Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [pron] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Christopher Gill ( Member for Ludlow and a Midlands businessman ) , as has been mentioned in Chapter 6 , has concerned himself for a long time with what were once seen to be obscure constitutional issues of subsidiarity . |
| 2 | ‘ First , my miserable Yankee friend , the good Brigadeführer Farber has recommended you for an immediate Iron Cross First Class which , from what he says , you deserve . ’ |
| 3 | I am pleased to have the opportunity to raise this subject which has interested me for a long time . |
| 4 | If she has had it for a few years , there will be another bonus in that it will mature before the end of your mortgage term , saving thousands in extra interest payments . |
| 5 | ‘ Maverick limey has negotiated the hell-fire of the Brain and the almighty trail-boss Midwinter has summoned him for a special assignment . ’ |
| 6 | KIND-HEARTED Jimmy Savile has fixed it for a badly-burned Romanian boy to have surgery in Britain . |
| 7 | Your wife has left you for a continuous period of two years . |
| 8 | Her father 's expression was the warmest she 'd seen it for a long time . |
| 9 | ‘ You must have done it for a good reason . |
| 10 | I would have done it for a young white guy if he was from my club and I realised that he did not have enough money to play the Tour . " |
| 11 | I do nt think they ve had one for a few years . |
| 12 | Sir James Barrie would have known him for a Lost Boy . |
| 13 | Maxim would have known it for a British government office no matter where in the world he met it : small neon-lit with a hodge-podge of cheap furniture and painted to look scruffy even when it was surgically dean . |
| 14 | Some might have taken him for a mere apprentice enchanter who had run away from his master out of defiance , boredom , fear and a lingering taste for heterosexuality . |
| 15 | ‘ To have banned him for a few months would have been one thing , but to take him to court and ban him for life seemed to defeat the object of the exercise . ’ |
| 16 | Which is a bit different and I 'd like to see it , that 's just one of my things , but again when you 're in , going into retirement I think you 've got to think about this , I mean I went , nobody twisted my arm , I went into that situation and I 've enjoyed it for a great many years , but now I 'm thinking I 'd , before I , it 's too late I want to have a , a l a fling in autumn as it were . |
| 17 | They had prepared themselves for an unpleasant scene in which the wretched boy , stuffed to the gills with chocolate cake , would have to surrender and beg for mercy and then they would have watched the triumphant Trunchbull forcing more and still more cake into the mouth of the gasping boy . |
| 18 | The big fella is more keyed up than I 've seen him for a long time and he is channelling all his energies into one final world cup fling . |
| 19 | I 've seen her for a few minutes , but now they 've taken her to be X-rayed . |
| 20 | Well I 've seen 'em for a hundred now actually , a hundred quid . |
| 21 | His crooked smile was very much in evidence and Matey could have told her that since her arrival Dr Neil had been happier than she had seen him for a long time — there had been fewer backslidings towards the ‘ nasty whisky ’ since McAllister had appeared in his life to provide him with such rich amusement . |
| 22 | In 1987 the role of Lord Mayor was taken by Richard Horner , a local butcher , who had done it for a few years . |
| 23 | I 've suspected it for a long time , but now it 's absolutely dear ! |
| 24 | No one had said anything for a long time . |
| 25 | I picked the song because I had written it for a special person and it was not a Dr Hook song . |
| 26 | She was seized with a desire to feel his hand on her breast again , as she had felt it for a fleeting second months ago . |
| 27 | You 've had it for a few years too . |
| 28 | He then delivered a heavy hint of the need for reform : ‘ We know the Germans , we 've known them for a long time . |
| 29 | If he does really well he can hope for a bonus of cross-party votes : never mind Patrick 's party label , we 've known him for a long time , we like him and he 's been very helpful . |
| 30 | His voice was sharp , yet as intimate as if he had known her for a long time . |