Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] for [adj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I asked for half the fee in advance , and was given a wafer confirming the immediate transfer of the amount to my Fedbank . |
| 2 | Visuals are very important in terms of information recall I modelled for this a couple of years ago . |
| 3 | I speak for all the servants of the embassy in Paris . |
| 4 | I prayed for all the King 's Kids in their work places . |
| 5 | A few doors away I watched for half an hour through a film of sunlit flour motes as a small , soft mass of dough was miraculously spun and flung out to cover six-foot squares of sacking by two whirling , wizened old men . |
| 6 | Lunch was an avocado and prawn sandwich and a carton of mango juice , which I admit were a bit out of character but otherwise I looked for all the world like a real musher . |
| 7 | Precisely why he had been sent to Tonga — what special knowledge or circumstance — was never explained and , sitting as I did for many an evening on the veranda of the magnificent old Residency , watching the fireflies and listening to the surf booming on the reef , I was not too sorely tempted to enquire . |
| 8 | I sat for half an hour outside the dining room like a pickle in a jam factory . |
| 9 | Now could I ask for all the members to say the Mothers ' Union prayer , the nineteen seventy four one which you will find on page three . |
| 10 | I have ended the story with killing and bloodshed because I want to leave that picture before your eyes — a picture which stands for all the anguish and hardship and disappointment and dangers anyone going to Eretz must expect . |
| 11 | But even if the Verulamium defences were post-Hadrianic , it may not have been the same operation which provided for such an in-significant place as Great Casterton . |
| 12 | The election was conducted according to an electoral law agreed during the round table talks , which provided for half the 400 Grand National Assembly seats to be elected on a constituency basis and the remainder by proportional representation [ see p. 37380 ] . |
| 13 | A carved chair close by the altar , a small ancient-looking chest , and an ornately-carved table which looks for all the world like a chest on legs , may well be Jacobean . |
| 14 | Any model of the mind which allows for such a possibility is not a simple one , and hints at , if it does not actually affirm , the existence of the unconscious . |
| 15 | I am afraid that this war , which started for all the reasons I have mentioned , is turning gradually into a similar kind of war to the Lebanese . |
| 16 | Ms Cann accordingly drew up a second deal , which accounted for all the different royalties ( television , merchandising and so forth ) separately . |
| 17 | Any material which runs for half a minute or so is worth considering , and you can stretch these times to any length by repeat-recording them nose-to-tail for as many times as needed to make up the required length . |
| 18 | He took us to the Þingvellir National park where the clouds parted and the sun shone on square kilometres of snow that was so clean and pure it made me weep for all the time we had lost on the trip , and for the pleasure of being where I wanted to be . |
| 19 | Nothing happened for half an hour so I asked where the nearest Young Women 's Christian Association hostel was . |
| 20 | Payment is at the discretion of your Manager who will tell you whether or not you qualify for such a payment . |
| 21 | Sometimes you long for half an hours |
| 22 | Having done so , he committed them into the care of Him who cares for all the needy , and knelt to his prayers . |
| 23 | You danced for all the Daddies |
| 24 | In a fit of temper she arranged for all the surrounding elms to catch Dutch Elm Disease and quickly died . |
| 25 | Well there was a big reunion er you know for all the m all the soldiers all the sold came back out of the war . |
| 26 | Throughout the academic year she campaigned for such an appointment to be made until the local authority provided additional money for this post to be advertised . |
| 27 | Most recently , the Cadbury Committee said that it was not persuaded by those who called for such a limitation . |
| 28 | When Sweetheart fixed her hair and make-up a certain way and dressed up in the clothes she made on her treadle sewing machine , she looked for all the world like Jane Russell come to life from the big screen . |
| 29 | His sister " face was pinched , her eyes large and dark against the paleness of her skin , and she looked for all the world like some sort of trapped animal . |
| 30 | She felt for all the world as if she 'd had a hangover — an event that had happened exactly once in her well-ordered life . |