ; the officers themselves said that was not because the government was particularly concerned to create an impartial force ( such as a Gendarmerie or Guardia Civil ) , but because their loyalty was suspect : if they worked in their home areas , or stayed for a long spell of duty in one district , they might acquire a following of dissidents . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She said : ‘ God grant it ! ’ and clung for a moment to the great , warm , vital hand that could put heart into her even now . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He had an enjoyable job of work waiting for him , and asked for no more than that . |
| 13 | The winners , who both come from Manchester and asked for no publicity , scooped £1,338,825.45p each . |
| 14 | ‘ We have sent it back and asked for a translation . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I went to window three and asked for a ticket to Stockholm the next morning . |
| 17 | Nancarrow , on his third match point , at 9–9 , played another drop which was not that tight and Marshall , closing in to drive it deep , was obstructed and asked for a let . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Indenbaum remembered that he was gentle , with a beatific smile , and asked for a tune on the harmonium … |
| 20 | That evening I rang Fred Workman , News Editor of the Times-Herald , at his home and asked for a job as cub reporter . |
| 21 | I thought he was wandering off , but he went up to the counter and asked for a coffee . |
| 22 | Margaret inspected it and asked for a number of prints to be made . |
| 23 | Cheeky Paula produced a sprig of mistletoe and asked for a peck on Channel 4 's Big Breakfast Show . |
| 24 | A traveller in Scotland went into a pub and asked for a pint of bitter . |
| 25 | The just before Christmas a teenager came in with his friends and asked for a book ‘ honestly ’ listing all the mistakes in the Bible . |
| 26 | They reported that they knew of no matter involving her in any way and asked for a description of the white identification cards . |
| 27 | ‘ I saw Rosemary 's Baby , fell in love with Mia Farrow , went to the barber and asked for a Mia Farrow cut . |
| 28 | The book should have been in Tollemarche 's only bookstore for several weeks ; however , when Hank casually sauntered in and asked for a copy , old Mr Pascall said it had not arrived . |
| 29 | The following morning I rose early , dressed and asked for a driver to take me and my suitcase to the hospital . |
| 30 | Like the lady who came into the shop one day and asked for a bottle of ‘ blue ’ . |