Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [pers pn] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I fought it for a long time and I wanted to get kick-started back to where I was before , because I felt under a cloud . |
| 2 | I earned quite a lot of money by showing my Lilliputian animals to people , and in the end I sold them for a high price . |
| 3 | I sold it for a reasonable price . |
| 4 | ‘ I did n't know at the time it had been in the Quakers boardroom but it was a good , handmade , solid oak table and I got it for a reasonable price , ’ he said . |
| 5 | Well I stuck it for a long time , Di went to sleep and I got out and I had a look and I , the only thing that I could see , and it was two o'clock , half past two this morning , er the er the one side of the big house over there was full of lights , they had all the lights on and there were two cars outside with their lights on . |
| 6 | In fact I knew her for a tough-minded young woman with feminist leanings and rather more interest in student politics than would be helpful in her academic work . |
| 7 | I lived with my husband for er , three and a half years , and I knew him for a good number of years before then , so we made a joint decision after that period of time that we were , wanted to commit ourselves |
| 8 | Soon after I got him I noticed a lump under his tummy , so I took him for a thorough check-up . |
| 9 | Yeah , I said yeah I am , I said I 'm gon na drive up and see , so we got in , went up to Wendy 's , you could n't see through the door Pen , Penny and Kev said well we 'll drive round as well , I said well she 's had us up and down , cos one minute she was quite strong then the next she could n't cope , I said Wendy all I want you to ever know is that I 'm there , if ever you want me phone me , I do n't care whether it 's middle of the night , middle of the morning or whatever , so she says alright , anyway Penny went up , she said she could n't see anything she thinks she 's gone a bed and then me and Rudy went up , it must have been quarter to one cos I took him for a little walk and I got out the car and walked round the back and then , I could see her curtains were open and I could see a light on , so I went round the front and I shouted through the letter box , Wen it 's only me I 've come to wish you a happy new year , let's hope next year will be better than this one and she come to the door and she was broken hearted |
| 10 | No , no , I said to Richard is , is , Debbie not feeling well enough to come here , no I took her for a little ride round the . |
| 11 | I denied it for a long time because I was so determined to make this marriage work , but the reality was that we did n't really care for each other any more , or at least somewhere among all the battles our love had been well and truly buried . |
| 12 | I said I wanted it for an amateur production of James Saunders A Scent of Flowers — a play I knew well and which required a coffin to be positioned downstage during the entire action . |
| 13 | Short of battering him on the head with a blunt instrument — the thought held immense appeal , and she savoured it for a long moment , before reluctantly putting it on hold — she could n't come up with any way out of the present situation . |
| 14 | ‘ You dropped him for the Prime Minister . ’ |
| 15 | I was not proposing to ask her about her relationship , or lack of it , with Edward VIII and Mrs Simpson , or to what degree she blamed them for the unexpected and , at the time , unwelcome change in her life . |
| 16 | I used to go and fetch the , the butter from do n't bring margarine my father used to say we put better stuff on our machines so er I used to go to for my father kept foul , I used to fetch a peck of , bushel of this and a bushel of , you know all the various things that , bran and stuff for the foul yes , yes and I believe a lady , she has , she 's only recently died and but she kept it for a long long while Elsie her name was . |
| 17 | Five years ago , you nominated me for the National Executive of the Labour Party . |
| 18 | you left me for a classical guitarist . |
| 19 | And as your career prospects have changed so dramatically in just a year , I 'd say your girlfriend was probably justified in feeling you left her for no good reason . |
| 20 | but then you left him for an American carpenter . |
| 21 | We tried it for a whole year . |
| 22 | They won it for the outstanding service that they had given two clients , Comfort Cooling and PSA . |
| 23 | they wanted me for the whole day of Friday but I said I 'm sorry I can only do you half day if you 're interested , they were , they were desperate . |
| 24 | His eyes were ice-bright , and pierced her like twin blades as he regarded her for a long moment . |
| 25 | He studied her for a long time , then reached out and touched a wet strand of her hair . |
| 26 | Unfortunately , for example , he believed certain things which were wrong ( such as the tenets of Unitarianism ) , and he believed them for the wrong reasons ( such as the theistic proofs ) . |
| 27 | Jobless Shepherd told a court his labrador Flash was savaged by a pit bull terrier as he took her for a late-night walk after drinking at a local club . |
| 28 | He was glad to see him , for he knew him for a tough , sturdy fellow , who was considered certain to get into the Owsla as soon as he reached full weight . |
| 29 | It poured out into the still night and Nuadu shivered , because he knew it for the evil magic of the Dark Ireland ; the ancient , malevolent enchantment of the necromancers . |
| 30 | Paintings erm have the power to take you back in time , I can look at a painting and remember something that 's happened yesterday or years and years ago and as a small child , looking at this painting I remembered as a small child seeing for the first time erm the sea dipping into er , sorry the sun dipping into , into the sea and being horrified I was convinced that the heat of the sun would boil the oceans and the world dry and it reminded me for an awful lot of my childhood and I 'm sure if I 'd seen this painting years ago it would of persuaded me otherwise , erm this is called In A Days Work Satisfaction in a days work , chosen not given , eating the laxed food , face turned to steer a sun , making cloth into a gown and giving colour to the side of a boat |