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 | The Welshman kicked the ball away and referee Dangaard dismissed him for a second bookable offence . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Sorrel watched him for a few seconds , then snatched it out of his hands and stuck it in her mouth . |
| 8 | The light dazzled us for a bare ten years with its brilliance , before it was extinguished . |
| 9 | My first girlfriend left me for a new man . |
| 10 | The two owners were aged 84 and 71 and , after the chewing incident , the RSPCA swapped it for a smaller dog . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Anabelle watched him for a long while , but he did n't twitch a muscle . |
| 13 | It was in 1977 and ‘ 78 that McEvoy won this title before Ronan Rafferty beat him for the first ( and only ) time in nearly 30 matches for England . |
| 14 | Rain watched her for the last few yards , noting how the morning 's cheerfulness had been replaced by anxiety . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Igor Stravinsky met him for the first time in this year , and recalled how shy he seemed . |
| 17 | Vitor studied her for a long , piercing moment . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Then Folly reached the top of the steps , and the woman noticed her for the first time . |
| 20 | A thing of great beauty , it was not unusual to hear sharp intakes of breath as people beheld it for the first time . |
| 21 | In the car on the return journey , clutching the row of books like a concertina , Mungo thanked him for the third time , promising to pay him the moment they got home . |
| 22 | Anne watched her for a few moments in stunned silence , trying to decide if she meant what she had said . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ You are not becoming a Brownie tonight , ’ Mum reminded her for the hundredth time . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Charles pressed it for a long time . |
| 27 | Even when Guy left her for the few seconds it took him to remove his own clothes , his murmured words of love and praise still warmed and reassured her . |
| 28 | The quarrel between faith and unbelief touched him for the first time and unsettled his mind . |
| 29 | Bessie kissed me for the last time as I held tightly to her . |
| 30 | The Campbells were waiting to greet him in the hall , and Elizabeth saw him for the first time . |