Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [vb past] [pron] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was an experience which steeled him for the future task of having as many as a dozen major country houses under construction in any one year . |
| 2 | I was not proposing to ask her about her relationship , or lack of it , with Edward VIII and Mrs Simpson , or to what degree she blamed them for the unexpected and , at the time , unwelcome change in her life . |
| 3 | That is where I spilled vodka on it the day I wore it for the first time . ’ |
| 4 | The military historian , James Lucas , who served in Tunisia as Keyes 's runner , remembered him as ‘ a gallant Christian gentleman who sacrificed himself for the men under his command ’ . |
| 5 | Last season they won it for the second year in succession with some ease , and without their players being seriously extended . |
| 6 | She remembers the time he was coming out of his flat in the midst of a rainstorm and was approached by a young man who asked him for the price of a meal . |
| 7 | His seat is secure but he is also seeing the man who defeated him for the party leadership on the way to another victory for the Tories . |
| 8 | A case of bread and circuses , and it 's about time someone said it for the rave generation . |