Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , this morning Beth Christie was brighter than usual ; she planned to shop for the dinner party she was holding later in the week . |
| 2 | For example , if they failed to arrange for a minor repair in the science labs and a pupil was hurt as a result , they might be guilty of a safety offence . |
| 3 | She was heavily pregnant but she was questioned and made to wait for the next twelve hours without food or water . |
| 4 | They took the lead courtesy of Trevor Smith 's sixth goal of the season but were pegged back by an equaliser from Johnny Jameson who failed to appear for the second half . |
| 5 | Ledgered bread failed to catch for the first hour but a switch to three bronze maggot on a size 14 hook presented over the far side found chub to 2 lb 8 oz from peg one . |
| 6 | The new rules for taxing manufactured interest , payments made to compensate for the loss of interest , where for instance a security is ‘ sold cum interest ’ but acquired by the seller ex interest in order to meet the sale , took effect on 29 June 1992 and apply from 30 June 1992 . |
| 7 | The threshold time is therefore automatically raised or lowered to compensate for the reader being swept too slowly or too quickly . |
| 8 | Pearce said : ‘ We always planned to try for a drop goal whenever we were in the French 20 metre area . |
| 9 | Others had to put up with less ideal locations , and this led to demand for the feng shui practitioner , whose skill was in improving the landscape by correct siting , ensuring that nothing took place to disturb the flows of energy . |
| 10 | I got picked for the washing up detail and with six others swept the kitchen and dining room , drank the dregs from the glasses and bottles and had a conversation with one of the cooks about Beirut . |
| 11 | ALAIN Prost captured his sixth consecutive pole position of the Formula One season as he led qualifying for the Monaco Grand Prix today . |
| 12 | Prunskiene , who had resigned as Prime Minister on Jan. 8 , 1991 [ see p. 37944 ] , consistently denied the accusations ( made in April — see p. 38880 ) , claiming that a document bearing her signature in which she agreed to work for the KGB was a forgery and that the trial was politically motivated . |
| 13 | I literally stopped seeing for a very long time . |
| 14 | At a corner he stopped to wait for a break in the traffic . |
| 15 | Jessamy stopped drawing for a few moments . |
| 16 | The car 's hydraulics soughed as they tried to compensate for the sudden shift of the bubble but against that gale they were all but useless , and the bubble-canopy clanged on the car 's shell . |
| 17 | Thurso could not afford the £300 needed for the charter in 1876 when , hard on the heels of the Prince and Princess of Wales ' visit to ‘ The Exhibition ’ , the Town Council proposed applying for the honour . |
| 18 | I must have mentioned how expensive my activities were becoming , because Suzy suggested that I tried applying for a grant . |
| 19 | I tried to reach for the phone to ring Howard , but my arm refused to move . |
| 20 | He was sitting just a matter of inches away , when he moved to reach for a coffee-cup she caught the smell of freshly washed hair , and her fingers itched with the memory of tangling themselves in those jet-black waves . |
| 21 | er , the book has been very heavily attacked by contemporary writers even mentioned passing for the . |
| 22 | Union officer DEBORAH LEON , 32 , of Guisborough , Cleveland , perished heading for a month 's trekking holiday . |
| 23 | I tried to apply for a credit card , but they refused me . |
| 24 | ‘ If I tell anyone that we stopped to look for a ghost , they 'll laugh at me , and if I was you , I would n't tell your mates either . |
| 25 | Coming to Old Gang Smelting Mills we stopped to look for a while at the most complete collection of buildings still standing in the mining field , although comparing them now with photographs taken in the 1930s it 's obvious that they 're slowly falling apart . |
| 26 | I moved to look for the girl . |
| 27 | Even more amazing , Elsie , who had been getting in touch with her previously repudiated strengths , stopped complaining for the day . |
| 28 | Shlomo Green stopped speaking for a moment . |
| 29 | He stopped speaking for a moment , like a man walking who comes to a brink ; perhaps it was an artful pause , but it made the stars , the night , seem to wait , as if story , narration , history , lay imbricated in the nature of things ; and the cosmos was for the story , not the story for the cosmos . |
| 30 | They stopped speaking for a while , then Gerry offered to take the helm . |