Example sentences of "[pos pn] [adj] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , I allowed Monday to get my eleven for the following week . |
| 2 | I fought my hardest for the Dutch prisoners before the Privy Council this morning , but the tribunal was hopelessly divided , and the anti-Boers prevailed over the pro-Boers . |
| 3 | Except my agent had a will of sponge , so instead of telling the charity committee to go take a bath in some sulphuric acid , I 'd find myself trekking off to Bodmin to give my all for the local branch of the Cats ' Protection League . |
| 4 | Durie said : ‘ I 've been up front on my own for a few games . |
| 5 | ft was just about the last poem I wrote on my own for the next six months or so ; it is called ‘ Believing Is Seeing ’ , and it was also about a carving , the sculpture illustrating the miracle of Christ healing the blind man : |
| 6 | It was Barbara Castle who remarked , when Mrs Thatcher became leader of the Conservatives in 1975 , that power had made her pretty for the first time . |
| 7 | The library staff can manage on their own for a little while , I 'm sure . ’ |
| 8 | Young people striking out on their own for the first time frequently do not have transport and colleges or universities are not always situated in city centres . |
| 9 | Although they 're among the poorest people in the community , many feel better off than they 've ever been — they 've got money , time and friends of their own for the first time . |
| 10 | For , as Raymond Briggs once said , in Maus the cartoon book holds its own for the first time against all-comers as a literary medium . |
| 11 | Questions are frequently divided into two or more parts , and this division raises difficulties of its own for the inexpert candidate . |
| 12 | In addition to the national objectives such as Health of the Nation , Patient 's Charter and Caring for People , NEHA has identified specific targets of its own for the coming year . |
| 13 | Outmoded by the plastics for smaller kites , it comes into its own for the big stuff as , for example , replica Cody man lifters , or the large Baden-Powell ‘ Levitor ’ where , in turn , it replaces the bamboo spars in the original pioneer designs . |
| 14 | Tallis was on her own for the first time in her eight years or so in this unimaginable land . |
| 15 | Liz , a 25-year-old single woman , had been living on her own for the previous year in a flat above a small craft shop that she ran together with her mother . |
| 16 | Leith spent the next few minutes in accepting that somehow she was going to have to pay her brother 's share of the hefty monthly repayment as well as her own for the next seven months minimum . |
| 17 | I thought we were lovers ! she wanted to scream , but she swallowed her hurt for the thousandth time and forced a smile . |
| 18 | Then came the infamous NME interview last November — their last for the weekly music papers . |
| 19 | Dick Hansen on a cold day in February 1992 , flying his P-40 for the first time . |
| 20 | It was generally felt he would have won at St Andrews after his 29 for the first nine in the first round if he had n't had part of the round washed out and had to continue the next day . |
| 21 | This is his first for a new company — he left Motown after 30 years , following Berry Gordy 's own departure — and the tracks have a fresh , live feel to them . |
| 22 | ‘ Here and Now ’ ( ) , his Blue Note release from the autumn of last year , is his first for a major label , although ‘ new ’ he is not : Keezer was the last occupant of the Jazz Messengers ' piano stool at the time of Art Blakey 's untimely death last year . |
| 23 | Goals from Jimmy Quinn and Philip Gray — his first for the international team — were enough to see of the Baltic challenge although Denmark 's victory over Albania earlier in the day put paid to our last fading hopes of qualifying for the World Cup finals in America . |
| 24 | The boy was going to the boxroom and was clearly excited at possessing a room of his own for the first time . |
| 25 | When they first interviewed Sykes , on Monday this is , he told them he was staying at a cottage in the Lake District entirely on his own for the first two and a half weeks in September . |
| 26 | And the issue was still very much alive , for here beside him , listening alertly and with a dry little smile , was the earl of Leicester , who , whether in earnest or in mischief , was urging a plea of his own for the same prize . |
| 27 | His Parsifal for the 1981 Holland Festival was similarly touching . |
| 28 | Saving his best for the last , Kite , who started the final round with a one-shot lead , closed the greatest scoring binge of his 22-year US Tour career with a 29 on the back nine on the Arnold Palmer Course at PGA West . |
| 29 | Hopper went on television to denounce Universal for suppressing his film and The Last Movie became his last for a long , long time . |
| 30 | A long ways away from his 20 for the past four seasons with Sheff . |