Example sentences of "for [art] [noun] i [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clothes buying is hardly Yuri 's preferred foreign pastime , though : ‘ When I travel , I prefer to sneak off to look at cars and buy accessories for the ones I have at home — a Volvo , an Audi , a Volkswagen , a Japanese Micro bus — and my favourite , an old Chevrolet . |
| 2 | As for my own research , there are some areas of it in which quantification has not been used because in these areas it was not necessary or appropriate for the purpose I had in mind ( see for example the discussions in chapter 5 ) . |
| 3 | I suppose it is not impossible that , if I had needed to make application to the authorities to undertake a dash to and from London for the purpose I had in mind , the brother-in-law 's request might by some happy chance have ‘ married up ’ with my own application . |
| 4 | They would repay me for the dowry I wasted on you , but I have no wish to be reminded of you . |
| 5 | It was a paeon of praise for the comic I read at the time — a tuppenny coloured one ! |
| 6 | Well I was t taking piano lessons , studying for the exams I went over the top , I had to give it up and I did n't go to school then for another eighteen months . |
| 7 | Deerhound and Saluki crosses are one popular arrival but these , in my view , are too big for the work I want from my lurcher . |
| 8 | ‘ For the moment I go to my office , and you — ? ’ |
| 9 | For the moment I cling to the idea that there are a relatively small number of cell-to-cell signals . |
| 10 | For the tourney I returned to the serving table to serve the knights who had just fought with a drink , and serve the ladies with bread , cheese and fruit . |
| 11 | I was always impressed by the quality of the students ' preparation for the lessons I observed on my weekly visits to them and by their willing capacity to learn by their mistakes . |
| 12 | I do not expect much joy from the Minister tonight , but I give warning that , for the time I remain on these Benches , with the label on which I came here eight and a half years ago — as a Labour Member of Parliament , albeit a Member who has a label beneath his name on the TV as an expelled Labour Member — I shall bring before the House the necessary measures not just to talk about the death of the poll tax but to bury it once and for all . |
| 13 | I do n't know whether he 's responsible for the offer I had from Bernard Remington-Hart this morning . |
| 14 | Other 's forgive me for the wrong doing , and for the harm I do to them , but it 's only God who can forgive my sin . |
| 15 | I WOULD like to convey my many thanks and praise to all the helpers , workers , nurses and priests , and to my Bishop , for the joy I received through their care and kindness at Lourdes . |
| 16 | I am well known here for the checkings I make of the movement of ships . ’ |
| 17 | My qualifications for the job I leave to you . " |
| 18 | Like here in the north of Australia , I 've been waiting for two days for the light I need for a shot of some valleys . |
| 19 | In 1985 there was a double objective for a rally I did with Ernie Guy for the American Bar Association in the Royal Albert Hall . |
| 20 | Always ready for a dip I leapt into the water and grabbed hold of an elderly lady with neat little curls and bifocals on the end of her nose . |
| 21 | Bernard Rhodes , for example , was always in the shop and he was always up for a chat I talked to him a lot and we struck up a rapport . |
| 22 | I am also grateful to the Friends of St Cecilia 's Hall and the Russell Collection for a grant I received from the J. J. K. Rhodes Bursary Fund towards the research for this paper . |
| 23 | For a while I rode with one group who were summoned by a crone , guarded by giant hounds . |
| 24 | For a while I stared into the clockface of an antique charity-box . |
| 25 | I remember when after it finished , I went back to for a while I went with ports and things like . |
| 26 | For a while I stood by the shattered doorway , wondering what to do . |
| 27 | For a while I sat on the edge of the bed until Benjamin joined me . |
| 28 | ‘ A shilling … no , two shilling for a wager I 've in mind . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ They had some panelling I wanted for a boat I did up , and some antique bathroom fittings . |
| 30 | For a term I lived in a room which looked out straight across to the tower . |