Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [adv] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other two barmaids , all agog , who would talk about nothing else for the rest of the Gay . |
| 2 | Had kept all of them just for the proud thrill of his in truth rather badly formed hand . |
| 3 | And the Beau Nash Room might just as well have been their luxury coach : twenty-three of them only for the minute , with Eddie Stratton now being held in custody by the New York Police , distanced by only a few yards , as it happened , from the mortal remains of his former wife ; and with Sam and Vera Kronquist , one of the three married couples originally listed on the tour , still in their room on the second floor of the hotel — Sam watching a mid-morning cartoon on ITV , and Vera , fully dressed , lying back lazily against the pillows of their double bed , reading the previous February 's issue of Country Life . |
| 4 | We 've been looking for you everywhere for the past hour ! |
| 5 | I think it might be an excellent idea if you forgot about everything else for a minute and let me hold you . ’ |
| 6 | First , there is no denying the tragedy of separated Christians , and I for one long for the Church to be one . |
| 7 | Did he live with me only for the sake of appearances , perhaps ? |
| 8 | On leaving the castle , the dapper-suited President Havel , more at home in sweater and jeans , stood with everyone else for a rendering of the national anthem . |
| 9 | I just could n't go and get off with someone just for a joke , I could n't do it . |
| 10 | ‘ You ca n't really believe I went to bed with you just for a story ? ’ |
| 11 | , we wo n't be dealing with anybody else for a while , I can tell you . |
| 12 | I would sit with her often for a whole hour , she with her feet up on the sofa , resting . |
| 13 | I was with him constantly for a whole year and in that time I never saw him with anyone , man or woman . |
| 14 | He reached for the Caithness paperweight on his desk and fiddled with it absently for a moment . |
| 15 | Now take that cat to your room and work with it there for the rest of the morning . |
| 16 | The clowning begins right from the start , with him snatching up the Sony the minute it 's on the table , talking into it conspiratorially for the next hour in his trademark , Looney Toons drawl , playing dumb , hijacking questions and spinning them into semantic hyperspace , treating any attempt at conversation as one big word association game ( ’ No , I 'm not a geek ; I 'm a geek orthodox ’ ) . |
| 17 | Thank you very much , please do stay with us either for the whole afternoon , or certainly for the next |
| 18 | If it will please you To show us so much gentry and goodwill As to expand your time with us awhile For the supply and profit of our hope , Your visitation shall receive such thanks As fits a king 's remembrance . |
| 19 | These three have worked together harmoniously and with some notable successes since Reilly took charge early in 1987 and it is certain that he would want them alongside him again for the hard year ahead , in which Great Britain play 10 Tests , including three World Cup games . |
| 20 | These three have worked together harmoniously and with some notable successes since Reilly took charge early in 1987 and it is certain that he would want them alongside him again for the hard year ahead , in which Great Britain play 10 Tests , including three World Cup games . |
| 21 | So suddenly fatherless , and so abruptly given to a husband , translated from the familiar company of her sisters at Brecon to this barbarous foreign court where she was the last and loneliest of the children , Isabella had looked round her forlornly for an anchorage to which she might ride in safety . |
| 22 | What 's more , Bishop is n't in it just for the money , he wants to see some blood spilt — even that of his friends … |
| 23 | Most of them are in it just for the bylines and the booze , you know . |
| 24 | ‘ Unlike some he is prepared to work hard and is not in it just for the glory . |
| 25 | Leaving Hong Kong had not just removed her from the battlefield ; it had left them alone in it together for the first time in their lives . |
| 26 | Members of these covens are usually ‘ nominal ’ witches who pay only lip-service to the dogmas and are interested in it only for the kicks it provides . |
| 27 | We should be getting at least to March all supplied from us now for the next three or four months it should all be from us . |
| 28 | Then , opening them again , she resumed her earlier apologetic furtiveness and , like a nocturnal animal twitching before a predator , begged her sister not to laugh , not to make fun of her , not to comment straight away or say she was an idiot or slap her down , but please , please , to let her have her dream about him just for a night . |
| 29 | He had come before luncheon , eaten everything put before him with great dedication , looked about him hopefully for the cigar the household did not possess , and then explained abruptly without any preliminaries to Alexandra that she was her aunt 's sole heir . |
| 30 | I pay tribute to them tonight for the work that they have undertaken in an attempt to keep us aware of what is happening out there . |