Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] [verb] for [art] " in BNC.

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1 I only fill them in that I know for a fact .
2 I repeat that if one adds to that the £40 million from the foundation , the £20 million a year for football and the £1 million that I found for the champion coaching scheme , it is clear that our commitment to sport is greater than anyone 's .
3 I had an old air-raid shelter , partly dug into the ground because of the slope : there was a load of stones on top , waiting to turn the shelter into an apple store disguised as a rockery , and when Mrs Wilson saw this she stood for a long time looking at the hump in the ground and the pile of stones .
4 Forming a club enables them to enter competitions together , and this they did for the first time recently at the combined Hampshire and Berkshire county championships , held at Reading gaol .
5 Hahnemann therefore had to move frequently as restrictions on his practice were imposed in one town after another , but despite this he lectured for a time on homoeopathy in the University of Leipzig and he had a large band of influential patrons and supporters as well as a number of able and gifted pupils .
6 Another of his favourites seems to have been a tomato jam ; this he uses for a sweet called Peaches Barbara with cream and kirschwasser and pistachio nuts .
7 On Sept. 30 he called for the first time for dialogue to reach an equitable global settlement , addressing himself particularly to France which he had identified as more flexible [ see below for Mitterrand 's UN speech ] , although once again stressing that there would be no compromise over Kuwait belonging to Iraq .
8 Her house was full of bead curtains and reproduction furniture — a fact which impressed me so much I thought for a long time that Reproduction was a period like Jacobean and Elizabethan .
9 Guess how much I paid for the Christmas pud ?
10 In 1979 I interviewed for the first ( and last ) time the newly elected Prime Minister , Margaret Thatcher .
11 The bottom half of the page is how much she gets for every ten pounds she 's got to spend , but before we find out she 's got to spend , what we 've got to do is take off the policy fee .
12 I wonder how much she gets for the er
13 Apart from the cat she was going to spay , no other clients came in , but there was a telephone call from someone who wanted to know how much she charged for a booster injection .
14 The Pytchley , under Mr. George Payne , gave her two brushes — and three rousing cheers , for she enjoyed the first day 's hunting with them so much she stayed for a second .
15 How much you pay for the eurocheque service depends on the number of cheques you issue , but there is an annual fee of £5 for your eurocheque card .
16 On to Wing On Street , better known as Cloth Alley , where you can find silks , linens and wools at incredibly low prices , and where the salesmen know exactly how much you need for a shirt or a suit .
17 In June 1991 they voted for the most democratic free-marketeer on offer in a presidential election .
18 In the reign of Henry III they accounted for the agistment dues at the Exchequer , but made substantial payments into the Wardrobe from time to time , and paid out sums locally for such purposes as the maintenance of a neighbouring royal castle , building operations , the enclosure of a royal park , and the expenses incurred by the Forest officers in taking venison for the king .
19 I 've got no specific figures or names in mind , but I think there will be a further growth , particularly in the number of people who supply existing credit cards , and that 's important because they may do better and different deals with the retailers over how much they charge for the processing .
20 In 1678 he applied for a patent for a new way of processing flax , which may have been related to investigations of this topic made under the society 's auspices in the 1660s .
21 In the 1650s Howard evidently also developed an interest in industrial practices , and on 27 October 1660 he applied for a patent for a new method of tanning , the subject of a printed broadsheet , Brief directions how to Tanne Leather according to a new Invention ( n.d . ) .
22 JA II impresses first with how tiny it looks for a car with such a monstrous reputation , second for the sheer physical intensity of the power when the Ford V8 crashes into life .
23 It 's like my mum , she paid to get them developed right and about two weeks later she goes in that 's how much it costs for a week .
24 Thus to bring to all our attention how much it matters for the encouragement of arts , commerce and trade which er , for manufacturers which is the full title of the Royal Society of Arts .
25 In moments of crisis like that you reach for the old dependables .
26 However , when he later became drowsy she telephoned for an ambulance to take him to hospital .
27 In the early seventies I canvassed for a Labour candidate , who , when elected , turned out to be anti-gay .
28 ‘ I 'm glad you stopped for the children .
29 ‘ I 'm glad she waited for the wedding to be over , ’ whispered Mrs Alderley in Theda 's ear , as she joined her by the French windows that had been opened to the terrace outside .
30 In 1940 he fell for an actor who was his lover for two years before joining the navy in 1942 .
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