Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] [vb pp] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not a single one of my colleagues doubted for a moment what she said . |
| 2 | Existing users can have their products upgraded for a cost expected to be some £500 per site ; new users can buy products from the wide-ranging series at between £900 and £50,000 . |
| 3 | All these preparations for living off the land were unnecessary , for between them they knew of a network of wealthy houses , stretching from St Tropez to Mykonos , where bedrooms with a bath en suite , swimming-pools and occasional servants in white gloves would be put at their disposal by parents only too grateful to discover that their daughters had not , as yet , been violated by a lorry-driver or their sons arrested for the importation of stuff . |
| 4 | In Alaska I have seen seaplanes landed on tarmac in winter 's first snow to have their skis fitted for the rest of the season . |
| 5 | The winners and their parents were going to have their pictures taken for the newspaper . |
| 6 | Their eyes met for a moment , then he looked away . |
| 7 | As he came through the hut again , the man was there , about to sign out , and their eyes met for a moment , and Cormack felt scared . |
| 8 | Their eyes met for a split second , bleak green against ice-blue , and in that fleeting moment she wanted to tell him the truth , she wanted to explain , repaint the picture that had been mistakenly built up . |
| 9 | Their eyes met for a moment and Guido smiled back at her , flooding her heart with foolish pleasure . |
| 10 | Their eyes met for the space of a long heartbeat , and despite the clean white bandage round the man 's forehead and the strip of plaster on one bruised cheek , Grant felt a surge of rage at the thought that he was face to face with the brutal oriental who had hurt Pam . |
| 11 | Their eyes met for an instant . |
| 12 | Their eyes clashed for a moment , then Leonora shrugged . |
| 13 | Their eyes held for a long time and then he rested back on his elbows and looked at the treetops , his face suddenly serious . |
| 14 | Their eyes held for a moment and a slow smile began to grow on the darkly handsome face . |
| 15 | Her eyes closed for a brief second as she drew all her inner strength together to steady her voice . |
| 16 | Flipping lazily on to her back , she floated with her eyes closed for a moment , frowning as the sound of a door closing echoed around the pool . |
| 17 | Limping , sniffing , aware that the rain could have ruined her best velvet skirt , she stumbled along , her eyes peeled for a phone box . |
| 18 | The house of the Fleece was fast shuttered by then , the wicket in the yard door closed but not barred ; and Julian was waiting in the doorway of the undercroft , her ears pricked for every footfall that passed along the alley . |
| 19 | She would stay there until Marion and her attendants left for the evening meal in the hall , then come out of her corner , stretch to ease the cramp in her legs , and check the baby again before slipping away out . |
| 20 | In 1980 Irish constituencies had their boundaries and the number of their seats reviewed for the first lime by independent Constituency Commissioners . |
| 21 | Originally de Gaulle hoped to sever important economic and strategic areas from Germany : the Ruhr industrial basin would become an international asset , its resources tapped for the benefit of all mankind ; the coal-rich Saarland would be in economic union with France ; the Rhineland would be under permanent military occupation . |
| 22 | The air between Hrun and Liessa crackled with small explosions of charisma as their gazes sought for a hold . |
| 23 | Their gazes locked for a second and then Flemyng followed his wife up the road towards their disfigured house among the birch trees . |
| 24 | The BAAB will encourage all its athletes selected for the Olympic Games to use the Vauxhall Invitation and it is expected that top Americans , already in Europe for the Grand Prix meets in Lausanne on July 8 , Crystal Palace ( July 10 ) and Nice ( July 12 ) , will also head for the North-East . |
| 25 | Its leaders called for a postponement of the multiparty elections scheduled for Feb. 10 , 1991 , on the grounds that they would not have sufficient time to organize a campaign , but this demand was immediately rejected by the government . |
| 26 | Figure 7.31 shows this mechanism now assembled as a four-bar chain , with its linkages re-established for a number of set angular positions of the first linkage . |
| 27 | They showed , from time to time , a faint suspicious desire to force her to provide her non-existent credentials , but every time , just as their forces gathered for the attack , she would produce out of her hat some new and dazzling boyfriend , all ready to pay tribute to her elusive powers . |
| 28 | Gilbey , then 21 , became a member of her social circle and many of their friends assumed for a while that they were a couple . |
| 29 | The striking feature of the activities at which children worked for a high proportion of the time was involvement with other people ; conversely , most of the activities at which children worked for the lowest proportion of time writing , reading , drawing/painting — involved no other people and could have been carried out most effectively in isolation . |
| 30 | The striking feature of the activities at which children worked for a high proportion of the time was involvement with other people ; conversely , most of the activities at which children worked for the lowest proportion of time writing , reading , drawing/painting — involved no other people and could have been carried out most effectively in isolation . |