Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] for the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked for the usual guarantees — that the object would n't endanger my ship or anyone on it , and that carrying it would breach no SenFed laws . |
| 2 | I lived for the six weeks almost as one of the Community except that I did not sleep at the Manor . |
| 3 | I looked for the black boots . |
| 4 | I now realise I looked for the wrong things . |
| 5 | I looked for the knitted garments that I used to help her with but they must have all been sold . |
| 6 | ‘ I thought I went for the Amazonian types , ’ he commented , ladling some of the food on to his plate warily . |
| 7 | I poured him a glass of the special malt which I kept for the rare occasions of celebration or consolation in my life . |
| 8 | those there , cos those are the ones I had for the European elections |
| 9 | I longed for the sweet delights of eternity , and I gave my soul over to love Christ with every ounce of my power … |
| 10 | RUNAWAY teenager Nicola Rogers told today why she headed for the bright lights of Blackpool after leaving her home 100 miles away four days ago . |
| 11 | She darted for the open doors and down the stone step to the garden . |
| 12 | For instance , when Paris designated the wanton APHRODITE as the most beautiful of the goddesses , Hera 's morals were affronted and she arranged for the Trojan Wars to occur as just recrimination for the slight . |
| 13 | You leapt for the cleaner banks and I allowed myself to be carried on by the filth of deceit , of shame , and of a guilt that even now I can not put into public or private words . |
| 14 | ‘ Down at Atholl , when you went for the new blades , ’ his wife answered from beside the fireplace . |
| 15 | She was known to all in the French Quarter for her good looks , her own hard-luck story ( two marriages , two troubled kids , a problem with drink ) and the soft spot she had for the hard-luck stories of others , poets in particular . |
| 16 | It seemed to fly OK , so we prepared for the 482 kilometres water crossing to Australia . |
| 17 | That 's all we did for the statutory undertakers . |
| 18 | It was exciting — they were good advertisements , and we waited for the first children to come . |
| 19 | They made for the outer offices , but it was too late . |
| 20 | It had not been posted from outside or even sent through the internal mail in one of the recycled envelopes Prince Charles insisted they used for the interminable memos that are a feature of Palace life . |
| 21 | they posed for the first photographs |
| 22 | Yes they came for the other islands . |
| 23 | But in so doing , they ignored a continuing problem ; and they created a new one , for the price they paid for the French troops who solved the English military problem was a monarch who was taught to be French and Catholic , and who would return to her country only when both these things clashed with the prevailing balance of power in Scotland . |
| 24 | Wanting to keep their plans secret , and convinced that ‘ no one would fund such a crazy idea ’ , they paid for the initial experiments out of their own pockets . |
| 25 | His mind recalled the familiar ambience of his trade ; men moving like black shadows behind the glare of the arc-lights the police cars tidily parked ; the flap of the screens , desultory voices conferring as they watched for the first lights of his approaching car . |
| 26 | They hankered for the bright lights of the capital , so in early 1778 they sold up and headed once again for London . |
| 27 | Any morning you could see them tearing through the tree-tops , chasing each other up and down as they searched for the red berries that they loved . |
| 28 | He recalled Blaney 's pallid and innocuous watercolours of the better-known beauty spots of Norfolk : Blakeney , St Peter Mancroft and the cathedral at Norwich , which he produced for the local shops . |
| 29 | He qualified for the light-middleweight semi-finals by beating Norway 's Ole Klemetsen . |
| 30 | ‘ We try to make it lighthearted for the other lads because there 's a lot of pressure . |