Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [prep] [pron] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has seemed to us for a long time that something special about Foxton Locks and Inclined Plane is called for , and this is an attempt to meet that need . |
| 2 | Reserve team manager Eddie Kyle said : ‘ Parkinson has trained with us for a while . |
| 3 | These have to be married with the individual dreams of each business who , in addition to achieving the best they can ask for their business , have to perform and deliver what the board has asked of them for the company as a whole . |
| 4 | ‘ She has worked for me for a long time . |
| 5 | Les left the party for what he calls ‘ the superior ideology of Moral Re-Armament , ’ and has worked with us for the past sixteen years . |
| 6 | I had photographs of Anne , naturally , and I 'd stared at them for a whole year , but they were n't very good . |
| 7 | I think that often people did n't realise how tired and desperate they were until they 'd sat with her for a while . |
| 8 | Neither was she too happy about the epithet ‘ min skat ’ , which he 'd applied to her for the second time that day . |
| 9 | She suffered so much when he did casuals that he 'd lied about it for a long time . |
| 10 | She 'd slaved for him for the last seven year , and before that ever since she was born — eight or nine year was it — at the Old Mint ? |
| 11 | I 'd lived with them for a while . |
| 12 | But that was only because I 'd lived in it for a long time and I got a discount so the house was really |
| 13 | Hence the need to explore any avenue that will provide a variety of services in order to allay the second fear about specialism — that the service will become labelled as one for the poor only . |
| 14 | The lead fisherman wore shades ( ever see fish wearing glasses ? ) for the bluesy number and got rid of them for a rappy tune ( thank God ! ) . |
| 15 | John Aubrey [ q.v. ] may have lodged with him for a time . |
| 16 | Waxing , a more traditional English technique employed by those unable or unwilling to undertake french polishing , ousted the latter by the 1920s , having run alongside it for the previous forty years . |
| 17 | He should have remained with her for the hunting , devil take it , instead of going to his friend Woolacombe ! |
| 18 | Normally she would have screamed at him for the minute splinters she knew he must be creating , but now she kept her anger for other matters . |
| 19 | The tour in Japan was over and David left — he sailed for Vladivostok — and finally , just to get rid of me as usual ( if you keep making enough noise they 'll get rid of you for a little peace and quiet ) they gave me a visa . |
| 20 | Well it 's not that , i it 's so they they like to get rid of it for the summer and i if there 's a sign of a bit of frost out they all come , shoving it onto the road and rotting everybody 's cars . |
| 21 | She hoped it had n't been anything serious but if it was n't then he ought not to have brooded over it for the rest of the day . |
| 22 | It had been with shame and some irritation that he had recognized in himself for the first time the nagging of jealousy . |
| 23 | And when he 'd finished , Ted had stared at him for a moment in open disbelief . |
| 24 | Dierdriu had looked at her for a long moment . |
| 25 | She had looked at him for a long time , at first solemnly and then with mounting anger . |
| 26 | Jane had come to us for the time being . |
| 27 | Iskandara had felt behind her for a chair back and now stood gripping it , her free hand clenched about the head of her stick . |
| 28 | Offering the blond English boy — the one I was throwing water at now — half my lunch , and sitting there full of gratitude because he smiled , because he liked the taste of the piece of chicken dipped in cumin and saffron and he had smiled at me for the first time . |
| 29 | The producer Jerome Hellman had seen Dustin in Eh ? and had thought of him for the part way back then . |
| 30 | On the latter 's arrival , they had talked to him for a while and then he had gone off with them . |