Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [vb past] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I paid for the electric motor of the engine to be serviced , but it never worked very well . |
| 2 | So we settled for the International Press Centre … |
| 3 | One of these had married an Indian Christian doctor , and together they worked for the sick and wounded , although badly handicapped by the lack of medicines . |
| 4 | Yesterday they lost for the second time when they fell 6-7 , 7-6 , 6-3 , 6-4 to Todd Witsken of the United States and Jorge Lozano of Mexico . |
| 5 | Yesterday they lost for the second time when they fell 6-7 , 7-6 , 6-3 , 6-4 to Todd Witsken of the United States and Jorge Lozano of Mexico . |
| 6 | Yesterday he smiled for the last time and said he did not wish to obstruct the work of Prime Minister Hans Modrow — who now constitutes , with a small group of associates from Dresden , the only remaining acceptable face of reform within the East German Communist Party . |
| 7 | She had n't missed him at all when he died , but now she realized for the first time that she had lost her father . |
| 8 | A month ago he had come to see her and now she understood for the first time that what he had said to her then would change her life . |
| 9 | There were things he consciously noticed about people which he brought to mind long after he had ceased to watch them , but now he noted for the first time that she had very small feet — they could have belonged to the oriental he had imagined her to be through the sun haze . |
| 10 | Well I worked for the past two year really |
| 11 | Here we lived for the next fifteen years , with the eighteenth-century kirk across the road , and from my study window at the front a clear thirty-mile view across the Tweed valley to the distant Cheviots . |
| 12 | Now we could n't have him in this year to give the others a chance so this is how you voted for the nineteen ninety three racing personality of the year on Channel Four and let's take it in reverse order starting with the person who finished fourth . |
| 13 | At least we did for the longer |
| 14 | Then they left for the 13-mile drive to their luxurious home at Corston , near Bath . |
| 15 | No doubt the privies , there were two of them , were much appreciated by the tenants , but one wonders how they managed for the previous two or three years . |
| 16 | ‘ A word about your weapons , gentlemen , ’ he smarmed , then he went for the quick draw and levelled a long-barrelled pistol at all of us . |
| 17 | Then he worked for the British . ’ |
| 18 | This was when I learnt for the first time how experts conducted dealing for Jim came from a family of dealers . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Instead she settled for the three most applicable adjectives she could think of . |
| 21 | Lowe was twelve when she married for the third time — to a psychologist — and he arrived , all corn-fed and terminally uncool , in Malibu . |
| 22 | Instead he served for the next three yearswith a merchant shipping company . |
| 23 | Many of the pieces were purchased by Dubosc in Japan where he lived for the latter part of his life and much of his collection is now in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco . |
| 24 | In an attempt to solve the Arab-Israeli crisis , the Highland Light Infantry sent Docherty to Palestine , where he played for the British Army XI . |
| 25 | In a career that took him to Genoa where he played for the local side Sampdoria , he assumed an almost Italianate sense of style . |