Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [verb] [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Edward continued to stand there for another minute or two . |
| 2 | IT WAS THE SUMMER HOLIDAYS AND ANTHONY HAD COME HOME FOR good , or rather until he found a job . |
| 3 | Cranmer continued to play infrequently for three years after giving up the captaincy , and deeply regrets the passing of the amateur in today 's game . |
| 4 | There were signs that Sir Charles had stood there for some time . |
| 5 | Kersey and Wycliffe had worked together for several years and their temperaments complemented each other . |
| 6 | Nesta Webster , however , who was a member of the grand council for three months in 1926 and 1927 , thought that the BF had done more for British patriotism than all the other middle-class organizations put together , and soon after leaving established a Patriots Enquiry Centre , a kind of Die-hard library where the ultra-right could study the socialist menace . |
| 7 | He wrapped the body in a pair of curtains , then phoned his parents to say Dean had left home for good , Birmingham Crown Court was told . |
| 8 | Elizabeth Beesley had lived here for 37 years before Robert Maxwell made her an offer she could n't refuse . |