Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pron] [adv] for [art] " in BNC.

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1 she obviously took them both for the same thing did n't she ?
2 We 've spent months of shelving and then in the end he just says oh sod it , just took it out for an eight one six then .
3 Our escorts , both dressed in blazers and boaters jumped on-board — and promptly steered us straight for a garden wall .
4 It was the weekend I bought the Granada , I 'm sure it was when we went away first time I ever took it out for a run .
5 Picasso , on the other hand , while he was undoubtedly fascinated by the formal and sculptured properties of tribal art , also admired it intuitively for a more fundamental reason ; for its ‘ reasonable ’ or conceptual quality .
6 It was no fun , and the putrid bridie at the restaurant , thrown across the counter at me by a young waitress who clearly blamed me personally for the shortcomings in her life , was little consolation .
7 One of Alejandro 's sons playing back rode him off for the backhand and hit it up the field to his brother who dribbled it a few yards , then sliced it to Perdita .
8 His sports and hobbies frequently took him away for the best part of the weekend ; work also ate into parts of Saturday and Sunday .
9 ‘ I almost took you seriously for a minute .
10 In his second defence of the title , against the man he had beaten to win it in June , Wharton 's awesome blows cut Carr above his left eye and then had him down for a count of eight and unable to defend himself when he regained his feet .
11 Furthermore , when it became clear from the tone of the debate that Georgy Razumovsky , Gorbachev 's favoured candidate to head the key statutes commission ( responsible for finalizing the draft party rules ) , would be defeated , Gorbachev instead put himself forward for the post and was approved by a three-to-one majority .
12 I mentally signed him up for the STBO ( Stating the B — ng Obvious ) Club .
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