Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pers pn] [vb past] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ And that 's how it stayed for a long , long time . |
| 4 | This was when I learnt for the first time how experts conducted dealing for Jim came from a family of dealers . |
| 5 | They 're not tight , that 's why I went for a one cos I thought it 's like a trainer in n it ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Lowe was twelve when she married for the third time — to a psychologist — and he arrived , all corn-fed and terminally uncool , in Malibu . |
| 8 | Of course it 's not easy to keep up the smiles in public , as the couple showed in Seoul yesterday when they arrived for a five-day Korean visit . |
| 9 | But the employers persuaded them to hold off until 1966 , when they settled for a mere 5 per cent rise over the three years to 1969 . |
| 10 | I think people wanted a change and that 's why they voted for a liberal democrat councillor . |
| 11 | Lech Walesa became the first Polish President to visit Israel when he arrived for a four-day visit on May 20 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In a career that took him to Genoa where he played for the local side Sampdoria , he assumed an almost Italianate sense of style . |
| 15 | He was educated at Harrow , from where he went for a few months into his father 's City office , which he hated ; and he spent a term in Göttingen , learning German . |
| 16 | He had made a detour to a cafe where he stayed for an unspecified time before walking to the Post and entering by the back door , discovering the mayhem in the newsroom and retreating to the printer 's office . |
| 17 | Giles was held in high esteem in America and Europe , especially in Berlin , where he worked for a short time . |