Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [pers pn] for [art] [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 | Britain 's golden boy who lost his shine when newcomer David Grindley beat him for the final place in today 's 400 metres final is ready to take a year off from the track if it means he can beat the trouble . |
| 3 | His glance met hers for a brief , breathtaking moment , before he started forward , his stride slow , and rangy . |
| 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 | I had each Wednesday afternoon off from Russell 's and he enroled me , secretly , into his school for lessons with his normal classes , He and his wife held a weekly open house and these cramming sessions prepared me for the coming Halton entrance examination . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 9 | Anabelle watched him for a long while , but he did n't twitch a muscle . |
| 10 | Vitor studied her for a long , piercing moment . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Fraulein Winkelmann told him for the Good God 's sake to get the papers fast , and Bruno went away and came back and pointed the Luger yet again . |
| 14 | Charles pressed it for a long time . |
| 15 | Tite wanted him for the special unit he was setting up . ’ |
| 16 | Instead Barclays asked him for an extra £15 commission on his traveller 's cheques . |
| 17 | His guardian uncles intended him for an academic career , and his brother Christopher , presumably of similar intelligence and attainment , later became Master of Trinity . |