Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [pers pn] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 2 | Henry Porter doubtless spoke for many when he wrote recently in the Guardian : ‘ Little in the post-war years of decline in Britain has prepared us for the deep sense of unease now being experienced by its people . |
| 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 | The ‘ fine boy ’ with the grim destiny is Thomas Fox , a boy of fifteen whose father , a small farmer , has entrusted him for the first time with a flock of sheep for Portsmouth market . |
| 6 | Years ago I used to think this was a fun sport but the reason for thinking this has escaped me for the last 2 weeks . |
| 7 | ‘ Maverick limey has negotiated the hell-fire of the Brain and the almighty trail-boss Midwinter has summoned him for a special assignment . ’ |
| 8 | Our body clock has woken us for the next day after only a minimal opportunity for extra sleep . |
| 9 | KIND-HEARTED Jimmy Savile has fixed it for a badly-burned Romanian boy to have surgery in Britain . |
| 10 | Your wife has left you for a continuous period of two years . |
| 11 | I feel so comfortable with your mother and the whole time here has changed me for the better . ’ |
| 12 | Yvonne Paul whose The Glamour Game ( W H Allen , £2.95 ) tells all about the Glamour Biz sent me in the blouse off her back , drenched in exotic perfume , as a ‘ thank-you ’ after I 'd interviewed her for the Daily Mail and mentioned how much I liked her get-up . |
| 13 | Her father 's expression was the warmest she 'd seen it for a long time . |
| 14 | She 'd spotted him for the first time three weekends ago when she 'd walked out on to the nightclub stage to perform her warm-up spot for the star turn of the evening . |
| 15 | ‘ You must have done it for a good reason . |
| 16 | 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 . " |
| 17 | Nothing in the three villagers ' long but sheltered past could have prepared them for the horrendous sight that met their eyes . |
| 18 | We expected a big postbag but nothing could have prepared us for the fantastic response we received ! |
| 19 | ( Some would have already recovered the development value of the land by selling at a high price ; others may never have wished to develop their land , and , indeed , might even have bought it for the express purpose of preventing its development . ) |
| 20 | According to Constanze , he received the news with painful resignation , saying that the situation would have enabled him for the first time to have sufficient leisure to write what he wanted , and to justify his growing reputation ; but instead only death awaited him . |
| 21 | ‘ They must have bugged her for the same reason we went to see her : she was somebody unofficial but experienced in underground work — They 'd know they were up against some British group not the CIA . |
| 22 | Sir James Barrie would have known him for a Lost Boy . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ I should n't have asked you for the extra two-fifty mils . ’ |
| 25 | The flood apart from ruining their home made their own car which should have taken them for the fully-paid honeymoon in Scotland , float off down the road and crash into another car . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ He claims to have met him for the first time at the Windorah ; it 's a bar frequented mainly by foreigners . |
| 28 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 29 | But she did make two purchases from the hat and the dress departments with the money which J. D. O'Conner had given her for the two articles which she had written for him . |
| 30 | 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 . |