Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] the [noun] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | horse racing fans from all over the country came to the Cotswolds yesterday for a rather special day … |
| 2 | horse racing fans from all over the country came to the Cotswolds yesterday for a rather special day … |
| 3 | ‘ You 're not saying he came to the salon just for conversation ? ’ |
| 4 | We less poetic mortals sat for a while in the afternoon sunlight and shadow , then we turned down the path again for a pot of tea and a scone for myself and Eddy and a biscuit for Bill before we began the road walk back to the car . |
| 5 | Robert Clive had family ties with Banque Worms , an influential French private bank , and worked in the City mainly for the clearers , but also had close working relationships with companies such as Distillers and Bowater . |
| 6 | They then worked on the script together for a few months before joining Peckinpah in England , where he was busy with pre-production . |
| 7 | But then she got married and we lived down the road there for a while till they repaired these , they made these There was very old houses these are . |
| 8 | ‘ I looked after the vines here for Fabien 's sake , that 's all , because he asked me to . |
| 9 | Sunday dawned dry and we gathered in the church again for morning prayer ; followed by breakfast . |
| 10 | The conservation corps of the YTS were clearing a nearby churchyard , and every lunchtime , the foreman pulled out an armchair which he kept in the church specially for the purpose , and had an hour 's sleep in the churchyard . |
| 11 | But at home Mr Yeltsin 's main rival , the parliamentary chairman Ruslan Khasbulatov , made it clear that the power struggle was far from over , and outside the parliament , thousands of protesters took to the streets both for and against the president . |
| 12 | He answered prayer not in the way I sought , Nor in the way that I thought he ought , But in his own good way , and I could see , He answered in the fashion best for me . |
| 13 | People flocked to the zoo less for the fauna than for the door-prize after the daily drawing of a cardboard bicho . |
| 14 | Ilsa and I wrote and spoke on the phone occasionally for a number of years . |
| 15 | Mr Ashdown descended on the area yesterday for the third time in his marathon campaign amid growing recognition among Tories that the South-West could prove their Achilles ' heel , a danger underlined by the Press Association opinion poll which showed a swing against the Conservatives in the region of six per cent . |