Example sentences of "[vb -s] [vb pp] [pron] for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As far as I know , the Canadian Rugby Union has received nothing for the development , or even the maintenance , of our cash-strapped programme . |
| 2 | When that news hits him , the narrator seems to crumble , even though a premonitory dream the night before has readied him for the shock . |
| 3 | I am glad that she has joined us for the debate . |
| 4 | But he has forsaken them for the moment , at least in his current Emmerich show , ‘ Some Very Recent Paintings ’ ( opening 14 January ) . |
| 5 | TV COMIC Tony Slattery has sketched himself for a charity auction — starkers . |
| 6 | If you suggest that he has done anything for a base motive such as money , he replies , ‘ That does not do justice to you , or to me . ’ |
| 7 | For this is the beach club that really has got EVERYTHING for the family . |
| 8 | The new Eve momentarily wants to be a tragedy queen ; for a few flickering instants , she wants to be like almost ali the characters in literature whom we find most beguiling — Cleopatra , Anna Karenin , Madame Bovary , Eve herself in Paradise Lost — a figure who has risked everything for the sake of une grande passion . |
| 9 | If he has become a hero to the Muslim masses outside , and probably to a lot of Third World non-Muslims , it is not on his merits , but because the United States , with gratuitous and superfluous aid from Britain , has cast him for the part . |
| 10 | For example , there is a right way and a wrong way of answering a stranger who has asked you for the time . |
| 11 | The signing of Byrne is exciting … he gets goals … has scored them for a list of clubs … |
| 12 | Just turned forty , Frank is married to his job , his wife has left him for a colleague , and when he encounters the sexually predatory Helen ( Ellen Barkin ) he breaks one of the first rules in the book by falling for a suspect . |
| 13 | That he 's owed me for a year ! |
| 14 | It 's done nothing for the box . |
| 15 | and erm she 's had it for a couple of days but we thought she was getting over it this morning . |
| 16 | He 's had it for a week . |
| 17 | Er , probably Paul 's had it for the night . |
| 18 | It 's been bought by the man who 's run it for the RSPCA for the last eight years . |
| 19 | ‘ Perhaps he 's taken them for a holiday ? ’ |
| 20 | If er someone 's taken it for a ride and dumped it near you then can you call Nottingham and it 's Dawn who wants her car back anything I can do you for three four three four three four is the number to ring . |