Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pers pn] [vb past] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My deeper antipathy to Germany and Germans I restrained for a while , on the absurd grounds that it was somehow unreasonable to abominate each of two mutually ill-disposed nations . |
| 2 | But when I did so , the words I uttered for the record were that I could not accept that the proper constitutional practices , as I understood them , were being observed . |
| 3 | The pictures she shot for the cinema were negligible compared to the pictures she shot for pure publicity . |
| 4 | Those flares you fired for the war you ended are still burning for the peace that you won . |
| 5 | They had failed to change with the times , so the speeches they wrote for the Queen did her no favours . |
| 6 | Unlike the role it played in the IFL , political anti-semitism never became a total ideological explanation of all the imagined ills of British society for most of the official leadership of the BUF , though there were obvious exceptions like William Joyce and some of the speakers he trained for the East End campaign of 1935 — 7 . |
| 7 | And the traps he set for the villains would have killed them . |
| 8 | If in past decades we waited for the telegram to arrive , it did not lessen the shock , but it did prepare us for the event . |
| 9 | But the only thing that was important about the film was its length and the ill omens it offered for the future . |
| 10 | The illustrations she produced for the book were based on copies of old master paintings . |
| 11 | The illustrations she produced for the book were based on copies of old master paintings . |
| 12 | Where did you get the inspiration for the hairstyles you created for the Awards ? |
| 13 | But our to avoid that situation I left and went to work with which kept me in the Edinburgh branch and within three or four weeks I stood for the local organizer and had not been successful . |
| 14 | For many years I consulted for the American GE in Schenectady and the thing that struck me there was the way that when they wanted to attack a particular area they could mount an army of people on it , all of whom were pretty good . ’ |
| 15 | I use to dread going in to work — in the two years I worked for the Inland Revenue I do not think I worked a full month — and in the end I left . |
| 16 | Bad days she reached for the neck of the nearest bottle , never quite drunk , never quite sober , maundering on to Francis about the impossibility of love . |
| 17 | Laura was admitted to Birmingham Children 's Hospital for specialist treatment where Mrs Allen maintained a 24-hour vigil during the 12 weeks they waited for a liver to become available . |
| 18 | Voting patterns in these constituencies indicated that the FIS would have little difficulty in securing the additional 28 seats it needed for an absolute majority in the National Assembly . |
| 19 | As soon as we had cleared customs he made for a bank of telephones , and when he rejoined me he was smiling . |
| 20 | Despite his disappointments he starred for the South African side which played as Springboks against the Juniors late last season . |
| 21 | After 10 years he worked for The Farmers Journal . |
| 22 | You would think we all agreed that acting to end third-world poverty was our number one priority , and that we would all , with barely a sigh of regret , give up our cars , our fridge-freezers and dishwashers , would cease commuting and return to live in the cities we abandoned for the good of our children , and would generally resume our lives as good citizens after 13 years in the desert . |
| 23 | Two weeks later , the changes I wanted for the animals — shade , water , things like that — were done . |
| 24 | When he disappeared behind the dunes I sat for a while , scratching my crotch as the wind played with my hair and the birds returned to their nests . |
| 25 | With her literary earnings she paid for the education of a young sister , who became her amanuensis and moved to Edinburgh with her in 1847 . |
| 26 | Beyond that , the White Paper Better Services for the Mentally III ( 1975 ) also set out rates of provision which health and local authorities ought to be aiming to achieve For ‘ oughtness ’ could be read council discretion about what priorities they had for the distribution of ‘ new moneys ’ . |
| 27 | But , apart from the sound of their own slightly laboured breathing as they toiled steadily uphill , the chattering of birds and the rustlings of small animals in the undergrowth were the only sounds they heard for the rest of the day . |
| 28 | When they acquired holes he applied for a clothing grant . |
| 29 | In fact , usually , he never saw the cheques he got for the ‘ Carry On ’ films . |
| 30 | As father said at the beginning of gruelling sessions in the vacs , the techniques I needed for the next few years — apart from those concerned with sport — dealt not so much with manual skills but with communication , both written and oral . |