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Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] [pers pn] [vb past] for " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Where did you get the inspiration for the hairstyles you created for the Awards ?
2	PP : of course , Ben always challenged the artists he wrote for , extended them and offered new insights into the capabilities of their own voices or instruments .
3	Instead of flying the hedges he went for gateways or gaps and Artemis , seeing what he was doing , managed to steer her bolting pony on the same course .
4	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 .
5	Adam had viewed with near-incredulity his mother 's preparations in the past for going on holiday , the way everything in the house seemed to get washed , the way she and his father wore their worst clothes for days beforehand because the best ones were packed , the phone calls she made , the notes she left for tradesmen .
6	They began to drift into amiable silence when they had asked each other questions about their children and the schools , and the plans they had for their holiday in Ireland .
7	Oh , you do n't know anything about the plans he had for his dear daughter , and you stand there and talk of her marrying a man from the lowest scum family in Newcastle .
8	Dr. Clarke had himself been a surveyor in the town in 1765 : he also cultivated the art of perspective drawing , examples of which can be seen in the plans he drew for Whitaker 's History of Manchester of 1765 and 1771 .
9	The illustrations she produced for the book were based on copies of old master paintings .
10	The illustrations she produced for the book were based on copies of old master paintings .
11	If they 're whingeing because they have n't got quite the times they hoped for , then let them complain into your shell-like ear for a change .
12	Some of the reasons they encountered for not losing weight included ‘ I have n't been to the toilet yet today ’ , ‘ I 've been arguing with my husband ’ , ‘ I absorb fat through my skin ’ , ( especially popular with people working in chip shops and serving school meals ) and ‘ it 's the cough medicine I 'm having for my sore throat ’ .
13	This change in female initiation patterns is also reflected in the reasons they gave for experimentation with heroin in the first place .
14	We can see no merit in repeating here the reasons he gave for that decision since he pronounced his findings in that case in public , pursuant to rule 11(2) of the Hearings before the Visitors Rules 1991 , and the reasons were complex .
15	In the summers I rode for hours on a white pedal car with a hooter and real spark plugs .
16	The dimples she kept for emergencies suddenly appeared in Felicity 's cheeks .
17	Mr Major believes the concessions he won for Denmark 's Premier Poul Schluter can deliver a yes vote .
18	‘ The goals I scored for Charlton and Wednesday were basically created by other players but I think it 's just a matter of time before they start going in again and it should help my game when Geoff Thomas is fit , ’ he added .
19	The pictures she shot for the cinema were negligible compared to the pictures she shot for pure publicity .
20	The pictures she shot for the cinema were negligible compared to the pictures she shot for pure publicity .
21	Little by little , however , the force of this long glen beneath the austere greyness of the Five Sisters touched Johnson , and he moved his position from that of first considering the political role of such remoteness , and the opportunities it gave for military strategies and subsequent escapes — Glenshiel had been the scene of a battle fifty-four years earlier in which local Highlanders unsuccessfully reinforced a Spanish invasion force — to being lulled by the sight of so many waters , brooks , burns , and silver rivulets , ‘ which commonly ran with a clear shallow stream over a hard pebbly bottom ’ .
22	Despite the fact that David was expelled in the third form for dissing the gym teacher who confiscated his Uzi and broke his crack-peddling ring , he still feels enough loyalty to the old alma mater not to drag its name through the mud by engaging the lads he fagged for in a ‘ naughty-word ’ style debate .
23	In the duets he cheated for her , sang some of her more difficult phrases with her to drown her inadequacies , and frequently stopped the piano to suggest changes of key .
24	They had failed to change with the times , so the speeches they wrote for the Queen did her no favours .
25	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 .
26	And the traps he set for the villains would have killed them .
27	The words I dreamed for you ,
28	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 .
29	Merchants and artisans in the towns normally contributed to the material wealth of the landowner in the form of the rents they paid for their places of domicile and work .
30	When Pravda became the Bolsheviks ' legal mouthpiece in St Petersburg in 1912 , he suffered the frustration of having many of the articles he submitted for publication rejected by the editors in Russia ; communication between the Central Committee and local party organs was much too tenuous to admit of close supervision ; and , as we shall see , during the war and the revolution itself , Lenin 's word was by no means accepted as holy writ .