Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] for [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked for the usual guarantees — that the object would n't endanger my ship or anyone on it , and that carrying it would breach no SenFed laws . |
| 2 | I lived for the six weeks almost as one of the Community except that I did not sleep at the Manor . |
| 3 | And I knelt for a few moments , head buried in my hands . |
| 4 | I meditated for a few seconds , concentrating on my breathing , immediately aware of how shallow it was . |
| 5 | It was just a fantasy I nurtured for a few years as I puffed and panted my way through the ten-foots and alleyways of downtown Hull . |
| 6 | I looked for the black boots . |
| 7 | I now realise I looked for the wrong things . |
| 8 | I looked for the knitted garments that I used to help her with but they must have all been sold . |
| 9 | so I managed for a few weeks and then I went to lodge with my sister at Trimley |
| 10 | ‘ I thought I went for the Amazonian types , ’ he commented , ladling some of the food on to his plate warily . |
| 11 | I poured him a glass of the special malt which I kept for the rare occasions of celebration or consolation in my life . |
| 12 | those there , cos those are the ones I had for the European elections |
| 13 | So I went back to alight indicator , pulled down only a few inches , which was enough to allow the bream to suck the bait to their lips , and then I paused for a few seconds while I watched the line from the rod-tip tightening in the water . |
| 14 | If I waited for a hundred years , if I devoted my life to fasting and asceticism and scholarship as the Druids do , still it would make no difference . |
| 15 | I longed for the sweet delights of eternity , and I gave my soul over to love Christ with every ounce of my power … |
| 16 | A 36-day strike by workers in the mining and metallurgical industry over wages and conditions was ended by an agreement on July 23 , 1990 , which provided for a substantial wages and conditions package , payment during the strike and a one-off cash payment . |
| 17 | Once , owing to a printer 's understandable failure to decipher my proof corrections , a book of mine appeared with a recipe which called for the whisked whites of 123 eggs … no reader has ever written to me demanding an explanation of this recipe . ) |
| 18 | I told him about the lavatory on the entrance floor , which did for the fourteen tenants in the house . |
| 19 | ‘ I did n't understand what he meant , and nothing happened for a few weeks , so I did not feel so worried . |
| 20 | The rest had left finance , bar a few who retrained for the burgeoning futures markets in right-to-pollute certificates and manual-job options . |
| 21 | RUNAWAY teenager Nicola Rogers told today why she headed for the bright lights of Blackpool after leaving her home 100 miles away four days ago . |
| 22 | She darted for the open doors and down the stone step to the garden . |
| 23 | If you studied for a two-year teachers ' certificate at the University before the early 1980s , you qualify to join the Duannians . |
| 24 | Most of the 1,500 crowd who came for the best objects on the last two days of the sale meanwhile , were just tourists , which made taking bids extremely difficult and fatiguing , Tajan said . |
| 25 | Ballymena will have the services of former London Irish flanker Gareth White , who played for the Irish Exiles last season , but is now home working in Coleraine . |
| 26 | She drove for a few minutes in silence , then she said , ‘ You know what I 'm going back to ? ’ |
| 27 | ‘ And who paid for the extra deliveries ? |
| 28 | For instance , when Paris designated the wanton APHRODITE as the most beautiful of the goddesses , Hera 's morals were affronted and she arranged for the Trojan Wars to occur as just recrimination for the slight . |
| 29 | You leapt for the cleaner banks and I allowed myself to be carried on by the filth of deceit , of shame , and of a guilt that even now I can not put into public or private words . |
| 30 | Neurosurgeons have already operated on Michael , who worked for a local builders ' merchant , and a team of specialists are keeping a round-the-clock watch on his condition . |