Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [vb pp] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | only insure our own league and so it , I mean insured for major contingencies and that |
| 2 | I was dead thin and not eating anything and then I got sacked for gross misconduct , y'know , for never going in and that . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'd hoped for personal service , ’ said Giles . |
| 4 | She looked me up and down and adjusted my tie an inch or so ( I 'd gone for green silk and I now had two ties ) , then said : |
| 5 | Adopted just five weeks ago ‘ I 'd tried for other seats but had n't got anywhere ’ he has been staying in Northallerton with Jim Stafford , the cheery and down to earth constituency agent . |
| 6 | I wear them most of the time , otherwise I 'd arrested for indecent exposure |
| 7 | They are at any rate central and have I believe served for various committees of inquiry , etcetera , before . |
| 8 | I had hoped for weeping willows , cedars of Lebanon , Lombardy poplars , seaweeds , perhaps deer antlers . |
| 9 | I had never lived there , although in my early childhood I had stayed for short periods ( but then my mind was occupied in forming pictures ; the time had not yet come for looking at those pictures , for interpreting them ) . |
| 10 | My breath smoked and I began to feel the wind-chill even through my sailing jersey and the special anorak I had bought for southern latitudes . |
| 11 | I almost wish now that I had settled for chronic asthma with which to punish Miller , dispensing with the limp and the sausage fingers altogether . |
| 12 | To the west , I 've gone for hot reds , yellows and oranges , planting a red-stemmed Cornus alba ‘ Westonbirt ’ to make a fiery contrast with the golden conifer . |
| 13 | The work I 've done for other people , getting things together , making things happen , sheltering the homeless , getting them fed — and as often as not , paying for it . |
| 14 | I 've worked for German Intelligence twice in this war . |
| 15 | During the twelve years that I 've been head teacher at this school I have waited for promised improvements at the crossroads , and in particular the Lane junction . |
| 16 | Yes , I have changed insurance companies and , yes , I have asked for written confirmation of cover . |
| 17 | And I have g I have paid for English lights just for the sake of a week |
| 18 | I have worked for Christian Aid , the ecumenical aid and development agency of the Protestant churches in the UK and Ireland , for seven years as Co-ordinator in the North West of England . |
| 19 | I have heard of other appointments which she has blocked for similar reasons , and in my lifetime can recall no other Prime Minister , Labour or Conservative , who felt the need to exercise such petty partisanship . |
| 20 | I 'll tell him who you are , and what you 've done for Russian art , etc . |
| 21 | Elizabeth retired a little earlier than she had planned for domestic reasons but says that she intends to keep in touch with colleagues . |
| 22 | Di wrote to her after the ceremony thanking her for all the work she had done for fellow cancer sufferers and for raising £40,000 towards the centre . |
| 23 | I 'm happy with the five hundred thousand pounds suggestion , but my view when you come to the papers , if we are able to hold on to the two hundred thousand contingency we 've got for community care for the elderly and , and the hundred thousand we 've got for bad debts and other figures . |
| 24 | Many years before we had looked for red kites , on a spring camping holiday in the valley of the River Tywi . |
| 25 | Smith , in India to watch both the Madras match and Friday 's final Test at Bombay said : ‘ One of the big reasons we have gone for four-day championship cricket is that it will encourage spinners to play a bigger part in our domestic game . ’ |
| 26 | Now although we can differentiate the products er agricultural products , we can only do that at the very final stage in processing , by and large , where there 's much less scope after product differentiation right , at the er the raw material erm level , which is where most agricultural trade continues er , most trade in agricultural products is in the raw commodity , not the refined commodity the refining , there might be the processing and the manufacturing , tend to occur in the country of consumption and not in the country of production a number of complicated , erm political reasons erm alright , but the but because there is n't the scope for product differentiation alright , we have n't witnessed an increase in intra industry trade in agricultural goods whereas we have done for manufactured goods because there is scope for intra industry trade er yeah scope for product differentiation . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , the intelligence that we have developed for other reasons may well ensure that we find the right answers to these questions . |
| 28 | ‘ We have applied for worldwide patents , and there is no question that we will have them ’ |
| 29 | ‘ We have applied for worldwide patents , and there is no question that we will have them , ’ Oag says . |
| 30 | ‘ We have applied for charitable status and we have come up with a slogan , Only Together We Can Win . ’ |