Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [noun] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was there a secret reason that made them hanker for a new life in a new world ? |
| 2 | I have a couple of mates who are Forest fans , and I got them tickets for the first game of the season . |
| 3 | It 'd be easier if we met my troops for the first time at the concert , ’ he said . |
| 4 | Only your good news banished my cares for a while . |
| 5 | After we had lived there for a few years , we wanted to buy it and do it up , so we asked my College for a mortgage . |
| 6 | It turned out that he shared my liking for the more conventional kind of organ . |
| 7 | That 's how I got interested in the sport : I read about the first black champion , Jack Johnson and it created my interest for the first time . |
| 8 | ‘ He swopped my mother for a younger woman when he was in his late sixties . |
| 9 | In Los Angeles , where I lectured for a living , I pursued my fascination for the harmonic patterns and golden-mean ratios which run so consistently through the sacred art , music and architecture of both Western and oriental mystical traditions . |
| 10 | He used my shoulder for a support while he was firing . |
| 11 | Newcastle manager Kevin Keegan tried to lure Beardsley back to his native North East earlier this season , but Kendall spurned their attempt for the player he holds up as an example to all professionals . |
| 12 | His team dismissed their opponents for a record low score . |
| 13 | She saw her tutor 's enquiring look and dismissed her benefactor for the moment . |
| 14 | Many students told me that they only joined the League because it was the correct thing to do at middle school and at university they maintained their membership for the social functions the League organised , such as outings and dances . |
| 15 | ROUND the world yachtsman Robin Knox-Johnson and his crew were off the southern coast of Brazil yesterday as they maintained their challenge for the Jules Verne Trophy . |
| 16 | Around half returned almost immediately , while half deferred their studies for a year . |
| 17 | They bartered their grain for the salt he 'd brought back from the border , where he traded with Tibetans who 'd scraped it from the arid salt-lakes and carried it south on yaks across the windswept dust-blown plateau lands . |
| 18 | Yet it never entered her head for a moment to think that Prince Charles was remotely interested in romance . |
| 19 | She cracked her face for a while . |
| 20 | Organiser doubted its suitability for a Metro event owing to nearby building site noise , heavy use for music rehearsals and inability to black–out glass roof . |
| 21 | Earlier this week we joined them in Hungary as they rehearsed their display for the Fairford show . |
| 22 | Sharpe caught her eye for a second , then turned away as Lucille ran to him . |
| 23 | The play moved over to the other side of the field and they stopped their conversation for a moment to follow it . |
| 24 | In ex-army gear I would n't be seen , as long as I kept still , sitting on my hands , pale face buried in a heather clump , but those long heads that rose between rasping bites of coarse grass had twitching noses that never stopped their search for the enemy — a very efficient sort of olfactory radar . |
| 25 | Its academic success had been such that it had become progressively less progressive , its original zeal swamped by the fee-paying prosperous solid Northern conservatism of parents and offspring : it had become a bastion of respectability , its one-time principles upheld by stray survivors like Doddridge , who appeared blithely not to notice that at election time the entire school , with one or two flamboyant exceptions , howled its enthusiasm for the Tory Party . |
| 26 | Things were just a touch grim at the Shakespeare School before it occluded its portals for the vacation . |
| 27 | The question may have niggled at the 7,776 advertising talents who entered their work for the prestigious Design & Art Direction Awards , some of whom will turn up tonight at a glittering Grosvenor House junket to find out whether they have won one of the silver or gold pencils . |
| 28 | Leonora clenched her teeth for an instant as her body yielded to his with a fleeting moment of pain , then she relaxed as they lay still for an instant in the very eye of the storm . |
| 29 | On April 2 an estimated 50,000 people demonstrated their support for the democracy movement in Kathmandu , while doctors and other professionals joined a general strike , in defiance of legislation prohibiting strikes in " essential services " . |
| 30 | Lionel Elvin , Director of the University of London Institute of Education , had , as a member of the Robbins Committee , framed its recommendations for the teacher training colleges ( as they were called before the committee 's recommendation that they be renamed colleges of education ) to be brought within the universities ' ambit . |