Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [v-ing] [pers pn] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What do you mean , ma'am ? ’ the sergeant grunted suspiciously , over-sensitive in his present mood , and fearful the superintendent was blaming him for some unknown misdemeanour . |
| 2 | The subsequent chronology of the licences , as well as the varying charges for them , reveal that the king was granting them for political and financial ends , to make friends and raise cash , particularly from the late 1290s when he desperately needed both . |
| 3 | Many people were buying it for silly uses like bonding plastics — there are loads of alternatives for that ’ . |
| 4 | I 'd caught a glimpse of my face in the hall mirror once , when Gav was berating me for such rakish tendencies , and I 'd been smiling . |
| 5 | and so this guy was selling it for forty , Vicky ordered her canoe there and he was quite a young man and so alright she said hi big boy how about letting me have it for thirty five if you 're willing to ha are you willing to haggle I mean my friend did buy a whole canoe he sort of |