Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] [vb past] for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also asked him for report which I needed for Statutory Review . |
| 2 | Robyn , doing her best to ignore the almost overwhelming feeling of pure dislike which she had for this man , glanced at the ornate carriage clock beside the bed , registered the time slowly and looked aghast . |
| 3 | The sort of criteria which we used for paradigmatic delimitation are of no help here . |
| 4 | Despite revolutionary zeal , or perhaps because of it , they sought immediate compensations for the miseries of daily life , and spontaneous methods of attack which they mistook for political strategy . |
| 5 | Some who had failed to get out of the way in time bore the scars like war wounds or medals which they paraded for public admiration . |
| 6 | He had given a speech earlier in the year on the subject of ‘ Constitution Reform in Trinidad and Tobago ’ , at the end of which he appealed for mass action and now he was testing the dedication and organisational abilities of his P.E.G . |
| 7 | The congregation usually watched him with a perverse relish which he mistook for devout attention , but this Sunday afternoon there was palpably an added curiosity to see how well he managed to live down the shaming comedy he had enacted on horseback a few days before . |
| 8 | IN THE JUDEO-CHRISTIAN tradition , human beings , closest to God , believed that they had dominion over all His other creatures , which He created for human benefit . |
| 9 | However , the Communists , who emerged for a second time as power broker despite their loss of seven seats in parliament , has made it clear that they will not collaborate with the Pasok leader whom they indicted for alleged wrongdoing during the interim left-right coalition government of Mr Tzannis Tzannetakis . |
| 10 | He sat gazing into space , his unblinking stare which had compelled Harold Macmillan to shift him in Cabinet so as to avoid what he took for continual rebuke , unbroken by the throng that pressed about him . |
| 11 | Asked what he hoped for Soviet art and culture after long years of political oppression , he said there would be an enormous spiritual benefit , not least because of easier travel and contacts with the rest of the world . |
| 12 | Perhaps the book of lamentation is not the book you normally turn to , to find words of encouragement , but there are tremendous encouragements to be found in it , listen what the profits says there , in the third chapter , he says this I recall to my mind , and he 's talking about the time of his own affliction , the time when he is going through it , the time when nobody loves him , the time when everybody 's against him , when he 's suffering and he 's in pain the time when life is full of bitterness for him , he says this I recall to my mind , therefore I have hope , the lords loving kindness indeed never ceases for his compassion 's never fail and here Jesus is demonstrating that , he 's compassion 's never fail , he 's loving kindnesses they never cease , here in his dying hour Jesus is showing that in reaching out to this man but as we said the other week the , the deepest , the most important significance of what Jesus did then , of what Jesus said then , its not just of the historical account , but that he is able and willing to say and to do exactly the same today in your experience and in mine , what he did for that man on the cross he 's ready and willing to do for every one of us the incident may of happened nineteen hundred years ago , but there 's the old hymn , the verse reminds us , picks out that very story and it says the dying thief rejoiced to see that fountain in his day and there may I , though via us he wash all my sins away , and that verse from William Cowper 's hymn , it takes up that great historical event , that tremendous happening in that man 's life and he links it with a present and it applies it to you and to me and says this can be our experience as well . |
| 13 | What he did for that man on the cross , he 's ready and willing to do for every one of us . |
| 14 | That assessment has only to be read to indicart to indicate what it fortended for future success in her chosen career . |