Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [verb] [pers pn] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Double world light-middleweight champion , Diane Bell , showed no sign of the back injury that had sidelined her for the past month . |
| 2 | When they ignore the whole idea of pandering to a European market , they can be quite good , as in Tarkovsky 's Italian-funded productions , where he just carried on making the same film that had obsessed him for the past 30 years , only a bit more slowly . |
| 3 | The same sight would confront him that had confronted him for the past fifteen years . |
| 4 | They were the same officers that had arrested me for the charge I was on . |
| 5 | ( He had in fact put on weight while resting after Alfredo Alfredo , and needed to lose it for the role anyway . |
| 6 | After a chase on foot of over three miles he had finally run out of puff and offered to fight me for the goods . |
| 7 | In fact , Dustin was not unknown to Nichols , who had seen him in Journey of the Fifth Horse and had auditioned him for the Broadway musical The Apple Tree . |
| 8 | The Guardian of Jan. 9 , for example , reported that Chinese Communist Party ( CCP ) documents circulated internally in late December had been critical of Gorbachev and had blamed him for the " subversion " of socialism in Eastern Europe . |
| 9 | Applicants were given cash grants , usually no more than £75 , and trusted to use it for the purpose they had proposed - such as buying a bicycle to do a newspaper round , obtaining equipment for a camping trip , or acquiring the wherewithal to learn a new skill or a sport . |