Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [noun] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thanked God for the small wrist compass that I wore as a matter of habit whenever I set out in a boat . |
| 2 | Now Tim appears to have rekindled Princess Anne 's interest in sailing — she paid £94,000 for the 36-footer Blue Doublet earlier this year — and last year she made a glowing contribution to a celebrity compilation of ideas of Paradise . |
| 3 | She hated Nora for the double betrayal and swore that she would never forgive her . |
| 4 | She wrote articles for the Monthly Magazine during 1796 and 1797 , joining in debates about the female intellect and , under the influence of Claude-Adrien Helvétius , insisting on the recognition of environmental and educational influences . |
| 5 | Local committee organiser Angela Jones said : ‘ Thanks to the generosity of the people of Horneborough we raised £1,012 for the poor . |
| 6 | I er , in fact , we , yeah , we just had a problem yesterday , we started work for the Royal Scotsman and erm well we started work for them , like last year and we 've been doing jobs |
| 7 | We struck south-west for the old Roman Road which runs from Newark to London . |
| 8 | They designed kiosks for the British empire exhibition , Wembley ( 1924 ) , using simple shapes with colourful decoration . |
| 9 | They provided hospices for the sick or for raising the innumerable foundlings . |
| 10 | George Bernard Shaw was altogether more worldly-wise , observing that ‘ all professions are conspiracies against the laity , ’ and while they affected contempt for the medieval craft guilds , with their closed shops , the professions were in reality based upon very similar principles . |
| 11 | Luton are likely to insist on recouping the £135,000 they paid Leeds for the veteran midfielder , even though Kamara turned 35 on Christmas Day . |
| 12 | They raised £30,000 for the British Olympic Appeal . |
| 13 | When the 27-hour non-stop TV spectacular was last staged in 1990 , the Hampshire people proved as dotty as anyone in the bizarre ways they raised cash for the needy in the local community . |
| 14 | Their helicopter had developed engine trouble as they filmed scenes for the new Sharon Stone thriller Sliver . |
| 15 | ‘ They had regard for the previous exemplary record of West Ham and the fact that they have already taken action against their players concerned , ’ Kelly added . |
| 16 | Next came Cooder 's first real involvement with film-work ; over the next two or three years he produced soundtracks for The Long Riders , Southern Comfort and The Border . |
| 17 | In 1904 , he became candidate for the neighbouring borough of Kidderminster . |
| 18 | Already a common councilman for Queenhithe ( since 1711 ) and a well-known opponent of the great Whig financiers who dominated the City 's upper court , he became alderman for the Tory ward of Castle Baynard in 1722 and a leading City critic of Sir Robert Walpole . |
| 19 | He became MP for the Northern ( Oswestry ) division of Shropshire , 1906–29 . |
| 20 | Under the astute leadership of its general secretary , Bruce Kent , it made room for the various local and single-issue groups that were mushrooming around the country . |
| 21 | In 1575 , he built Almshouses for the poor at East Greenwich , the first of their kind founded by a Protestant at a cost of more than £2,700 , and in 1581 , he published another work on the Duties of Constables , Borsholders , Tythingmen and other law and Lay ministers of the Peace . |
| 22 | The very next year ( 1590 ) he provided music for the pastoral interludes of Tasso 's Aminta and two other pastorals which was in an ‘ altro modo di cantare che l'ordinario ’ , presumably some kind of recitative . |
| 23 | He provided portraits for the various colonial communities and dignitaries , and made pictorial ‘ views ’ and ethnic studies . |
| 24 | It confirmed support for the Federal Treaty [ see p. 38825 ] as " a constituent part of the [ future ] Russian Constitution " and the basis of nationalities policy . |
| 25 | The Lancet , smug from recent public health victories , captured the new mood of medical optimism in 1871 when it claimed success for the recent improvements in working-class habits . |
| 26 | Brutus had said that he killed Caesar for the general good but Antony is now saying that he did n't know why they killed him , otherwise he saying that it was n't for the general good . |
| 27 | It placed responsibility for the poor upon each parish , with the requirement , under the Acts of Settlement , that the itinerant poor should be returned , if necessary , to their parishes of origin . |
| 28 | Cray Research Inc , Eagan , Minnesota hopes that flattery will get it everywhere in Japan , and so it chose Tokyo for the worldwide launch of a range of new models in its C90 line to replace the existing Y-MP machines . |
| 29 | Cray Research Inc , Eagan , Minnesota hopes that flattery will get it everywhere in Japan , and so it chose Tokyo for the worldwide launch of a range of new models in its C90 line to replace the existing Y-MP machines . |
| 30 | He felt contempt for the soft lives of the TOP 's . |