Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [be] [adj] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Squirrel I flew was appropriate for the task , being owned privately by a pilot who bought it new and had flown just 60 hours before it was introduced to me . |
| 2 | I did what I thought was right for the most precious thing in the world to me . |
| 3 | Indeed , as administrator Myra Hickey points out , when the Labour council was elected in 1986 one of its manifesto commitments had been to bring back the festival which had been absent for the previous two years owing to the council reclaiming its original site . |
| 4 | As a consequence of its success , the Northumbrian establishment which had been responsible for the débâcle of Nechtanesmere and the limited recovery under Aldfrith perpetuated itself in power a little longer and sporadic warfare with the Picts was resumed . |
| 5 | Factors in the resignation of Cardoso de Mello 's team — which had been responsible for the anti-inflation programmes of March 1990 and February 1991 — were variously said to include the unpopularity in business and banking sectors of their interventionist policies , the combative style adopted in negotiations with international debtors , recent clashes with members of the President 's inner circle , including regional development secretary Egberto Baptista who had been accused of malpractice , and Cardoso de Mello 's affair in 1990 with the then Justice Minister Bernardo Cabral [ see p. 37773 ] . |
| 6 | The assailants made off on motor-cycles , but one of the two was captured and identified as Abd al-Shafi Ramadan , a 25 year-old fishmonger and reportedly a member of a Cairo cell of the al-Jihad organization which had been responsible for the assassination of President Anwar Sadat in 1981 and the killing of the Speaker of the People 's Assembly , Rifaat al-Mahgoub , in October 1990 . |
| 7 | The colours she chose were black for the main colour and a dark multi-coloured yarn for the second colour . |
| 8 | She had been married for the last two years , to a man who really was a sewage plant manager ( Slater was quite hurt that Graham thought he 'd invented this detail for the sake of a joke ) . |
| 9 | All she knew was that she had been miserable for the rest of the night , and only a teasing conversation with him the next afternoon , when he was dressed very casually in blue jeans and a white T-shirt , had cheered her up again . |
| 10 | She had been ready for the road , then Mr Arthur died . |
| 11 | Together they started to laugh , the deep chuckle and the dry whispery cackle rolling past the monks , who returned with a start to their praying ; past Bridhe , Elizabeth , Marion , Hector and his young attendants , the women , clan officers , nephews , cousins , clansmen great and common , clustered weeping at the death-bed of the man who had been chief for the whole life-time of most of them . |
| 12 | It was Allen he asked as though he believed it was he who had been responsible for the verderer 's disappearance . |
| 13 | There may be a certain exaggeration in the statement that Napoleon had offered a reward for the taking of ‘ the English incendiary ‘ Kvinn or Quin ’ who had been responsible for the burning of three French battleships in the Gulf of Villefranche last year ’ but the sixteen year-old 's behaviour while in prison in Toulon is entirely in keeping with what we know about him : |
| 14 | Two other Grand Councillors , appointed at the same time , were Leslie Edwards , who had been responsible for the organisation of the Cardiff gathering , and Alec Taylor , who had been a member of the BDDA since 1907 , and a Vice-president since 1937 . |
| 15 | The task of implementing this change of policy fell on Roger Brown , then editor in succession to Ralph Gee , who had been responsible for the printing of the paper for many years and edited it for a short period . |
| 16 | Developed by a team of ex-Digital Research programmers , mainly people who had been responsible for the GEM environment , it was taken on by Xerox who , much to everyone 's amazement , managed to market the product worldwide . |
| 17 | Her brow furrowed on the realisation that it was Niall who had been responsible for the last-minute change of plans . |
| 18 | But er he never asked me , put it that way , what I thought was suitable machinery and he , as far as I know he never asked other rock men what they thought was suitable for the rock and other slate makers what they thought was suitable for inside the mill , or the diamond saw operators , what sort of saws they thought were the best . |
| 19 | Incidentally , although Fei called his book Peasant Life in China , he made no pretence that the social system he described was typical for the whole country . |
| 20 | It was difficult to explain , but he 'd been uneasy for the last few minutes : not an emotion he 'd ever had much experience of before . |
| 21 | However , it was clear from the Special Commissioner 's decision that he had looked at all the evidence and asked himself whether in view of that evidence it had been reasonable for the inspector to form the view he had taken . |
| 22 | If it had been possible for the old Castle to grow darker , Grainne thought it would have done so in the hour that followed . |
| 23 | In addition , having had several days in which to think about it , she could see quite clearly how it had been responsible for the problems which had been harassing her all her life . |
| 24 | The costs and risks involved indicated that it would have been very difficult to convince investors to invest in the generating company National Power if it had been responsible for the nuclear power stations , even though it had been given control of the majority of the generating capacity in order to compensate for this . |
| 25 | She was worried about her husband ; it had been obvious for the past few days that something was preying on his mind . |
| 26 | He had been dry for the past twenty years . |
| 27 | An expert on explosives he had been responsible for the design and building of this 4½ tons charge . |
| 28 | Although the assassination of Buckingham could have provided a fresh start , on the assumption that he had been responsible for the King 's policies , there was no redress of grievances . |
| 29 | The Field Marshal was to be tried on two counts : the first , that he had been responsible for the killing of 335 Italians in the Ardeatine Caves outside Rome and the second that he had incited his troops to act with unnecessary force against the partisans . |
| 30 | And after as many tender words as he could think of , to try and lighten the load , to try and make it seem less of a confession , even to try and compensate for the shared and shaming confidence , he told Fergus that he had been responsible for the fire that had burned down the barn near Port Ann , fifteen years earlier . |