Example sentences of "and prayed [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DEREK Cook watched Coleraine go down to their fifth consecutive defeat — and prayed for a reprieve from manager Billy Sinclair . |
| 2 | ‘ The heat , ’ she lied , and prayed for the band to start playing , which it promptly did , this time a waltz . |
| 3 | Lee hurriedly asked Conrad to pour some wine , and prayed for the evening . |
| 4 | Then I remembered that , in the car was the last red rose from Bayeux — I placed it on the rough ground outside the house , and prayed for the family whose happy , safe home it had once been . |
| 5 | It was a room no-one ever came into , except the dead woman 's husband , who visited it religiously every Sunday morning before Mass , locking himself in for an hour , while , Ellie guessed , he dusted and tidied the shrine he had created , and prayed for the soul of the one departed . |
| 6 | On nights like this all Fontanellato was out , defying the curfew , and we all prayed that it would soon end and prayed for the people who lived there . |
| 7 | He foresaw a war and prayed for the victory of his people . |
| 8 | She sat with the blood thudding in her ears , just as it used to do when her mother began a tirade , and prayed for the impossible , for the carriage to be overturned , for it to be the wrong night , for her to develop a sudden and dangerous illness . |
| 9 | I learned that my parents had got to London and prayed for the day I 'd be able to see them . |
| 10 | Gabriel watched him go , and prayed for the grass to roll over him and swallow him up , like the Red Sea engulfing the Egyptian charioteers as they chased the Children of Israel . |
| 11 | While in Amritsar he visited and prayed at the Golden Temple , Sikhism 's most hallowed shrine which had been the subject in 1984 of an Army assault [ see pp. 33223-24 ] , in a gesture of reconciliation . |
| 12 | And stood very still and waited — and prayed to every god he had ever heard of that the Robemaker would not utilise the dread Stroicim Inchinn and read into his mind . |
| 13 | Mr Roberts buried him and prayed over the grave . |
| 14 | Quite suddenly , she was overcome with yearning for Harry , and prayed in a way she had never prayed before . |
| 15 | That night , disregarding the jeers of his companions , he wrestled and prayed in the barrack room until he found peace with God . |