Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] and [verb] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I might just feign insanity some day and come back for another cup of that damned fine coffee . ’ |
| 2 | She negotiated with Henry and the Residential Centre and fixed up for him to attend the scheme for three days a week . |
| 3 | He sucked in lungfuls of the cool fresh air and looked around for human habitation . |
| 4 | Still , a certain chiaroscuro grimness attached to their surreal exchange and cries out for some brainless , comic intervention . |
| 5 | And then the old keeper used to come round and see that we were all right and they 'd be there till the following day and carry on for about three or four weeks you see . |
| 6 | I collect a dozen or so from the dewy grass in the early morning and set off for a few hours ' chubbing , knowing I am going to catch several fish , providing , of course , the weather and water conditions are favourable . |
| 7 | St Albans held on for the rest of the match to win 2–1 and take the ladies ' title for the second time and make up for four previous final defeats by Mutineers . |
| 8 | Then he suddenly remembered Sophia Ainger 's sister , the rather odd young woman he had met in Bloomsbury that evening and taken out for a drink . |
| 9 | I gave it a wide berth and went to sit on the rug , but of course it had gone so I sat on one of the chairs instead , had a good long wash and settled down for a nap . |
| 10 | Ruth surveyed the freshly-turned earth and looked around for a flower she could place on the grave , but it was the last day of December and there was nothing in bloom . |
| 11 | He is a meticulous writer and turns up for filming knowing his lines perfectly . |
| 12 | She drew aside the curtain of a small window and stood back for me to see the picture thus revealed . |
| 13 | Eliot produced a single page of notes from his pocket which he placed before him on the small table and brooded over for a while ; but when he started , he managed to pack in , during 45 minutes or so , a great deal of sound sense on the subject of drama and especially on the relation of drama to religion . |
| 14 | But he said that the amnesty would not cover players who had been shown the red card and sent off for serious offences during qualifying games . |
| 15 | But he said that the amnesty would not cover players who had been shown the red card and sent off for serious offences during qualifying games . |
| 16 | They are of two sorts — those which are an integral part of the book , printed on the same paper and gathered up for binding with the rest of the sections ( though they will usually be paged separately ) ; and leaves or sections printed separately , sometimes on different paper altogether , which may even be of a different size . |
| 17 | We 've a taster of what 's in the latest issue in our Practical Running section and look out for our generous subscription offers in this issue . |
| 18 | You must go out on a starry night and walk about for half an hour trying to see the sky in terms of the old ( Ptolemaic ) cosmology . |
| 19 | Bundespost Telekom says that operating profit in 1992 fell 4.6% to the equivalent of $4,157m ; after Telekom has made its required subvention to the federal government and its two loss-making sister units , it will be left with nothing to add to reserves — it is required by law to transfer 10 pct of its annual turnover to the federal government and to make up for losses at the Postdienst mail service and Postbank postal banking unit , Reuter notes . |
| 20 | He wiped round his plate with a chunk of bread , emitted a satisfied sigh and looked around for his coffee . |
| 21 | Having been stung in a similar situation in their last league game when Gregor McKechnie called their bluff over a kickable penalty and scuttled in for a try , Tukalo tried to do likewise after Joe Munro had been caught offside in the Watsonian 22 , as Scott Hastings was called to arms to police Linton . |