Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [vb past] [verb] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was reminded of the statements of the stableman who had joined him for a drink at the Bull , situated at the end of Cross Street , and of the café owner where he had stopped for a fried breakfast . |
| 2 | The girl who had interviewed him for Leaders of Mankind . |
| 3 | But he was n't , and on some subconscious level she wanted to punish him for deceiving her . |
| 4 | Eventually , Reid said , ‘ All Susan ever said about her father was that he was a grade-A shit who 'd ignored her for most of her life and thought money was a good substitute for love . |
| 5 | For the next week I thought long and hard about undertaking an interview with the Queen Mother which would cover every aspect of her life but the great historical event which had changed it for ever ; which had propelled her and her husband to the throne , had made happy and glorious a reign which might otherwise have been disastrous , yet which was tragically cut short by illness and death , and which in the long run had made her far and away the most loved of all the members of the Royal Family . |
| 6 | To her horror , Folly saw Luke nod and turn away down the corridor , leaving her alone with this sinister whispering woman who seemed to take it for granted that she was meekly going to strip off and join in what could only be some kind of orgy . |
| 7 | She tried to control herself , but the will which had driven her for so long was broken , whether forever , or temporarily , she did not know . |
| 8 | Even that proved not enough to save her ; less than a year after her father 's passing , she finally succumbed to the illness which had beset her for so long , and was laid to rest at St John 's . |
| 9 | This predicament forced him to examine his goals and to make one last push for the success which had eluded him for so long . |
| 10 | He was still the hard , ambitious man who had married her for her father 's company , not for love . |
| 11 | Did she agonizingly miss the faithless Finn who had deserted her for a cross-eyed creature ? |
| 12 | The grandmother who had held him for a family photograph ; the mother Eda , the father Meir , the brothers Chaim , Avram , Aizik and Josef ; the sisters Selma and Esther . |
| 13 | Before he had become involved with Sien he had used her for some time as a model . |
| 14 | He was condemned by an image which had haunted him for over thirty years : a poor defenceless body Iying curled up in a vast flat dismal landscape , a father abandoned to his lonely fate . |
| 15 | Before his arrival she endeavoured to prepare herself for all exigencies , but this was difficult to do because she had no idea what sort of a man he was going to be . |
| 16 | The crux of the matter today is that those children were not listened to or believed when they complained to the very people in whose care we had put them for protection . |
| 17 | As people became more intensely aware of the pleasures of beauty they wanted to create it for themselves and another new source of happiness was discovered . |
| 18 | Less than a month before the Gold Cup he had produced what for many experts was his best performance ever when bouncing around Kempton Park to win the Racing Post Chase under top weight . |
| 19 | Subconsciously he must have been expecting something like this : his first reaction was not surprise but an intensification of the dull misery which had enveloped him for the last 24 hours . |
| 20 | Certainly , this was the way he needed to present it for domestic consumption , for this new alliance and the concession of territory for military use by a foreign power scarcely seemed consistent with the many hours and column inches he had devoted to demonizing the western democracies and to denouncing the British " occupation " of Gibraltar . |
| 21 | And he looks a lot better for the change , although I have to tell you that by the time I had grilled him for an hour and tested him out on the snooker table I did notice that he reached for a cigarette . |
| 22 | It was one of the joys of life , and particularly she loved dancing tonight with Tony Radcliffe , because he was her oldest friend in the world and this was the first time she had seen him for eighteen months . |
| 23 | The bell for Compline rang , the time she had set herself for hounding him out at the wicket , into a world he was , perhaps , already beginning to regret surrendering , but which he might have found none too hospitable to a runaway Benedictine novice . |
| 24 | His father who mended the broken wings of birds , his mother who had loved him for his gentleness ? |
| 25 | She allowed herself to feel all the pain she 'd denied herself for so long . |
| 26 | He went up , and it 's first time he 'd seen her for a while and she said something about , oh he was supposed to have something but he got to hear this well it 's got nothing to do with all the others . |
| 27 | Ronnie Ross : ‘ At the time he came to see me for lessons , groups like The Rolling Stones were just beginning to come into vogue although he was more interested in jazz , and we 'd sit and talk about jazz and jazz musicians quite often . |