Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [vb past] [pron] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Small things delighted him ; when Bowler 's mother knitted him a sweater he wore it for a period continuously . |
| 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 | Mary had a metal cow she bought it for a tanner and every morning just at six she milked it with a |
| 4 | That is where I spilled vodka on it the day I wore it for the first time . ’ |
| 5 | By chance he landed me for a swim at Moutsa down there . |
| 6 | Last season they won it for the second year in succession with some ease , and without their players being seriously extended . |
| 7 | I earned quite a lot of money by showing my Lilliputian animals to people , and in the end I sold them for a high price . |
| 8 | ‘ The first time I took him for a walk without a harness , he had a bit of a job to work that out as well . |
| 9 | In fact I knew her for a tough-minded young woman with feminist leanings and rather more interest in student politics than would be helpful in her academic work . |
| 10 | She would remind Froggy of it the next time he ragged her for a noodle . |