Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [vb past] [vb pp] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would then enquire how much I 'd paid for the latest irreparable objects , and if it had been 20p or less he 'd say , with satisfaction , ‘ Well , at least it had a decent plug ’ , and the decent plug would go into the decent plug box . |
| 2 | The pot-bellied tosser told me that the club wished to make a gesture in recognition of all I had done for the ‘ Stiffs ’ during my spell as manager , and after much discussion it was agreed that they could best show their appreciation by raising the price of my season ticket for next year by 25 per cent . |
| 3 | All he 'd got for the mite was a tatty old kite |
| 4 | Mr Roberts was thanked for all he had done for the Society since its inception . |
| 5 | The fields and clouds were the same as those I had seen for the last half hour . |
| 6 | Those who had fought for the King would be exempt from penalties if their properties were small . |
| 7 | The division on the Determination of Needs Bill debate in February 1941 was reprinted from Hansard , citing all 173 who had voted for the continuance of means calculations together with the ‘ sincere few ’ ( nineteen ) who had been carpeted for defying the Labour whip . |
| 8 | But Greenpeace noted that the British government 's willingness to sign the convention as it stood was a fundamental shift in policy in that it had agreed for the first time to the elimination in principle of dangerous chemicals . |