Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [vb past] [pers pn] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Singleton sold them for two pounds each . |
| 2 | President Zia picked him for prime minister in March 1985 but he was criticised by the opposition for providing a democratic civilian facade to a military dictatorship . |
| 3 | Mr. Gordon had persuaded Sir George Phillips , who was a rather crabby old man , to let them use the Park for their meetings , but , all the same , Judy had the feeling that Mr. Gordon did it for Brown Owl and not at all for the Brownies . |
| 4 | They all knew that they had to go on fighting , and be strong for their children , and Mr Edwards commended them for that strength . |
| 5 | Deputy Judge Harold Hewitt jailed them for eight years each . |
| 6 | Judge William Hannah jailed him for 12 months and disqualified him from driving for six months . |
| 7 | Mary Whitehouse denounced it for encouraging in-corridor insurrection , while Russell Knott from the National Association Of Schoolmasters complained that it made the teachers look like twats . |
| 8 | Judge Lawrence Verney jailed him for seven years foreach of the rapes and four years for each of the indecent assaults , all to run concurrently . |
| 9 | Bob Willis 's Test career came to a sad end at Headingley in 1984 , as Michael Holding hit him for five sixes . |