Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] and for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lisabeth asked and for a moment I thought he was going to slam the door on us . |
| 2 | When he did , his eyes narrowed and for a moment Kelly thought he was going to bound across the room and hit her . |
| 3 | Her eyes widened and for a moment she looked scared , but her model 's training stood her in good stead and she showed no other sign of what must have been a shock . |
| 4 | The engine stopped and for a moment there was the silence that can only exist in a forest . |
| 5 | For consensus decision-making to work and for an atmosphere of trust to develop between managers and subordinates , there must be an erosion of status-consciousness . |
| 6 | Lord Justice Browne-Wilkinson said that it is now apparently accepted that it is for the courts to decide whether a privilege exists and for the House of Commons to decide whether such privilege has been infringed . |
| 7 | Although in the past the courts and the House of Commons both claimed the exclusive right to determine whether or not a privilege existed , it is now apparently accepted that it is for the courts to decide whether a privilege exists and for the House to decide whether such privilege has been infringed : see Erskine May on Parliamentary Practice , 21st ed. ( 1989 ) , pp. 147–160 . |
| 8 | Conscious that she must make the most of these last weeks , and grateful for all the happiness and love which she had enjoyed in childhood , she was nevertheless eager for the days to pass and for the news to come that João had arrived from Lisbon to collect his bride . |
| 9 | Owen had other fish to fry and for the next two days he was busy on other things . |
| 10 | It took him two weeks to die and for the second of those we spoke together every night by telephone , often for more than an hour . |
| 11 | It is easy to realise that in gusty conditions , if the glider is being flown slowly , the stall may occur high enough for a wing to drop and for an incipient spin to develop with even more serious results . |
| 12 | Furthermore , the political implication of becoming an observing participant in an institution such as the police is immense , both for the group studied and for the ethnographer . |
| 13 | The weeks changed and for the last two days of my stay , I was the only attender . |
| 14 | She swallowed hard and waited for the ringing in her head to clear and for the room to steady once more , then , summoning all of her courage , she looked at him with icy contempt . |
| 15 | SDLP deputy leader Seamus Mallon has called for the immediate suspension of the officers involved and for the investigation to be carried out by officers from another police force . |
| 16 | Their talk and behaviour took a slightly different form from ours just as their uniforms did and for the same reason but their major premises seemed to be the same . |
| 17 | His voice broke and for a moment he stood silent , then , very quietly , he added , ‘ You will always be my guiding star . ’ |
| 18 | Dunlop refused and for the first time revealed that he considered himself to be the sole owner of the horse . |
| 19 | At the end of that time they again expressed doubts as to their liability to pay and for the next three years paid under protest . |
| 20 | Imagination and reality fused and for a second the sense of foreboding intensified . |
| 21 | They ask for more stimulus than their children provide and for the opportunity to give expression to their other creative and intellectual drives . |
| 22 | pending the receipt of prompt instructions from the bank/organisation keep its interest in the policy in force up to the full sum insured and for the same risks as were covered when the bank's/organisation 's interest was notified ( subject to the insurance not having been replaced elsewhere with the consent of consent of the bank/organisation ) . |
| 23 | Economic growth declined and for a while even became negative . |
| 24 | Samantha woke and for a split second imagined she was still at home , still free to stretch and rise and walk and wash , still at liberty to heed her instincts and indulge her whims . |
| 25 | As the country found itself on the brink of a constitutional crisis , Mr Havel said the best way to avert such a crisis would be for President Husak to quit and for a strong prime minister to assume his authority temporarily , as the constitution permits . |
| 26 | The sun was up , the dark clouds disappeared and for a moment she breathed easy . |
| 27 | Using the tax function introduced above , the multiplier for a change in government expenditure becomes and for a change in autonomous taxation it is |
| 28 | She did not turn her head when Melissa entered and for a moment it seemed that she was unaware of her presence . |
| 29 | The ‘ quality ’ of the links which had been created in the semantic net were compared for the situation in which no Definition Table existed and for the situation in which a Definition Table did exist . |
| 30 | A parents ' evening in late September or early October gives time for the class to settle and for the teacher to get to know something about the child . |