Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [vb past] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I used a variant of it in a pastiche of the 1930s story I wrote for the fiftieth anniversary of Collins Crime Club in 1980 . |
| 2 | After replacing the 'phone I waited for the tingling to stop then looked at my watch . |
| 3 | concrete stairs and , George nearly killed himself on them one morning , but er , and we tried everything to get out of there you know , no one would exchange a two bedroom maisonette for a house and of course I longed for a garden , but , and er George got a job in Hatfield and they offered this three bedroom house The Commission for The New Town , rent was cheaper than here , so we moved over there , but er , as I say we were only there two , three years and we came back again , we were over here , we used to come over here three times a week , when we lived there did n't we ? |
| 4 | A psychological astronomer , I calculated its apogee at approximately 2 to 3 o'clock , unless of course I stopped for a drink . |
| 5 | I put aside some of the money I got for the silver , because Daddy meant to divide his things between us both . ’ |
| 6 | I did not usurp power but I did greatly broaden the use of executive power , in other words this is the modesty part I acted for the public welfare , I acted for the common wellbeing of all our people whenever and in whatever manner was necessary unless prevented by direct constitutional or legislative prohibition Roosevelt suggested that the president subject only to the people of the United States and he identified himself with Andrew Jackson and with Abraham Lincoln . |
| 7 | I had never been a member of the Labour Party , and on the first occasion when I could claim a vote I voted for the Liberal candidate in the Hampstead constituency . |
| 8 | The first piece I wrote for the New Statesman , almost exactly four years ago , began : ‘ People keep asking me , ‘ On what platform will you be standing for deputy leader of the Labour Party ? ' |
| 9 | ‘ If you must have chapter and verse — you remember that piece I did for the Statesman ? |
| 10 | In the camp canteen I looked for the woman who had encouraged me to come to what , by the minute , I was beginning to feel was a god-forsaken hole . |
| 11 | Then at top speed she raced for the keeper 's cottage . |
| 12 | For the interview she opted for a cream silk shirt , and a tailored black skirt . |
| 13 | ( Calle 's show also includes , in the gallery 's smaller room , the piece she did for the Carnegie International about the theft of Old Master paintings from Boston 's Gardner Museum . ) |
| 14 | She took her notepad from the pocket of her apron as she went , and at the doorway she stopped for a moment as if to gather herself . |
| 15 | Oh , by the way , ’ Luke said , locking the door behind them , ‘ Bob Tilling in Accounts just happened to mention the other day that you had settled an invoice for a piece we made for a client in Sherwood Forest . ’ |
| 16 | It was freezing — literally — so after a not-too-exhaustive search we settled for a place that was warm and , as it turned out , very good . |
| 17 | However , the figure we gave for the annual input of carbon into the soil ( 1.2 tonnes of carbon per hectare per year ) include the carbon contributed by algae and photosynthetic bacteria . |
| 18 | In December , Stuttgart will host the Davis Cup final , in which the West Germans will defend the trophy they won for the first time by defeating Sweden in Gothenburg , and in the coming three years Frankfurt will stage the ATP Tour World Championship , which will supersede the Nabisco Masters in New York . |
| 19 | Without showing any sign of emotion he stood for a while at the head of the bier . |
| 20 | Among his patrons was Lord Conway , a wealthy Irish peer whose agent he became for the purchase of rare books in London . |
| 21 | Then , during his three years in exile he came for the first time into close contact with the main exponents of the Gregorian ideal , and we must ask how far and in what circumstances he adopted the phraseology of the Gregorian reformers ; then , whether he adopted the theoretical structure which their favourite phrase libertas ecclesiae expressed , or adopted the phrase for use only in exceptional circumstances and for special reasons . |
| 22 | After that result he disappeared for a short while , but he returned in time to be included in Wilson 's government , initially as Secretary of State for Economic Affairs , a post he held between 1964 and 1966 . |
| 23 | On the advice of Lyell and Hooker he arranged for an account of his own theory to be published alongside Wallace 's paper by the Linnean Society of London . |
| 24 | Gong show VIC REEVES , the big lummox , was on television the other night dropping the gong he received for the most original programme . |
| 25 | By the advice of his college he competed for a college research Fellowship , known as the Charles Kingsley Bye-Fellowship . |
| 26 | In effect it provided for the dismemberment of Abyssinia and the giving to Mussolini of about half of what he had set himself to achieve by conquest . |
| 27 | Walter climbed in beside him , trying hard not to show the fear he felt for the mechanical monster . |
| 28 | Recognizing the impracticality of such an action it opted for a series of initiatives which were consistent with its fight against apartheid in South Africa and its fight for the presentation of a positive image for black people in the UK . |
| 29 | It is unfortunate that Dustin did not similarly mime the songs he sings while strumming a guitar ( an instrument he studied for the part ) , because his singing voice is strained and uncomfortably high . |
| 30 | After lunch I went for a walk in the little market town , now being hardened to being a subject of great curiosity , with people gaping at the sides of the road , and children following us up and down the street . |