Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] for [adj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I asked for half the fee in advance , and was given a wafer confirming the immediate transfer of the amount to my Fedbank . |
| 2 | Visuals are very important in terms of information recall I modelled for this a couple of years ago . |
| 3 | I speak for all the servants of the embassy in Paris . |
| 4 | I prayed for all the King 's Kids in their work places . |
| 5 | A few doors away I watched for half an hour through a film of sunlit flour motes as a small , soft mass of dough was miraculously spun and flung out to cover six-foot squares of sacking by two whirling , wizened old men . |
| 6 | Lunch was an avocado and prawn sandwich and a carton of mango juice , which I admit were a bit out of character but otherwise I looked for all the world like a real musher . |
| 7 | Precisely why he had been sent to Tonga — what special knowledge or circumstance — was never explained and , sitting as I did for many an evening on the veranda of the magnificent old Residency , watching the fireflies and listening to the surf booming on the reef , I was not too sorely tempted to enquire . |
| 8 | I sat for half an hour outside the dining room like a pickle in a jam factory . |
| 9 | Now could I ask for all the members to say the Mothers ' Union prayer , the nineteen seventy four one which you will find on page three . |
| 10 | He took us to the Þingvellir National park where the clouds parted and the sun shone on square kilometres of snow that was so clean and pure it made me weep for all the time we had lost on the trip , and for the pleasure of being where I wanted to be . |
| 11 | Payment is at the discretion of your Manager who will tell you whether or not you qualify for such a payment . |
| 12 | Sometimes you long for half an hours |
| 13 | You danced for all the Daddies |
| 14 | In a fit of temper she arranged for all the surrounding elms to catch Dutch Elm Disease and quickly died . |
| 15 | Well there was a big reunion er you know for all the m all the soldiers all the sold came back out of the war . |
| 16 | Throughout the academic year she campaigned for such an appointment to be made until the local authority provided additional money for this post to be advertised . |
| 17 | When Sweetheart fixed her hair and make-up a certain way and dressed up in the clothes she made on her treadle sewing machine , she looked for all the world like Jane Russell come to life from the big screen . |
| 18 | His sister " face was pinched , her eyes large and dark against the paleness of her skin , and she looked for all the world like some sort of trapped animal . |
| 19 | She felt for all the world as if she 'd had a hangover — an event that had happened exactly once in her well-ordered life . |
| 20 | She collects for all the charities and her , she 's a great organizer , terrific . |
| 21 | If you like a challenge — and the chance of a £5,000 prize to boot — The Key To The Kingdom ( Pavilion Books , £12.99 ) will keep you occupied for many an hour . |
| 22 | And have you paid for all the rest ? |
| 23 | She pinched herself , but might as well have been pinching the padded plastic of the bed on which she sat for all the sensation she felt . |
| 24 | We stopped for half an hour in Reading to wait for a connection . ’ |
| 25 | Sultry singer N' Dea added : ‘ We played for half an hour , jumped in our van and got out fast . ’ |
| 26 | We gossiped for half an hour in the office and then walked up to the United Universities Club and had lunch . |
| 27 | In terms of prospecting , I usually do the training exhibition at the N E C every July , er , in eighty six , a man came onto my stand and we chatted for half an hour , he then said to tell you the truth I 'm not interested now , but I will be interested next May . |
| 28 | AT BEEFEATER WE CARE FOR ALL THE FAMILY |
| 29 | Neither the wording of the section nor its underlying purpose seems to me to call for such an anomalous distinction . |
| 30 | You are such a bad man bringing women home for me to cook for that the courts would acquit me . ’ |