Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [pers pn] for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has now been decided to write to Rangers asking for their views on statements attributed to the three men since Ferguson 's club dropped him for disciplinary reasons , after which it came to light that Murray had spoken to United 's manager/chairman , Jim Mclean , about buying the Scotland internationalist . |
| 2 | After completing the orchestral score , Reger reworked it for two pianos , but this version for piano duet has more of the original material . |
| 3 | Northamptonshire signed him for four years he shared digs with Colin Milburn and though he progressed less spectacularly than his former Durham colleague , Scott proved an able bowler . |
| 4 | Mr Singleton sold them for two pounds each . |
| 5 | Doubts about the genuineness of his own faith troubled him for many years . |
| 6 | Judge Lawrence Verney jailed him for seven years foreach of the rapes and four years for each of the indecent assaults , all to run concurrently . |
| 7 | But ESA delayed it for five years , mainly so that this prestige project could be launched on the European launcher Ariane . |
| 8 | Fukase 's series RAVENS preoccupied him for ten years , beginning with a chance photograph of a flock of crows on his native Hokkaido in 1975 and culminating in the publication of 62 photographs in 1986 . |
| 9 | Guilt besieged him for many years . |
| 10 | His occupancy lasted until 1 761 , when he sold it to another local clothier , John Cox , in whose family it remained until 1818 when Elizabeth and William leased it for seven years to the partnership of John Cox and Weston Hicks . |
| 11 | One of his wins had qualified him for the National so when he came up for sale at Doncaster , Kempton secured him for 2,000 guineas on behalf of two of his owners who were keen to have a runner in the race . |
| 12 | Most people joined it for humanitarian reasons but it was an outlet for all kinds of disgust . |
| 13 | She says that they were desperate for food , and the pike fed them for two days . |
| 14 | Judge William Hannah jailed him for 12 months and disqualified him from driving for six months . |
| 15 | Livingston , who has vowed to clear his name after British athletics chiefs banned him for four years for drugs cheating , said : ‘ I am being imprisoned for something I have n't done . |
| 16 | But Mum knew them for crafty rogues and she had n't forgotten the coal . |
| 17 | The staff and right leg propelled me for forty yards until the leg gave way and the injured one , without a thought , took the strain and I ended up on my hands and knees ranting and raving . |
| 18 | Last year the Home Secretary reappointed him for five years : the first of the BBC 's 17 chairmen since incorporation in 1927 to receive a second full term . |
| 19 | I could n't even manage the children — friends took them for odd days . |
| 20 | Pearse coached me for two years . |
| 21 | Police followed him for six miles on the A1 near Dishforth at speeds of up to 96mph through heavy rain . |
| 22 | The peregrine chased it for six miles , and even then the pigeon did not give in . |
| 23 | Sister Eillen Regan , from the board of education of the Roman Catholic archdiocese of San Francisco , says the board shunned it for two reasons : ‘ It treats nuclear war as survivable and implies nuclear war is a political option ’ . |
| 24 | Deputy Judge Harold Hewitt jailed them for eight years each . |
| 25 | Magistrates bailed him for eight weeks on conditions which included not venturing out alone from the Leahurst residential home for the mentally disturbed . |
| 26 | The trust ran it for twenty years as something like the proprietors ' colonies of the previous century , but in 1752 it became a royal colony . |
| 27 | This is almost all that can be gleaned from broadly contemporary written sources about the Danish monarchy between c.950 and the accession c.987 of Swegen Forkbeard , who conquered England in 1013 , and whose son Cnut ruled it for nineteen years . |
| 28 | The Yanks had in fact had them for some months in the Scullery apartment . |