Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [vb past] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | This applies particularly to stones designed for young people but because they are still growing and changing themselves , the moral and psychological lessons must not be rigid or overstrained for these young readers . |
| 2 | He prepared the altar for Mass , opened the-door and waited for the small trickle of his congregation to enter . |
| 3 | I would have got the answer wrong and plumped for the gin riots . |
| 4 | We 've had four three-legged dogs over the years : Bless-her , who was born with a hind leg missing ; Belle whose front leg was amputated at seven weeks because of a ligament problem ; Tulley , a road accident victim who came to us at nine months old and fought for 18 months to keep his damaged front leg . |
| 5 | Children employed by such as William Douglas at his cotton mill in Salford were often taken from the workhouse at six or seven years old and worked for long hours , and were sometimes so ill-treated that they committed suicide . |
| 6 | However , Gunda struggled free and ran for her life ; but the giant set Wolfhead on her and the dog pulled her down and began mauling her . |
| 7 | He seemed embarrassed and stammered for the first time in his English . |
| 8 | I went back into the club proper and headed for the ‘ phone . |
| 9 | If they were assertive and asked for what they wanted rather than ‘ manipulated ’ , they would in many cases be more successful . |
| 10 | Craig hurried up the stairs as the knocking became more insistent and paused for a moment staring back to the hallway . |
| 11 | It 's just a question of whether the two of them set off home together or whether he left early and waited for her . " |
| 12 | Mr Timms resigned but Mr Cooke denied he had been dishonest and stayed for two years until he was fired in August last year . |
| 13 | Some of the modem homes are too clinical , impersonal and routinized for comfort . |
| 14 | ‘ I was very upset and felt for those players who played , ’ Durie said . |
| 15 | The microtitre plates were washed thoroughly with PBS-Tween and incubated for another 30 minutes with alkaline-phospatase ( ALP ) conjungated rabbit anti-human γ chain or rabbit anti human α chain antisera ( Dako , Glostrup , Denmark ) diluted 1:400 in PBS-Tween . |
| 16 | Every file , every data sheet on the exiles and émigrés who 'd caused trouble over the past thirty years was computerized and collated for him . |
| 17 | She swallowed hard and waited for the ringing in her head to clear and for the room to steady once more , then , summoning all of her courage , she looked at him with icy contempt . |
| 18 | Plummer swallowed hard and froze for long seconds . |
| 19 | He swallowed hard and headed for the door that opened out into the hall . |
| 20 | At five hundred feet he banked hard and headed for the balloons . |
| 21 | The conversation broke off sharply when he became edgy and scrambled for cover , telling her to go away . |
| 22 | She turned white and rang for a doctor . |
| 23 | We stared at the water which was pretty choppy and waited for the Indian to surface but he never did . |
| 24 | She looked young and pretty and relaxed for the first part of the evening until a ghastly sense of anti-climax set in when she realized that many of the young English guests had arrived well watered and rowdy after their coach trip , soon to become hideously drunk on the Ashley 's generous provision of champagne and wine , with a few dainty canapés and other elegant nibbles . |
| 25 | Husband wriggled himself comfortable and reached for his pipe . |
| 26 | Although it was dark and the road twisted away in both directions , the undertaker had stood still and listened for several seconds before venturing up the steps to the front door . |
| 27 | He had felt the power of his position when he had taken a bottle to the room of any major and propositioned for information on the talk in the mess when he , the KGB 's ears , was not present . |
| 28 | Chairman I think I have to offer an apology to members and Mr in particular and the town of Bungay with a rather erm over which sentence expressing the press release , I mean we are continually trying to issue news items , press releases , progress reports and anything we 're doing and usually the press are very good and quoted for a basis , sometimes they get it wrong and mangle it up with some bits of disaster , on this occasion that is not the case , the , the actual press report did determine the phraseology used in my in lease them so I have to accept the responsibility for the phrase to act of your recommended this morning so it down sake , could abandon ideas which they can buy it , of course those crazy ideas used in and out of the court is what matters . |
| 29 | Mother , on the other head , goes to Bernard of Anlaby Road once a fortnight , where she 's ceremonially washed , lotioned , rollered , dried , combed-out and lacquered for roughly the price of my pansy-brain shampoo . |
| 30 | I was an incurable romantic and yearned for a romantic friendship before it would be too late , for I believed in those days that romantic friendship was possible only in youth . |