Example sentences of "for [art] [adj] [noun pl] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who said : ‘ I am deeply sorry for the unkind things I said about Liverpool . |
| 2 | I felt under the dash for the dangling keys I had Dreamed there . |
| 3 | Not wishing to be a pansy , I stepped up my pace too , but I was no match for the male legs I was pursuing since both of my spindly little limbs could fit into the right leg of his breeches . |
| 4 | Now unless there 's a prosecution we have the facts for the other offenses I understand . |
| 5 | I conclude , then , not with stirring words of praise for the philosophy of animal rights , or with caustic words of censure for the other philosophies I have mentioned . |
| 6 | Also to you — the readers — for buying my first book , and for the many letters I received , mainly nostalgic . |
| 7 | ‘ Then she burst into tears — as she always has done for the four years I 've known her ’ |
| 8 | Then she burst into tears — as she always has done for the four years I 've known her . |
| 9 | Er , after I had my children my whole body sagged and I 'd lost a lot of weight and I could n't put it on and I was really skinny and there was no way I could eat , eat a lot and I still would n't put weight on so I started on the weight training and that does n't cost me money and now I 've started putting weight on , so for the skinny kids I think the thing is to do the weight training |
| 10 | Or is it that you 're worried about having to work a bit harder for the grand wages I give you … wages that 's been strangled out of me by that bloody woman o ’ yours ? ’ |
| 11 | For the patterned butterflies I used a small part of the leaf design . |
| 12 | For the 3 weeks I 've been there , there 's been shelling every night just a few metres from where we were . |
| 13 | John Bunyan wrote of the reading of his youth : " Give me a ballad , a news-book , George on horseback , or Bevis of Southampton ; give me some book that teaches curious arts , that tells of old fables ; but for the holy Scriptures I cared not . " |
| 14 | He does sometimes get into a ‘ delayed ’ mood where he thinks he has more time than he does … the reason for the square/back passes I reckon is noone moves into space for him or looks for it up front . |
| 15 | For the twenty years I knew him he had been close to only three girls , maybe only one . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I ca n't say as much for the few farmers I 've met — always with the exception of Mr Jarvis , of course . |
| 17 | For the local elections I would like to appeal to you to put your name forward as a candidate . |
| 18 | If I had used mail order for the larger items I could have easily shaved off a further 10% of these costs and come well within my allotted amount . |
| 19 | I would like to thank you all for your presence — in both senses of the word , but especially for the smiling faces I see in front of me . |
| 20 | Now if that is correct perhaps a minister could say so and clear in explicit terms er because it is very , very important because increasingly er a number of firms act in er in er in in both capacities and indeed for the large firms I think many of us are aware of the difficulty that 's now arising and there are only half a dozen very large accountancy firms that are capable of providing accounting and auditing services in this country and indeed most of them are beneficiaries of this government 's largesse in awarding public service contracts er to a surprising degree and so the government will be well aware of the problem . |
| 21 | A petite , pleasant-faced doxy , however , caught my eye and for a few hours I became old Shallot again , whiling away the time , telling the most outrageous stories and making her laugh both in the taproom and on her feather-filled mattress in the chamber above . |
| 22 | For a few minutes I was free of this terrible worry about who I am , about my family . |
| 23 | ‘ For a few minutes I was at peace with myself . ’ |
| 24 | For a few moments I was intensely conscious of the tree and saw nothing else . |
| 25 | For a few moments I was utterly terrified . |
| 26 | For a few moments I had let my mind plunge into darkness , into a world where the experience of all my life was disproved and ghosts existed . |
| 27 | For a few moments I felt disappointment . |
| 28 | For a few moments I was silent , feeling her sorrow , so discordant among the bright seasonal colours of this festive room . |
| 29 | Actually , I did n't like the way Diggs questioned me about what had happened , and for a few moments I thought he might have guessed , but my replies seemed to satisfy him . |
| 30 | For a few days I was too cowardly to tell Shadwell of Pyke 's offer , and that I was not going to do the Moliere . |