Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [adj] [verb] for " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | There was an eager murmur , for something in his voice promised the action they all longed for . |
| 2 | Despite the reservations of his trainer he next went for the Melbourne Cup : he started even-money favourite , but pulled his way to the front in a slowly run race against the wishes of his jockey and faded in the straight to finish third . |
| 3 | He discovered that all his desires were related to the need we all have for God himself — not just for a mother 's love or for some other intense childhood need . |
| 4 | I would begin my much-loved cleaning the moment they all left for the pub , and in pursuit of domestic perfection removed the cushions from the couch to find the little brown eye-dropper-bottle . |
| 5 | He knew he was n't going to regret the move from the moment they all assembled for the first rehearsal . |
| 6 | The phrase which begins ‘ WORDS ’ offers French writer Joseph Joubert 's view of the responsibility we all share for the language we use . |
| 7 | And somehow , from the warmth we all feel for the soundtracks of our adolescence and the prevalent loathing some of us feel for the current torpor of the charts , he has managed to fashion something comically incendiary . |
| 8 | Or alternatively adapt Policy I five to allow for a strategic erm site or sites to be brought forward by local planning authorities in the course of their local plan work . |
| 9 | ‘ The one thing we all ask for is love . |
| 10 | On that merry note we both retired for the night . |
| 11 | We are looking for a reason of justice we all share for rejecting the checkerboard strategy in advance even if we would each prefer a checkerboard solution on some occasions to the one that will be imposed if the strategy is rejected . |