Example sentences of "[vb past] for [art] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I made no comment on this at the time ( though privately I thought it a brash boast ) but when we met for the interview I asked if he had brought the pendulum with him . |
| 2 | Benny sprinted for the doors she had come in by , but already more guards were arriving from their stations , and the first few shots buzzed past her . |
| 3 | And he was a wounded pensioner er and he , he applied for a grant which you , which er a wounded soldier in the First World War could get if you had a pension he could get a grant of that pension to learn a trade . |
| 4 | ‘ I know you cared for the boy yourself . ’ |
| 5 | But nobody cared for the stones he told And he sat all alone of a night Until one day a traveller came in from the cold A sorry and miserable sight . |
| 6 | I lunged for the computer which contained my first four hard-laboured chapters , and it literally burst into flames at my touch . |
| 7 | I figured that if I asked for a transfer I 'd either get a rise or would be able to work out a better deal for myself if I went elsewhere . |
| 8 | The successful schemes were unsentimental and transcended the apparent dilemma posed by the design brief which asked for a building which related to preformed and powerful sensibilities and beliefs about life and death and which is also required to be effectively energy conscious . |
| 9 | He hesitated only briefly before he said , ‘ Because it asked for a reservation I have no wish to make . |
| 10 | As he made for the door she said , ‘ You wo n't forget to take that bottle in for her , will you ? |
| 11 | As he made for the door he heard the phone ringing in the hall and when he entered he saw Joe turn from the telephone table towards him , saying , ‘ It 's for you , Martin . |
| 12 | As she made for the doors she was suddenly halted by the realization that she had no money with her . |
| 13 | Many of these Whig Jacobite tracts can be said to reflect commonwealth principles , in the sense that they argued for a monarchy which would be severely limited . |
| 14 | From an avowed anti-socialist such an argument was by no means entirely free of complexities ; indeed he seemed aware of them , even to draw pleasure from the difficulty they posed for an opponent who would have to sort out the tangle . |
| 15 | She phoned for a taxi which arrived in a few minutes . |
| 16 | As she headed for the stairs her mind was already trying to calculate the time since the call . |
| 17 | Instead of looking to overcome their current problems with a bold outlook , George Graham opted for an approach which utterly lacked ambition . |
| 18 | Boris Anrep , for instance , whom the Berkeleys used to encounter when they stayed with Maud Russell at Mottisfont , gave them the model he painted for the mosaics which were intended for the apse of Westminster Cathedral ( it stands on the chest of drawers in their bedroom ) and Hugh Honour and John Fleming gave them the marble hermaphrodite which reclines on the top of a bookcase in the study . |
| 19 | When the time came for the machine which had been keeping her husband alive to be turned off , my friend faced the reality of his condition and let him go . |
| 20 | He had not been at Eton himself but when he played for the masters his volleying in the Field Game — the Eton form of football — was long remembered . |
| 21 | She informed her great-granddaughter that if she filed for a divorce she would take Andrew 's side and say that what he had done in taking a mistress and in finally attempting suicide was because she had never acted as a wife to him . |
| 22 | I immediately gestured to the Hurricanes to carry on to Malta by themselves as we were ditching and we turned for the coast ourselves , losing height all the way . |
| 23 | He 'll be ridiculed , he 'll be mocked , he 'll be scourged , you know something reserved for the people who were really being taught a lesson . |
| 24 | They also acted for the Trust which owns Canova 's ‘ Three Graces ’ , so nearly exported from the United Kingdom in 1989 , and for Lord Northampton in his acquisition of part of the Roman Sevso treasure , at present the subject of a legal dispute in the New York courts . |
| 25 | Those flares you fired for the war you ended are still burning for the peace that you won . |
| 26 | An English statesman arrived for a feast he had arranged between the Jews present as guests and the Arabs who were their hosts . |
| 27 | Welling were originally told £2.70 , but when young Welling fans arrived for the match they found it was £3.90 . |
| 28 | Thurot 's first attempt to land in Ireland , near Londonderry , was a failure and one of his ships became separated and never rejoined him , leaving four to turn up next on the Isle of Islay off the coast of Argyll in western Scotland , where , with a courtesy rare among invaders , he paid for the provisions he needed . |
| 29 | Ha ha I paid for the tickets I 'm gon na drink it . |
| 30 | I learned that my parents had got to London and prayed for the day I 'd be able to see them . |