Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [noun] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | So strong was this hankering for the Gothic and everything that went with it that many of them refused even to look at nature first-hand , but looked at it through a special lens called a Claude-glass , Claude being a French painter of the Gothic who designed his glass especially for looking at ancient ruins and alpine chasms . |
| 2 | More surprisingly , Buus and Annibale Padovano , organists at St. Mark 's , composed their ricercari originally for four solo instruments — Buus 's two books in 1547 and 1549 and Annibale 's in 1556 — and Buus 's sole Intabolatura d'Organo ( also 1549 ) contains only four pieces : ornamented transcriptions of four of the other ricercari obviously made for the use of the ‘ molto nobile e vertuoso giovane ’ to whom they are dedicated . |
| 3 | He studied her face closely for the effect of this extraordinary proposal . |
| 4 | They arranged to come that way again next Sunday and then turned their horses eastwards for the long ride home . |
| 5 | He shook his arm vigorously for more than a minute , but it was impossible to tell in the uneven twilight whether it dropped out or not . |
| 6 | Gareth smiled but did not speak , as he bent and clasped his hands together for her to mount her mare . |
| 7 | His own competent and useful abridgement served its purpose well for nearly seventy years . |
| 8 | Helen pressed her lips together for a moment then said quietly , ‘ My place is with Tony , Mother , ’ and left as soon as she could . |
| 9 | Knee : Protect your groin and throat , yell , and thrust your hip forward for extra power . |
| 10 | He watched her face thoughtfully for a moment . |
| 11 | He stood back then , and let her go , and she mounted the first flight , and the second , planting her fashionable square heels firmly on the beautiful old wood , which was austerely and very properly without covering , and recorded her movements accurately for anyone listening below . |
| 12 | Hereford lost their grip just for a second , but that was long enough for Phil Chard to get one back for the cobblers . |
| 13 | She blinked and scoured her brain desperately for a neutral topic of conversation to deflect his attention , but the question which emerged proved far from neutral . |
| 14 | He grabbed her arms then for answer and hauled her unceremoniously to her feet . |
| 15 | She watched him search helplessly for a reply , the hysteria rising within her that he might have ruined her chances of being accepted by her family . |
| 16 | ‘ Ah — ’ He examined his footwear thoughtfully for a moment . |
| 17 | A proposed cut in wages was doubled , they were charged 25 pence for the half-time orange and were required to leave a £35 deposit when they took their kit home for washing . |
| 18 | Rose of Lima herself did not write her memoirs , or anything else , so her subjective understanding of this painful phenomenon is not really known ; what is known is that she offered her life explicitly for the conversion and salvation of those suffering people — one of the reasons , obviously , why she later seemed an appropriate patron for the New World . |
| 19 | He had the singular good fortune not to die in the trenches , but the experience undermined his health severely for all that . |
| 20 | The sharp cold , after his warm exertions , took his breath away for a moment as he hung on the stern of the canoe , but as soon as he had recovered his breath , the Commander struck out for the shore in a strong breaststroke that did not disturb the phosphorescence more than he could help , and barely ruffled the water . |
| 21 | He paused , bit his lip lightly for a second , " But I do n't know what you 're doing . |
| 22 | He twirled his keys airily for all to see , gave Isambard 's body-squire an amiable good night , and giggled like a girl as soon as they were past . |
| 23 | After the two cross-examinations , lasting perhaps ten or fifteen minutes in all , the two counsel put their heads together for a minute , and then one of them addresses the rest of the gathering , who have acted as jury , and submits that the alibi has been broken down because of this and that discrepancy . |
| 24 | He joined the Puffin Bookshop in the summer of 1985 and quickly established himself as someone with a deep interest in books for children , especially for the very young , and won the hearts of customers , fellow members of staff and publishers visiting the shop , not to mention the many authors and illustrators who gave their time freely for the events and signings at the bookshop . |
| 25 | THE EUROPEAN Commission of Human Rights gave its permission yesterday for three newspapers to pursue a claim that the UK broke freedom of expression guarantees during the Spycatcher affair . |
| 26 | She shut her eyes tight for a second behind her spectacles , got a grip on herself , and said firmly : ‘ Some books for tomorrow . ’ |
| 27 | Now she saved her animus largely for the council , which seemed unfair , since it had permitted her to buy for almost nothing the house which her mother had rented and given her a grant for improvements . |
| 28 | Naturally , my father would have felt this loss keenly ; but to make matters worse the usual comfort a father has in these situations — that is , the notion that his son gave his life gloriously for king and country — was sullied by the fact that my brother had perished in a particularly infamous manoeuvre . |
| 29 | just happened to go in one day for some meat and I got me bacon there for Christmas , that 's what I went in for were n't it ? |
| 30 | I closed my eyes tight for once and placed my palms together . |