Example sentences of "this for [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 ‘ I 've accepted that I can do this for a certain amount of time .
2 It already seems obvious that Mr Kinnock will be the earliest beneficiary , and this for a simple reason .
3 I no longer believe — nor do I desire — that Semiology should be a simple science , a positive science , and this for a primordial reason : it is the responsibility of semiology … to question its own discourse … finally , science knows no site of security , and in this it must acknowledge itself as writing .
4 I can say without embarrassment that I have been training for this for a long time , that I have learned to breathe the rarefied air , that I now know when to stand still and when to move forward , when to attack and when to retreat , when to leave a problem to resolve itself and when to go on working at it till the solution emerges .
5 Had been dreaming about this for a long time , he wrote .
6 Again , we have paid lip-service to this for a long time , but it has not been an easy ideal to achieve .
7 I 've been meaning to say this for a long time , ’ said Susan , with an assumption of severity which moved her sister to ribald mirth .
8 Sorry for the long letter , but I 've been itching to write this for a long time .
9 The department 's going to hear about this for a long time . ’
10 " I have advocated this for a long time " , he declared , " and now I see that some of the shipowners are inclined to agree to it .
11 They stayed together like this for a long time .
12 I know you 've thought about this for a long time , ’ he hissed , gripping her shoulders tightly to prevent movement .
13 They remained like this for a long time .
14 I thought about this for a long time and slowly I realized that I was not extraordinary in this .
15 ‘ This is n't a sudden change of course — we 've been working on this for a long time and over the last five years have moved our portfolio towards lower cost exploration areas .
16 I was thought of as rather gallant and dashing , and I played on this for a long time , emphasizing the cruelty and hardship aspects of the camp , and skating over the boredom and hunger , which were what I chiefly remembered .
17 Stars will remain stable like this for a long time , with heat from the nuclear reactions balancing the gravitational attraction .
18 I do this for a long time .
19 Has not the time come at last — some of us have been saying this for a long time — for my right hon. Friend , or his successor , to consider seriously the alternative policy that many have advocated : administrative devolution , or short-term integration ?
20 I 've been wanting to say this for a long time . ’
21 Now people have been looking at this for a long time .
22 ‘ We have wanted something like this for a long time . ’
23 I do n't think he will be able to , like this for a long time .
24 she obviously did n't know this for a long time and then one day I said to her , well , it was lovely meal and all that but I do think your mark-up on the wine is scandalous !
25 They 've known they 've known about this for a fair while .
26 He considered this for a short time and concluded that he had to make a public stand for those things which he believed .
27 Someone tried to organise a concert party , and there was a great deal of enthusiasm for this for a short time .
28 But he 's not the sort of person that 'll say ah yeah we 've been doing this for a little while , why do n't we just take off and go somewhere and fuck it , fuck it , let's just go and do something together he 's the sort of person that they would settle down into this safe little life and , which would n't actually be that safe for Vanessa , it 'd be very very you know , much what Dangerous wants to do .
29 How about this for a cheeky goal … skipper Chris Myers caught Town asleep with a quickly taken free kick …
30 And then the Ricos-omes who wished ill to the Cid , had the way open to do him evil with the King , and they said to the King , Sir Ruydiez hath broken your faith , and the oath and promise which you made to the King of Toledo : and he hath done this for no other reason but that the Moors of Toledo may fall upon us here , and slay , both you and us .
  Next page