Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [pers pn] [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But within this context , Wilkins ' elegant stuccoed facades will be retained , and an important landmark has been saved and will look far more handsome and dignified than it has for many years . |
| 2 | You need some sort of order and some sort of security , it makes your mind so sort of universal that you look for some sort of order … ’ |
| 3 | FREE when you send for 112 ROCK'N'ROLL GREATS … |
| 4 | She was sitting back relaxedly and looking more contented than she had for some time . |
| 5 | She was a little overweight , her hands a touch too pudgy when she reached for various books and took them from the shelves . |
| 6 | David Lloyd , his captain at Lancashire , tells a story that once in a Gillette Cup match against Gloucestershire at Old Trafford , Clive Lloyd edged a ball from Mike Procter so hard that it went for six . |
| 7 | Throughout the proceedings people were conscious that they spoke for all Zuwaya , addressing each other formally as ‘ You , Zuwayi there ’ and referred to themselves collectively as ‘ We Zuwaya ’ . |
| 8 | They 're ambitious and they strive for upward social mobility . |
| 9 | Their findings therefore seemed puzzling and they looked for possible explanations . |
| 10 | Meredith watched the long , well-manicured fingers gripping the glass until his joints showed white and she thought for one crazy moment that it was going to break into shards . |
| 11 | They 're bigger than us , they stand for a bigger establishment than we do , like , we 're just little and they stand for bigger things , and you try to get your own back . |
| 12 | Incredible though it seems for such an intelligent man , Carter 's principal error at the beginning was to assume that once the underlying rationale of his energy programme had been explained to , and absorbed by the public , opposition would melt away . |
| 13 | I am sure that I speak for all district society presidents when I say that this is just not true . |
| 14 | As we have emphasized earlier , the objectives of the firm become much more complex once we allow for incomplete markets and for differences between shareholders in their beliefs and objectives . |
| 15 | The heaters that can kill — warning to elderly as they search for cheap fuel |
| 16 | When I stayed with my husband and children at the Holcombe Hotel in Oxfordshire on the Great Escapes scheme this summer I was told I would get free accommodation as long as I stayed for two nights and paid for dinner and breakfast at a cost of £33.20 each per day . |
| 17 | She was a bit heavy-handed and we kangaroo-hopped for ten miles to a garage . |
| 18 | You bought it and bought it , that 's it , not same as they do with yeah with them looking for bloody sponsors unheard and them looking for bloody sponsors eh ? |
| 19 | He was still smiling as he reached for another claim-form . |
| 20 | It seems we got a irregularity here — Mr Stein knows he goin' to be workin' here long-term but he apply for short-term only . ’ |
| 21 | and you can go on it anywhere as far as you like for forty pence . |
| 22 | Born at Cardross , Dumbartonshire , he lost his hearing in infancy through illness and was admitted at the age of 8 into the Glasgow Institution for the Deaf and Dumb where he remained for seven years . |
| 23 | At least , that was the thought I had , but for some reason I must have found it very nice because I stayed for 30 years ! ’ |
| 24 | The grass is either permanent or it remains for several years as a long ley . |
| 25 | Janine nodded and left the flat , feeling lighter hearted than she had for many days . |
| 26 | I would feel bad if I knew for certain that someone was going to cosh me with a lead pipe on January 15 of that year . |
| 27 | This conclusion may not remain universally true when we allow for heterogeneous capital ; none the less , the possibility remains that shifting may take place and we need to check when considering policy proposals the likelihood of this actually happening . |