Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [verb] [pers pn] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mm , I 'll go back with him and he 'll wear his bloody shoes when I go back with him , how much they charging you for the repairs ? |
| 2 | It 's so incongruous it stuns me for a few seconds . |
| 3 | I 'm sure he meant it for the best — I always told you , he means well — but I have to admit , he 's not an easy man to talk to . |
| 4 | Thomas Poole the younger had been born into comfortable West Somerset obscurity in 1765 , and gave little sign to those who met him for the first time of the great gifts of character and intellect which he possessed . |
| 5 | Thus , if in a set of decimals to be compared , the longest one really is the smallest , it will attract such pupils when they are asked to pick out the smallest as well as those who select it for the correct reason . |
| 6 | Ever since John Marshall , its first chief justice , discovered that the court had the ability to overturn legislation that did not accord with the constitution , it has been indispensable in bolstering the central tenet of American democracy : that no grant of governmental power to those who exercise it for the time being is limitless . |
| 7 | We thought it a good idea to start off by hiring a motor caravan , or camper van as they 're called in NZ , but as it was quite expensive we took it for a fortnight just to try it . |