Example sentences of "[adv] [noun] [vb past] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So Malcolm sprang for the script . |
| 2 | At eleven o'clock Tony went for a drink , but the bottle was empty . |
| 3 | His dogs looked as if they might be dangerous and so Coetzee reached for a tried and tested method for solving the problem — strychnine . |
| 4 | Hitherto Switzerland accounted for a third of all hazardous waste imported into Britain . |
| 5 | Normally Rachel slept for a few hours after the feed and Carrie had made sure her husband knew what to do should the baby wake up before she got home . |
| 6 | Whenever Robinson struck for a grip he moved quickly and broke it , never allowing the older man to settle . |
| 7 | Frantically Brown scrabbled for the phone that would connect his with his Special Agent in Kensington . |
| 8 | Stephen and Tony were both in reserved occupations but Joe and Terry were called up into the Irish Guards and sent to Caterham Barracks and a week later Eileen left for the WAAFs . |
| 9 | Now Houghton reached for the first file and took out the piece of card that bore the fingerprints of a possible match . |
| 10 | Periodically Moreau translated for the benefit of his countrymen , who thereupon continued to behave in the manner of stage Frenchmen , with much shrugging and stifled Gallic oaths . |
| 11 | They came to a simple fence which was crossed by a stile , and here Alina rested for a couple of minutes before going on . |
| 12 | Even Hepworth shifted for a while into distribution after losing a regular order from the US for up to 40 copies of every film he made . |
| 13 | Even O'Connor testified for the defence , claiming that he had no idea who had ordered the attack upon him . |
| 14 | The respect in which the Headmaster of our second school is held again contrasts with the contempt and even hatred felt for the man who headed our first — the man who did n't know their names . |
| 15 | Then Swindon asked for a million pounds , Chelsea offered nothing , and Hoddle was valued at a maximum of 175 thousand pounds . |
| 16 | Initially Mitterrand pressed for a rejection of the Senate 's amendments on the grounds that they amounted to an attempt to elevate the powers of the indirectly elected Senate to those of the directly elected National Assembly . |
| 17 | And there Anne stood for the rest of the day , a lonely little girl with a small white angry face . |
| 18 | It was called Frag , and it would be giving off enough psychochemical fragrance into their nostrils to keep there minds dislocated for a week . |
| 19 | I take a hotel on the rue Larbi Ben M'Hidi , formerly the rue d'Arzew where Camus lived for a while , a street of arcades and white buildings with yellow ornamentation . |
| 20 | Some of the guilds were quite large , especially in the greater towns and cities , and wealthy enough to have not only their own chantry priest but also their own altars within the church , and there were even instances when funds allowed for the building of an additional aisle as a guild chapel . |
| 21 | He was the first to see the amusing side when golfers asked for a caddie — ‘ Your Worship ’ and mused that both his roles were ones of service . |
| 22 | The drama unfolded at 7am when officers gathered for an operation briefing at Stanley Road police station , Kirkdale . |
| 23 | But McHale was a distant third last year when Fisher won for the third time , a sign of the troubles the three-times Tarmac champion was having with his ex-Carlos Sainz Toyota Celica . |
| 24 | By 1966 when Reagan ran for the governorship of California , he was not simply a novice with little to offer except an agreeable manner and celebrity status ; he was rather a widely experienced and articulate political animal with many of the attributes necessary for success in American politics in the late twentieth century . |
| 25 | JTR travelled on to Bute on the Iona and thence through the Kyles of Bute to Ardrishaig on Loch Fyne where passengers transhipped for the continuing boat journey through the Crinan Canal to the open seas and islands of the West Coast of Argyll . |
| 26 | Athelstan was always surprised at-the effect he caused ; here he was in a place where man died for the price of a few coins , but at the sight of the lighted wax candle , the sound of the small tinkling bell and him swathed in a cope , the coarsest men and women stood aside as if they acknowledged the great mysteries he carried. , |
| 27 | His comments came at the start of the monthly meeting of Castlereagh Council last night where members stood for a minute 's silence in tribute to the four Catholic workmen killed in Castlerock and the two young victims of the IRA Warrington blast . |
| 28 | Newman pulled the Walther automatic out of his pocket , held it on his palm , closed his fingers when Grimwood reached for the weapon . |
| 29 | Until recently Germany accounted for a fifth of its total sales . |