Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [pers pn] [vb past] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Russian official recently so upset his domestic association that they suspended him for two months , although UEFA insist : ‘ He 's still one of the best referees in Europe and the right man for the job . ’ |
| 2 | The Russian official recently so upset his domestic association that they suspended him for two months , although UEFA insist : ‘ He 's still one of the best referees in Europe and the right man for the job . ’ |
| 3 | It was a bitter irony that he condemned her for loving a man who was out of reach . |
| 4 | As with the girl who died earlier in the year , this beaker of solution was in her bedroom and she mistook it for a bedtime drink . |
| 5 | My father said the 17-horse power would use too much petrol , but it gave me a year 's pleasure before I swopped it for an A30 van . |
| 6 | Approaching the signal box he mounted the steps , the hand-rail creaking as he used it for support . |
| 7 | Well , you 're a bigger fool than I took you for . ’ |
| 8 | We decided to show it to a booking agent who books cabaret , so I spoke to Harry Dawson who did a lot of , cabaret work and we auditioned it for him . |
| 9 | yesterday right in the park and he hugged me for about ten years . |
| 10 | His membership of the Conservative party was to prove of short duration and he left it for good just before the government of 1931 was formed . |
| 11 | Actress Robin Givens gave the man a bloody nose after he mistook her for a hooker while she was filming in Chicago . |
| 12 | Stephen was talking to a tall , elegantly dressed woman , who looked younger than she actually was , and her much older husband when she joined him for lunch in the beach bar . |
| 13 | He had the operation the next day and they took us for a couple of minutes and that was it — they just did n't care . |
| 14 | Yeah , because it should of been fifteen pounds a night and we got it for ten |
| 15 | She came over to me one night and she asked me for a lift . |
| 16 | He has two grown-up children , Dean and Roberta , by his first marriage to a former model , Tina , which broke up in a blaze of publicity after he left her for Stephanie . |
| 17 | I can not recall an occasion when he asked me for help before . |
| 18 | The woman sent her surprise to PCs Rob Barrett and Phil Hogan at Brighton police station a week after they arrested her for stealing shoes . |
| 19 | Suragai 's hands were already scratched and bleeding , and he was cursing quietly in his own tongue as he positioned himself for another rescue attempt . |
| 20 | I do n't want that to happen to my daughter so I smacked her for stealing and lying . ’ |
| 21 | My boss returned along the passage at a furious gallop and I steeled myself for some unpleasantness as the young man was rousted from his bed . |
| 22 | He sat with me and watched Jo Spence 's documentary on her fight against a serious illness and he admired her for her spirit and for using her work to get through her situation . |
| 23 | BOWLER Vic Macey joked he 'd break a pal 's leg if he hit him for four at a Paignton cricket match — then DID accidentally after the game . |
| 24 | He fumbled a packet from the pocket of his anorak and I lit one for him with the dashboard lighter . |
| 25 | Bishop O'Brien made us feel that we were a very important part of the world-wide Church and he encouraged us for our future as adult members of the Catholic Church . |
| 26 | I experienced the joy and excitement of the subject as I discovered something for the first time . |
| 27 | They sat in the corner and he pumped her for any information she might have gleaned from Wickham . |
| 28 | Jobless Shepherd told a court his labrador Flash was savaged by a pit bull terrier as he took her for a late-night walk after drinking at a local club . |
| 29 | And this er oh dear what was the name of it , they had a special title for the man that sort of ran the stall as they called it for getting the coal out and he he chose who he wanted to go to work . |
| 30 | Cross soon secured his place in the Palace line-up and he held it for a long time , but his partnership with Jack Little for three seasons was a much-admired feature of the Palace defence . |