Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] for [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The more she tried to be that person the more I lost my sense of who I 'd fallen for in the first place . |
| 2 | The Statue of the Etook Ha'chllt he 'd bartered for in a little town called Slew , which was now , regrettably , a blasted spot , its citizens the victims of a purge visited upon them for the crime of a song , written in the dialect of their community , suggesting that the Autarch of Yzordderrex lacked testicles . |
| 3 | BIG-SPENDERS Leeds handed their long-suffering fans Christmas presents they could n't have bargained for with a seven-try romp against Championship chasers Castleford , writes Ray French . |
| 4 | Erm but erm come the time had come for for the fair let's say the the the Spring fair . |
| 5 | Or , and this was more likely , he found Beth too lovely , too desirable , too much like the women he had longed for as a young man , and never had the fortune to find . |
| 6 | You could also erm , start to recognize the benefit of the rural sector , and one reason why they were discriminating , L D Cs tended to want to ignore that and sort of shun it , because it 's not sort of a glamorous image they were trying to hope for in the urban sector , and , so , if they did help them , say give them units , like the repair men , units to work in , and they put them in really totally crappy accommodation , and up not where you need it , and not where people pass by with their motors and things , they , they 'd put them somewhere up on a hill , overlooking a city , so erm , to encourage the informal sector by erm , sort of on a par with the formal sector because erm , their inter- reacting , inter-relating now , like they 're providing cheap inputs for the formal industries and , and the formal industries are pro providing clientele all for the informal sector , and so it 's all inter-linked and , and it 's there now . |
| 7 | But he felt as well something far greater — the sudden joy of life that he had pleaded for as the old eagle 's right , and in pleading for it then had begun at last to claim it as his own . |
| 8 | The virtual destruction of the Liberal Party almost completed the political pattern which he had hoped for since the previous autumn . |
| 9 | This is less than best but it 's better than nothing , that 's the point and it is very nearly what we have argued for from the very beginning . |