Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [noun prp] [vb past] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | She reached for the .38 jammed into her waistband , trying to pull it free as Stark grabbed for her throat . |
| 2 | Patrick was three months old when Sarah knew for sure that she would have James 's child before the year was out . |
| 3 | Caroline was only a few days old when Wordsworth left for home , and during 1793 , marooned in England without an income or particular hopes of finding one , he learned helplessly of the rise of the Terror in France following the overthrow of the Girondins in June that year . |
| 4 | Four attempts proved the deviation impossible and McFall prepared for a spot of slip fielding . |
| 5 | Klemkosky and Lee looked for a mispricing every ten minutes and found that , even for the arbitrageurs with the largest no-arbitrage band ( taxed institutional investors ) , the no-arbitrage band was violated 5% of the time . |
| 6 | A clash with Constantius II was inevitable and Magnentius prepared for this immediately by raising a large army with substantial aid obtained from and freely given by the provincials , especially those in Gaul and Britain . |
| 7 | Surprisingly , it did not feel too cold and Endill stood for a moment trying to see the end of it but it disappeared into darkness . |
| 8 | Osep brought up the piebald that Burun used for riding when he was with the clan , and Burun mounted . |
| 9 | Giles Hawick suddenly looked tired and McLeish felt for him , as he promised to keep him in touch with their investigations . |
| 10 | he used an illustration of the pig , you know you can polish the pig up , you can clean it , you can scrub it , you can oh de cologne it , you can do all sorts of things with it , you can tie a nice pink ribbon around it and you can put it in a palace , but it 's still a pig and it lives like a pig and you can cl and no matter how clean you 've made it , it 'll soon find some dirt to wallow in and the ribbon might make it look nice in the show ground but it does n't make any difference to its nature and so it is with us and so Jesus did n't start on the outside , but he starts at the inside he deals with the route of the problem , in One Corinthians chapter fifteen and in verse three it says for I deliver to you as a first importance , this is the basic thing , he says to them this was the first thing that I said to you because it was the most important that Christ died for our sins , according to the scripture , what ever else Christ gives to us , what ever else he does for us , what ever else the gospel produces , the basic , the most important , the fundamental thing is that Christ died for our sins . |
| 11 | Soft music filled Helen 's rooms , and she and Edward looked so happy that Sophie rejoiced for them . |
| 12 | We heard the door behind us open but Benjamin shouted for everyone to stay out . |
| 13 | And Eliot is still the massive figure that must be circumvented if we are to see Virgil as having exerted a powerful influence on our modern poetry in ways more partial , devious and oblique than Eliot allowed for . |
| 14 | In the output equation the unpredictable monetary growth variables do have a significant , positive effect on real output , although the impacts of and are less significant than Barro found for the US . |
| 15 | They were both astonished and Lomas stopped for a moment to stare at the floor . |
| 16 | Willie at last chose a comic with his sweet and Tom paid for them . |
| 17 | Hare did admit to Ian Wright , who caddied for Seve Ballesteros , that he would feel intimidated if Wright carried for him at La Manga . |
| 18 | Hare did admit to Ian Wright , who caddied for Seve Ballesteros , that he would feel intimidated if Wright carried for him at La Manga . |
| 19 | I was duly astonished when Harley asked for his putter and sent Derek Jefferson ahead to hold the flag . |