Example sentences of "for [art] spell " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most working men claimed to know someone who had once been given a trial or had been ‘ on the books ’ of a club for a spell . |
| 2 | Silence descended for a spell , then Morton pushed over a gilt-edged square of card . |
| 3 | Incidentally readers of a more literary bent will be interested to know that the poet W B Yeats lived next door to Crapper for a spell but fails to record the fact in his memoirs . |
| 4 | The Smiths were priming themselves for a spell in the top five . |
| 5 | If there is no other system of air-conditioning , and the window can not be open all the time because of draughts or security , it should at least be opened once or twice a day for a spell . |
| 6 | Even so , I have noticed that the feeding pattern still follows the usual course in that you catch barbel for a spell ( maybe only one or two fish ) then nothing for a spell , and so on . |
| 7 | Even so , I have noticed that the feeding pattern still follows the usual course in that you catch barbel for a spell ( maybe only one or two fish ) then nothing for a spell , and so on . |
| 8 | The novel life abroad made Frances disenchanted with Britain when she returned home for a spell : |
| 9 | The alternative plan is to get away from road racing for a spell and use the time to do some track training , with the idea of running track races through the summer months . |
| 10 | In the early 1970s , Clyde Best , a Bermudan , played for a spell with West Ham and , I am told by one of his former team mates , was made to feel isolated by fellow players . |
| 11 | Athletics continued to prosper by the increasing infusion of blacks into sprint and jumping events , though it was a decathlete , Daley Thompson , who , in 1980 , became the most successful black British-based athlete since Arthur Wint , by winning an Olympic gold medal and , for a spell , holding the world 's decathlon record . |
| 12 | For a spell , its US subsidiary was publicly traded on NASDAQ , but the company bought the shares back in again . |
| 13 | In a country where , as a popular song puts it , ‘ every son is born a soldier ’ and turns out each year for a spell of military service until he is well into middle age , the army has long been regarded as an essential part of the country 's armed neutrality . |
| 14 | Over the years the pattern of recruitment changed with rising Home Office officials being seconded as Commissioners for a spell on their way to the top in Whitehall . |
| 15 | The off-duty fulmar had returned to relieve his/ her partner for a spell from the shared task of egg incubation . |
| 16 | By deciding in late 1987 to take my daughter to Budapest 's Peto Institute for a spell of conductive education I ‘ contributed to the distressing sight of individual and groups of parents pursuing the latest fashionable cure for their child 's … disability ’ — ; in her case , cerebral palsy . |
| 17 | I was so tired I had to get off my bike twice on the way up to Creeting and sit on the side of the road in the snow for a spell before I could go on . |
| 18 | She is one of a new breed of high-flying police officers who are giving up their regular beat for a spell in industry . |
| 19 | The master , A. D. Lindsay ( later first Baron Lindsay of Birker , q.v. ) , encouraged him to work for a spell ( 1927–8 ) at a Quaker settlement for the unemployed in the Rhondda Valley — an experience which made a deep impression . |
| 20 | I need you back home for a spell . ’ |
| 21 | You take the wheel for a spell . ’ |
| 22 | Then Down put some useful moves together and did look dangerous for a spell . |
| 23 | But both Poland and Hungary are heading for a spell of power-sharing and , who knows , maybe even genuine democracy by the mid-1990s . |
| 24 | My grandfather was with Toomey for a spell and with Wombwell and Tom Nomman . ’ |
| 25 | The list of British craft union leaders of this period is filled with men who worked for a spell in the United States or somewhere else overseas , as they might have worked for a spell in Newcastle or Barrow-in-Furness . |
| 26 | The list of British craft union leaders of this period is filled with men who worked for a spell in the United States or somewhere else overseas , as they might have worked for a spell in Newcastle or Barrow-in-Furness . |
| 27 | Maybe we should be asking whether Speed should n't be sidelined for a spell , as he is a bit anonymous at times . |
| 28 | Er would the factories between them be able to help with that for a spell Er one of the things that I 'm slightly concerned about is if you 've only got old buffers on the stand erm rather than younger people |
| 29 | Guy supplied grimly , dropping a possessive kiss on her mouth , ‘ Since I arrived in St Lucia for a spell of solitary soul-searching , and an evil-tempered harpy with a mop of red hair and no clothes on leapt off my bed and started calling me rude names … ’ |
| 30 | LINFORD Christie flew out to Lanzarote yesterday for a spell of sunshine training , cheered by a rapid return to winning ways at Crystal Palace . |