Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although I duly applied for the Fellowship , I was unsuccessful , no doubt to my lasting benefit , as similar failures have served to prove . |
| 2 | There was a red light up , and he was stopped by a policeman as he reached the opposite pavement and duly asked for the appropriate number of marks . |
| 3 | This might throw light on his uncomplimentary nickname too , and on how , as the charter S 933 of 1014 reveals , " the attacks and plunderings of the evil Danes " gave him possession of a Dorset estate of the church of Sherborne , which he eventually sold for a great price in gold and silver to a friend of the monks , who returned it to them . |
| 4 | Blue eyeshadow , much reviled for the past five years , is back at Chanel , Lancôme and Rubinstein and has never been out at Lauder — Mrs Lauder is a firm believer in the power of blue . |
| 5 | Treasury Counsel announced that the Secretary of State for the Environment was now inclined to take the view that the statue was not part of the listed building , and so asked for an adjournment . |
| 6 | They sensibly asked for a new kettle but were told that they could not have one because cuts meant that no new equipment or furniture of any kind was available . |
| 7 | In the late 1960s and the early 1970s , Greimas , Todorov , Genette , and Barthes all argued for the autonomy of narrative theory with respect to its object . |
| 8 | Stead 's dramatisation of the issue of sexual exploitation not only stilled for the moment many fundamental conflicts of interest between participants in the agitation , but it also obscured the contradictions inherent in the ideology that informed this agitation against child prostitution . |
| 9 | Why can I read you like a book , when we only met for the first time four days ago ? |
| 10 | Worktwice , the rival firm which now has the fax number , say it merely applied for the fax number because it was told it had become available and are confident British Telecom acted in a right and proper manner . |
| 11 | Mr Nasta has used two large rooms to display the works , all of them privately owned and personally lent for the occasion . |
| 12 | A news item in 1988 concerning a 590cm. ( approximately 19ft. ) long pilot whale washed up at Talland Bay recalls other sea mammals washed up on our coastline , one of which apparently qualified for a church burial . |
| 13 | And I never much cared for the bumptious , muscular side of The Smiths , so I welcome the spaciness Vini Reilly brings as new guitarist , whether it 's the lurid wig-out of ‘ Alsatian Cousin' or the dew-and-moonbeam iridescence of ‘ Late Night , Maudlin Street ’ . |
| 14 | She said in a small voice , ‘ She told me that you only cared for the vines . |
| 15 | and with a broken heart they dive down gently headed for the earth |
| 16 | He only entered for the Foreign Office and the block plan , with a total of ten drawings , and was awarded one of the fifth prizes for his Foreign Office design . |
| 17 | If anything , its additional colours brought extra glitter to the music , and this quality was certainly seized upon by the London Sinfonietta under Elgar Howarth , who eagerly compensated for the pianist 's lack of a trenchant or subtle delivery . |
| 18 | ‘ I only came for a glass of water . |
| 19 | Yeah , oh cos that 's when she said Frank , Frank only came for a short while or something ? |
| 20 | As it turned out , he only came for the funeral . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ But you obviously plumped for the army . ’ |
| 22 | We only broke for the night on the promise of a further meeting next day together with social security officials . |
| 23 | You know he only went to he only went for a pee you know what I mean that cramming five pound and ten pound deals at him , and he 's going , No you can , you know . |
| 24 | Feldstein the dissident , Chernayev the thief , Poshekhonov the fraud , all reached for the Englishman as if to draw out some spark of friendship . |
| 25 | He turned up at the dance studio in a pair of very skimpy tight shorts and observing that everyone else was very white and wore towelling track suits , and seeing that he was very tall and very naked , got nervous so went for a walk and smoked a joint . |
| 26 | Earlier on , the band had proved their worth on the college snooker table — much to the dismay of the Students ' Union security staff , who obviously feared for the state of the green baize — and drummer Steve Goodwin showed a ruthless streak on the pinball machine . |
| 27 | Earlier on , the band had proved their worth on the college snooker table — much to the dismay of the Students ' Union security staff , who obviously feared for the state of the green baize — and drummer Steve Goodwin showed a ruthless streak on the pinball machine . |
| 28 | I only looked for the sake of form . |
| 29 | Normally I only Listened for the first couple of minutes at a reading ; either I am preoccupied by having to read later myself , or some image causes my mind to drift away ; but N'dosi had a powerful , hypnotic voice and his poetry sparkled with fresh , delightful metaphors . |
| 30 | As a young actor you obviously went for a great deal of variety in characters and accents . |