Example sentences of "with [pron] [noun] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I groped around with my foot for the table-leg and pressed down hard until the spasm gradually subsided . |
| 2 | Fortunately their approach coincided with my plans for a charitable foundation to buy art for Britain . |
| 3 | My eyes were very bad , and I had to pay a young curate to help me with my work for the church . |
| 4 | I 'm off with my family for a week 's holiday in Cornwall and Jenny is hoping to take advantage of my absence to get some rest so the office will be ‘ manned ’ all next week by Heidi , though Jenny will be around at home . |
| 5 | Mum was staying in Geneva with my brother for a week . |
| 6 | Certainly she presented me with my medal for the 100 metres and as I stood on the plinth she did not bat an eyelid . |
| 7 | I do n't remember what the occasion was — maybe it was my first day at school , or maybe I was staying with my aunt for a few days … ’ |
| 8 | And that night of course in The Bar we were all saying , oh god when she jumps into the truck , how fabulous was that , it just makes you want to cheer ; and Boy thought again , well that is how life is , that is how I feel , that is how I feel when I 'm leaving the bar with my husband for the night , my husband-to-be , that 's just what I think when I 'm getting into his car , Goodbye Father , Goodbye . |
| 9 | After my experience with the Apricot Sunsets I was playing safe with my digestion for a while . |
| 10 | There was the most profound admiration mingled with her affection for the elder sister who had brought her up ever since their mother 's death , twelve years ago . |
| 11 | Dorothy went on with her work for a minute and then asked : ‘ Isobel , what happens to these kids , supposing they do n't drop themselves over the railway bridge in sheer despair ? ’ |
| 12 | At first our association was concerned with her scripts for the CBC broadcasts , and I found her most amenable to work with . |
| 13 | The event commenced with Lorna entertaining the ladies on the terrace , currently with her plans for a flower border around the pool , while the men retired to the library with Robert for Scotch and business talk . |
| 14 | She sensed there was no use reiterating that making men ‘ crazy ’ for her was not in keeping with her plans for a perfect summer . |
| 15 | After struggling with her composure for a moment , Paige began gathering up the odd assortment of utensils they had used . |
| 16 | ‘ Would Madame honour me with her company for a small libation ? ’ he roared on the staircase . |
| 17 | We lived with her parents for a short while before she had the baby . |
| 18 | In addition to seeing the plaintiff in court , I have had the advantage of seeing a video , key one , showing examples of her daily routine taken on the tenth of May nineteen ninety one after she had been at home with her parents for a year . |
| 19 | Without caring what he thought , she threaded her fingers tenderly through the thick , short waves of hair at the back of his head , probing gently with her fingertips for the already swelling lump . |
| 20 | She 's been going out with her boyfriend for a year today and they get on so well ! |
| 21 | The girl noticed Wightman while waiting with her boyfriend for the last train . |
| 22 | She bumped into Charlie later on , as she was heading out with her list for the coffee-shop order . |
| 23 | But on another level the linguistic acrobatics which the novel displays provide Mira with verbal strategies that enable her to cope with her fear for the future and her personal situation in the present . |
| 24 | Although , in manners bound , he held and played with her hand for the rest of the drive home , he felt that he could have done instead with a nice talk about hunting . |
| 25 | At last she wrote to Sir John Merchiston , who was a remote cousin , but whom she had known when she came as a débutante to visit here with her family for the hunting . ’ |
| 26 | Loyalty to her clerical superiors , to the Church and all it stood for , battled with her contempt for the way in which the senior clergy had behaved both to herself and to Amy . |
| 27 | It was the first step in the emotional detachment that would dominate her relations with her mother for the rest of her life . |
| 28 | Despite living with her mother for the past eight years , she saw her foster parents every other weekend and went on holidays with them . |
| 29 | Because you see with her eyes for a moment , share her vision , escape yourself — it renews and twists the love , because it reminds you you do n't know her , do n't own her . |
| 30 | Her marriage to Archibald earl of Angus — whose name , with unwitting appropriateness , she spelt ‘ Anguisshe ’ — and subsequent divorce , combined with her demands for a place in political life , produced on one occasion the agonized response that she might have it if only she would be ‘ a good Scots woman ’ , and created continuing and profoundly irritating headaches for those who were trying to control Scottish affairs . |