Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [pers pn] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Smith 's wife died in 1825 ; this loss made him for some time anxious to resign , and may help to account for the relative lack of distinction of his period of office . |
| 2 | It has now been decided to write to Rangers asking for their views on statements attributed to the three men since Ferguson 's club dropped him for disciplinary reasons , after which it came to light that Murray had spoken to United 's manager/chairman , Jim Mclean , about buying the Scotland internationalist . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's nigh on two year since I 've been out that house , ’ said Bella suddenly , ‘ since the Warden took me for that X-ray after I fell over and hurt me wrist . ’ |
| 4 | Doubts about the genuineness of his own faith troubled him for many years . |
| 5 | This brief experience as a merchant seaman qualified him for another voyage , this time on an American cargo vessel bound for London . |
| 6 | I was very nervous , and I found myself coming on very strong and direct with her , and saying , ‘ I liked Rosemary 's Baby , but the picture bothered me for this reason … |
| 7 | Late forties , husband left her for younger woman most likely . |
| 8 | In the early thirteenth century the canons and the laity left it for new Salisbury on the plain , by the river ; and Old Sarum survived only as a castle and a rotten borough . |
| 9 | Guilt besieged him for many years . |
| 10 | Terry Melchett , the supermarket manager , whose wife left him for another woman , gave me a hard shove in the small of the back . |
| 11 | But Mum knew them for crafty rogues and she had n't forgotten the coal . |
| 12 | The staff and right leg propelled me for forty yards until the leg gave way and the injured one , without a thought , took the strain and I ended up on my hands and knees ranting and raving . |
| 13 | Last year the Home Secretary reappointed him for five years : the first of the BBC 's 17 chairmen since incorporation in 1927 to receive a second full term . |
| 14 | The Head of Department replied that they were used mainly for the Sixth Form , for example , the History of Art' … my predecessor bought them for departmental use , but my belief is that kids should be actively involved in creative work , not passively looking at film — and we have difficulty with blackout , too'. ( verified note of meeting ) |
| 15 | The peregrine chased it for six miles , and even then the pigeon did not give in . |
| 16 | Sister Eillen Regan , from the board of education of the Roman Catholic archdiocese of San Francisco , says the board shunned it for two reasons : ‘ It treats nuclear war as survivable and implies nuclear war is a political option ’ . |
| 17 | The trust ran it for twenty years as something like the proprietors ' colonies of the previous century , but in 1752 it became a royal colony . |
| 18 | This is almost all that can be gleaned from broadly contemporary written sources about the Danish monarchy between c.950 and the accession c.987 of Swegen Forkbeard , who conquered England in 1013 , and whose son Cnut ruled it for nineteen years . |
| 19 | The Yanks had in fact had them for some months in the Scullery apartment . |