Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [pron] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Chinese , who used ivory for elaborately carved handles and vessels as early as the Shang dynasty and in later times used it for a wide variety of personal items such as brush pots , wrist-rests , boxes , seals , snuff boxes and fans , had increasingly to import the material as the elephant herds in the southern provinces diminished . |
| 2 | His glance met hers for a brief , breathtaking moment , before he started forward , his stride slow , and rangy . |
| 3 | The Welshman kicked the ball away and referee Dangaard dismissed him for a second bookable offence . |
| 4 | Designed to counteract poor visibility on murky winter afternoons , it had been used in Scotland and by the visiting South Africans in 1924 before Arsenal adopted it for a public trial match three years later . |
| 5 | Sorrel watched him for a few seconds , then snatched it out of his hands and stuck it in her mouth . |
| 6 | The light dazzled us for a bare ten years with its brilliance , before it was extinguished . |
| 7 | My first girlfriend left me for a new man . |
| 8 | The two owners were aged 84 and 71 and , after the chewing incident , the RSPCA swapped it for a smaller dog . |
| 9 | A 16-YEAR-OLD boy who fired a catapult at a low-flying Sri Lankan air force helicopter yesterday was wounded when the copter 's gunner mistook him for a Tamil terrorist and shot back at him . |
| 10 | Anabelle watched him for a long while , but he did n't twitch a muscle . |
| 11 | All that was left of Bernice 's rational practicality marshalled itself for a final , concerted assault on her bewildered brain . |
| 12 | Claudia Yeo nerved herself for a final effort . |
| 13 | Romanian troops braced themselves for a Soviet invasion . |
| 14 | Elaine watched her for a few minutes before paddling further into the shore , lying on the soft , creamy sand , letting the shallow water caress her feet and legs . |
| 15 | Vitor studied her for a long , piercing moment . |
| 16 | Streisand took the flak and Twentieth Century-Fox executives braced themselves for a financial disaster . |
| 17 | His absorption with Mao and Castro was so open that the neighbors took it for a double bluff , and each new discovery of an agent transmitting messages from some ordinary-looking English suburb increased the tension of their interest in the land mine who was surely bound one day to go off in their own street . |
| 18 | Mike said nothing for a few minutes . |
| 19 | Anne watched her for a few moments in stunned silence , trying to decide if she meant what she had said . |
| 20 | Indeed , the fact that he did not refer her to a different psychiatrist convinced me for a long time that I had misconstrued the situation . |
| 21 | Charles pressed it for a long time . |
| 22 | Mr Brownlow said nothing for a few seconds , but simply stared at Rose . |
| 23 | Foley said nothing for a good few seconds . |
| 24 | The recorder Nicholas Jarman jailed him for a further 3 and a half years for what he described as a terrible act with the most appalling consequences . |
| 25 | After they had gone , Harriet took herself for a long walk over the cliffs , but for once the beauty of her surroundings , the early evening light on the sea , the cry of gulls and the distant sound of waves breaking on the shore below , failed to soothe her . |
| 26 | Azmaveth considered something for a few moments and then nodded to herself , as if she 'd made a decision . |