Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [pers pn] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His glance met hers for a brief , breathtaking moment , before he started forward , his stride slow , and rangy . |
| 2 | Sorrel watched him for a few seconds , then snatched it out of his hands and stuck it in her mouth . |
| 3 | The light dazzled us for a bare ten years with its brilliance , before it was extinguished . |
| 4 | My first girlfriend left me for a new man . |
| 5 | A 16-YEAR-OLD boy who fired a catapult at a low-flying Sri Lankan air force helicopter yesterday was wounded when the copter 's gunner mistook him for a Tamil terrorist and shot back at him . |
| 6 | Indeed , the fact that he did not refer her to a different psychiatrist convinced me for a long time that I had misconstrued the situation . |