Example sentences of "that [pron] [vb past] [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was so frightened that I went to look for the animal . |
| 2 | WHEN CHRIS OWEN , Head of Natural History Publications at the Natural History Museum , published a painting of mosses that I had done for the National Museum of Wales , I had no idea that it would lead to a further and more exciting job offer , so a call out of the blue from Chris was a welcome surprise . |
| 3 | And then it just became a drug that I had to take for every day use . |
| 4 | However , despite the fact that I had to pay for the survey , the society will not allow me to have a copy of the report . |
| 5 | I must have mentioned how expensive my activities were becoming , because Suzy suggested that I tried applying for a grant . |
| 6 | I found it so enjoyable that I wanted to register for the complete game . |
| 7 | The exchange between them had been painful , but there was something so honest and open about it that she felt freed for the first time in months from her painful awareness of him as a man . |
| 8 | To her great relief , however , Fabia subsequently discovered that she had asked for a quite delicious meal of venison with bacon , mushrooms and tomatoes . |
| 9 | It turned out that she had gone for a hill walk on her own with an agreed pick up point by him in the car . |
| 10 | It was true also that she gave English lessons and that she had applied for a full-time job as an English teacher in a small private school . |
| 11 | It seemed to Tallis that she had smouldered for a long time before finally the fire had taken hold . |
| 12 | It was impossible to do anything except admit something that she had known for a very long time . |
| 13 | To our relief , she missed out on all the formalities except for a perfunctory cry of ‘ GamBei ’ ( ‘ Down the hatch ’ ) and ‘ Greetings to our British friends ’ , and concentrated on tucking into the excellent meal — she gave the impression that she had come for the food and drink and nothing else . |
| 14 | It was so hot outside that she had settled for an orange cheesecloth caftan , which she 'd jacked in with a belt of linked gold hippos . |
| 15 | He bared her breasts ; put his tongue to them as his hands went down to the belt of her skirt , to find that she 'd changed for the trip , and was wearing jeans . |
| 16 | Not that she dared to hope for a reference from this place ! |
| 17 | Rosie gave him an affectionate kiss , and Shelley decided that she needed to go for a walk around the hospital , to leave the two together for a while . |
| 18 | Within the assembly council I personally valued your contributions the very courteous and thoughtful way in which you presented these and the courage with which you expressed at times the stand that you had to take for the interest of the Board . |
| 19 | I refer to my letter to you of 18 May last , in which I explained that the Agreement that you had signed for the above tape had not been signed on behalf of Oxford University Press , and that the duplicate copy which you had retained for your records needed to be returned to us for signature in Oxford before I could despatch your copy of the tape to you . |
| 20 | Klaasen 's contention that ‘ the only integration that has gone on so far has been among the top officials ’ seemed to be borne out by the fact that we had to wait for the penultimate game of the tours to seen the first nonwhite player take the field . |
| 21 | ‘ If I tell anyone that we stopped to look for a ghost , they 'll laugh at me , and if I was you , I would n't tell your mates either . |
| 22 | The leader of the MPs ' delegation , Sir Rhodes Boyson , the former local government minister , said afterwards that they had asked for an extra £650m to offset the sums which some local councils will have to raise in poll tax to the pay their contribution to the nation-wide poll tax safety net . |
| 23 | The CDU parliamentary group had accused Gies ( who had headed the CDU list but had not won a direct seat in the October 1990 Landtag election ) of obliging three other CDU delegates to resign after that election by alleging that they had worked for the former East German " Stasi " security police . |
| 24 | No further appeal was possible under Austrian law , but defence lawyers said that they wanted to apply for a retrial because of new expert evidence which cast doubt on their client 's conviction . |
| 25 | For instance : 70 per cent of all employees who were asked said that they liked working for the company . |
| 26 | By the mid-1980s the Thatcher government was coming under increasingly embarrassing criticism that it had opted for the second style of social policy . |
| 27 | It turns out that the Heston Club team has lost a title that it had held for the past few years . |
| 28 | But it was when he began finding the 26 mile 385 yard distance — which he can complete in two hours and 57 minutes — ‘ about right for starters ’ , that he began to look for a new challenge . |
| 29 | In the run-up to recognition , the commander of the Second Military District , General Milutin Kukanjao , hinted strongly that he wished to opt for the second option . |
| 30 | ‘ That he 'd arranged for the bank to cash cheques on his and my signature until all this is settled . ’ |