Example sentences of "[adv] [coord] [vb past] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For centuries civilised man thought poetry was the pinnacle he must reach for — ’ He caught himself suddenly and smiled for the first time Blanche had known him to , the embarrassed smile of a passionate devotee who suddenly discovers that everyone around him , whom he thought entranced by his obsession , was in fact sniggering behind his back . |
| 2 | Bishop Stratford , preaching on the text ‘ My head is sick ’ , announced the decision to depose the king nevertheless and asked for the assent of the commons . |
| 3 | Before Parr knocked on Jessica 's bedroom door , he stood outside and listened for a while . |
| 4 | So I covered him up decently and rang for an ambulance . |
| 5 | He tossed the jug aside and reached for the discarded bandage with his good arm . |
| 6 | She rolled onto a knee , then pushed herself upright and reached for the bottle of Sancerre in one complete , if clumsy , movement . |
| 7 | He allowed her to take the bag and then brushed past and headed for the door . |
| 8 | Owen watched it carefully and waited for the arm to tire again . |
| 9 | Sally did n't want another long day on the hill , so wished me well and watched for an hour as my headtorch beam got smaller and more erratic as I moved away across the glacier , interrogating the ice . |
| 10 | Geoffrey rolled his eyes dramatically and headed for the door . |
| 11 | It stayed there and grew for a long time , until it was a real baby . |
| 12 | When Martha had gone as well , Tim picked up the whisky he had poured earlier and stood for a long time in the hallway . |
| 13 | A year later she met someone else and asked for a divorce . |
| 14 | He dreamed of the bloodied face with the girl 's hair swinging over it , and of Annabel 's children , and then he surfaced again and went for a walk through Covent Garden fruit market , where Mr. Jenkins must already be at work . |
| 15 | She had neither the energy nor the time to feel irritated ; instead she took out her pen again and reached for a sheet of the museum 's paper . |
| 16 | He smiled , sat down at the table again and reached for the Bushmills . |
| 17 | I banked again and headed for the Bunker . |
| 18 | If only he had known enough , he might have come privately and hoped for a reward ! |
| 19 | The track continues uphill , soon levelling to pass between the walls of Fell lane , going forward but constricted for a long and uninteresting mile with Ingleborough out of sight and little worthy of note along the way apart from a large rock embedded in the lane and known as Giant 's Grave . |
| 20 | I spoke to him afterwards and apologized for the crowd , as if it was my fault ! |