Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [conj] for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Filmer 's neck muscles slowly relaxed , and I realized that for a moment he must have suspected that the scene had been specifically aimed at him . |
| 2 | I forgot that for a while during the '80s but I 'm back now , ’ Starr said . |
| 3 | In Acts 8 , I saw that for the converts in Samaria , although wonderfully converted and delivered from evil ( v 7 ) and baptised ( v 12 ) , there was still something missing . |
| 4 | Helen : For some reason I thought of it that they 've given me this monster of a baby that I was n't going to be able to love , and some woman came round — she may have been the hospital social worker or an almoner — and spent about an hour telling me how this was going to completely change the course of my life , I was going to be saddled with this child that would need twenty-four hour care and attention , and I had to think carefully about whether I wanted that for the rest of my life , i.e. was I going to keep him — virtually talking me into not keeping him , and I think the turning-point was that I felt there was something coming from the outside that was , sort of , really trying to urge me to reject him , and that I rebelled against it . |
| 5 | In particular it caused the bankruptcy of the BCR , which meant that for the rest of its life it was in the hands of the Receiver . |
| 6 | I remember in my young days — ’ She stopped and for a moment they sat quietly , both thinking of past Christmases when their parents and grandparents had been alive . |
| 7 | This was achieved by Debye in 1944 , who showed that for a solute whose molecules are small compared with the wavelength of the light used , the reduced angular scattering intensity of the solute is and that this is related to the change in Gibbs free energy with concentration of the solute . |
| 8 | Other influential evidence was provided by Phillips ( 1958 ) who showed that for the UK for almost 100 years before the late 1950s there appeared to exist a stable relationship — which became known as the Phillips curve — between a real variable , unemployment , and the rate of change of a nominal variable , nominal wages . |
| 9 | When her husband began to sing a little , snapping his fingers in rhythm , she smiled and for a moment looked like a young girl again ; but the barman came immediately and reminded them that singing was not permitted . |
| 10 | We watched that for a bit , then took the first tube of the day round to a friend 's place for a while . |
| 11 | We decided that for the Capital Guarantee Bond we would advertise in the national press . |
| 12 | So we suggested that for the production phase it might be better if one company was to build one wing and the other company the other er and that 's . |
| 13 | They agreed that for the moment they would say nothing about it to Ebenezer . |
| 14 | Hardly anyone had expected the Japanese to surrender quite so quickly and , when they did and for the moment , as far as the Allies were concerned , hardly anything happened . |
| 15 | But he realised that for a man like Lancaster — trusting and timid — the betrayal would have been much , much worse . |
| 16 | Wexford waited patiently , for he guessed that for a moment the man was totally unable to speak . |
| 17 | As he had not decided what purpose their relationship should have , he decided that for the moment they should meet as little as possible . |
| 18 | From the November replies , for example , it appeared that for the peak year for absenteeism , S5 , 27% of the pupils were authorised absentees at least once during the week , while 15% were unauthorised absentees . |
| 19 | He brings with him his radio and prepares for — his — match with Lierse listening to BBC hoping for Leeds goals … and after the Wembley match he went straigth to Batty for changing shirts — i think he said that for the couple of last minutes that was the main thing — not that he had made a great goal or Norway getting a draw . |
| 20 | Perhaps he said that for the benefit of Signor fragolli , so I just said , ‘ OK . ’ |