Example sentences of "[to-vb] for [art] [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Richard Miles led a quiet life … and used to go for a drink a couple of times a week with friends at the Kings Heads in the village of Eastington , about three miles from his home . |
| 2 | And they used to stage , well when we used to go for a penny the stage , they used to perhaps have competitions for the childrens what used to want to go on . |
| 3 | Two foot square strips are likely to go for a fiver a sod and will be accompanied by certificates of authenticity from manager Mick McCarthy . |
| 4 | I thought er that God wanted me to be a doctor and I did n't have a place to go to , I took my A levels having had five chances of places to be a doctor and everybody saying no , we do n't want you and erm I had everybody praying for me at church and quite miraculously at the end of the August , when I should start in the September , I had a phone call at half past ten at night from a surgeon at the London Hospital asking me to go for an interview the next day . |
| 5 | In the 870s , his successors Hadrian II and John VIII exploited an impending imperial vacancy ( Louis II of Italy lacked a male heir ) to claim for the papacy the right to choose emperors . |
| 6 | Now the Anyons will be returning on dives to search for the boat the sword guard came from . |
| 7 | One of Jacob Rothschild 's first decisions as Chairman of the National Heritage Memorial Fund was not to acquire for the nation the most comprehensive collection in England of naive art shop signs , weather vanes , country furniture , marine samplers and quilts , made between 1750 and 1900 offered by dealer/collector Andras Kalman . |
| 8 | Ariel began to long for the peace the latter draughts brought to her . |
| 9 | In his search to act as arbiter and to secure for the papacy the defensor so needed in his ecclesiastical-political programme for Europe he had ( as it seemed ) changed sides three times , much as the princes themselves . |
| 10 | During the Second World War , three influential reports were published which were to shape the evolution of statutory planing : the Barlow Report , in 1940 , which advocated controlled industrial decentralization from the conurbations ; the Scott Report , in 1942 , which argued for a system of planning controls to protect the agricultural use of the countryside ; and the Uthwatt Report , also in 1942 , which recommended nationalization of undeveloped land to secure for the community the value added to land by the planning system . |
| 11 | Not only does Dame Sirith advertise her professional ability to repeat the trick , or to obtain for a man the woman he wants in the way he wants , and thus anticipate her ability to star in an extended series of fabliaux that the poet may tell , but the language and prosody convey certain points that lie at the heart of the fabliau perspective . |
| 12 | The purpose of doing so is to attempt to obtain for the landlord a higher rent than would be awarded by the court on an application for an interim rent under s24A of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 . |
| 13 | Accordingly , it was the duty of the solicitors who were instructing counsel to make this claim and who , in correspondence , had evinced an intention to seek an order for costs against the local authority because of the supposed failure of the local authority to discharge its duty properly , to provide for the court a detailed statement of those costs ; moreover , to prepare that statement with proper care . |
| 14 | Permit me to take up our plight — try to imagine for a moment the straight and level run in to the target , " bombs gone " followed by the desperate seconds ( best described by one of my Canadian pilots as " when I bite buttons off my parachute cushion " ) before the automatic photoflash and the aiming point picture taken by the night camera . |
| 15 | But towards the end of our stay in Kuwait , the rules were relaxed , and we were allowed out to a nearby sports stadium to exercise for an hour every day . |
| 16 | It is truly a sublime glen : you can scarcely allow the eye to leave for a minute the mighty mountain walls on either side ( for some new scar , or crag , or corrie , or leaping cataract is ever being discovered ) , and their charming variegation of shade and tint among the mosses , rock , and grass , or among the heath and heather-bell . |
| 17 | I thought , oh dear , so we got to bed by this time , and we lay , and we just could n't get to sleep for the noise the tent was making . |
| 18 | The Justices had power to seize for the king the bailiwicks of Forest wardens and foresters of fee who were guilty of misconduct in office , and on occasion removed unpaid Forest officers such as the verderers . |
| 19 | Typical are the films written by T. E. B. Clarke , such as Passport to Pimlico ( 1949 ) , about a community whose discovery that it is an independent Burgundian principality enables the inhabitants to forget for a while the realities of post-war austerity , and The Lavender Hill Mob ( 1951 ) , about a bank clerk who robs a bank . |
| 20 | These are people who are so obsessed with the first decade of this new century that they 're inclined to forget for a moment the nineteen hundred or so years that went before it . |
| 21 | To compete for the award a partnership was formed representing all sectors in the town : Private sector : Teesside and District Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Teesside Tomorrow . |
| 22 | This requirement has now been dispensed with and in order to qualify for the discount the alarm must be in accordance with the IS199 specification only . |
| 23 | I want to consider for a moment the true price of coal . |
| 24 | In his ward at the Waterloo they 'd been allowed to smoke for an hour a day . |
| 25 | The Sterlings are aimed at middle aged male high wage earners who are willing to pay for the status the British luxury car can bring . |
| 26 | To pay for the outlay the federal government would increase customs and import duties . |
| 27 | In some cases , where the parents are dead or permanently unable to care for the child the local authority assumes parental rights over the child . |
| 28 | The British Museum wants to recover for the nation the 2,000-year-old bronze Roman plaque which fetched £26,000 at auction after its removal one night from land in North Yorkshire . |
| 29 | Berkshire family health services authority amended the new form from July 1991 to ask for the time the visit was made . |