Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [vb past] for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After replacing the 'phone I waited for the tingling to stop then looked at my watch . |
| 2 | I put aside some of the money I got for the silver , because Daddy meant to divide his things between us both . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ If you must have chapter and verse — you remember that piece I did for the Statesman ? |
| 4 | In the camp canteen I looked for the woman who had encouraged me to come to what , by the minute , I was beginning to feel was a god-forsaken hole . |
| 5 | Then at top speed she raced for the keeper 's cottage . |
| 6 | Among his patrons was Lord Conway , a wealthy Irish peer whose agent he became for the purchase of rare books in London . |
| 7 | In effect it provided for the dismemberment of Abyssinia and the giving to Mussolini of about half of what he had set himself to achieve by conquest . |
| 8 | It is unfortunate that Dustin did not similarly mime the songs he sings while strumming a guitar ( an instrument he studied for the part ) , because his singing voice is strained and uncomfortably high . |
| 9 | With a resolute nod she reached for the telephone . |
| 10 | On leaving Oxford without a degree he studied for the stage at the Embassy Theatre School , and made his London début at the Queen 's Theatre on 6 September 1937 with ( Sir ) John Gielgud in Shakespeare 's Richard II . |
| 11 | When I went to live in the attic , Jean-Claude still took it for granted that the wood he needed for the stove should be filched from the railway sidings . |
| 12 | At last he raised his head , and with a feeling of dread she searched for the triumph she was sure she must see now in his eyes . |
| 13 | ‘ Poor thing , ’ she might have said another time , but now any sympathy she had for the machine was swamped by her fears for her children . |
| 14 | Despising herself for her weakness she reached for the telephone , dialling Nick 's number . |
| 15 | When both mares began aiding and abetting one another to increase the confusion and alarm , somewhere high over the Gulf I made for the cabin to solicit help . |
| 16 | There is nothing worse than being told ‘ Yes , we had a lovely book all about the fête we held for the coronation , but I have n't seen it for some years . |
| 17 | On his own decision to go for the draw with a last-minute John Liley penalty , Richards said pointedly : ‘ Trying to win the game by opting for the scrum would have been a waste of time because the moment we drove for the line , they would have wheeled it or collapsed it . |
| 18 | There was a special pole they used for the purpose . |
| 19 | During this period it provided for the suspension of government subsidies to industry and industrial promotion benefits ( a form of tax relief to companies in the interior ) , and for a halt to subsidies to provincial administrations . |
| 20 | Well I know the article he wrote for the Society 's Quarterly . |
| 21 | When he left Serbia in 1813 he joined the South Slav community in Vienna , where he came to the notice of the imperial censor for Slavonic languages as a result of an article he wrote for the newspaper Srpske Novine ( Serbian News ) . |
| 22 | Certainly the saw he bought for the mill I think that has great prospects and you know there 's no two ways about it , it could help production and ease the work of the workforce . |
| 23 | The day I came for the job . |
| 24 | But the only person I saw for the rest of that day , besides the German who brought my food and took me to the lavatory , was the English orderly . |
| 25 | This was confirmed when Epson quoted £200 for a 2Mb memory module — that 's nearly half the price I paid for the PC ! |
| 26 | At 3.30am the following day they left for the summit , Wanda climbing slowly by herself while Carlos , who was going well , reached the summit at 5pm . |
| 27 | He described himself as the ‘ natural son ’ of his parents on his baptism certificate , and this may explain the affinity he felt for the boy . |
| 28 | The scheme was expensive , with in effect £8000 of public money being spent on each dwelling , since the local authority contribution to UDG almost exactly cancelled out the price it received for the land . |
| 29 | The yield to the purchaser then depends on the difference between the price he paid for the bill and its redemption value . |
| 30 | I remember once that I could not and with one swoop she was upon me — over the head , down the back , on my bare legs , until in agony and terror I ran for the house screaming for my father . |