Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [pers pn] for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where Ann wrote it for last year , for my ri |
| 2 | I remember , one bloke , mind-reader he was — Steenie booked him for some Variety bill , forget where it was now . |
| 3 | His lips twisted in scorn , and Lissa hated him for that look . |
| 4 | ‘ Oh , dear , you do n't want to hear my stories , ’ he would say when Benny and Eve plagued him for some information . |
| 5 | When Jamie came in with the food at gloaming , Cameron asked him for another blanket . |
| 6 | Julia loved him for that protectiveness , too , and pulled her hand out of his to let him go . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | A decade ago , Kung Fu martial arts films were banned by Zambian cinemas after Kaunda attacked them for encouraging violence amongst youths . |
| 10 | They all knew that they had to go on fighting , and be strong for their children , and Mr Edwards commended them for that strength . |
| 11 | Angela asked us for some help with her wedding day look , she had been growing her old hairstyle out but realised it was n't going to be long enough for her wedding day in September . |
| 12 | At first Alistair took them for other screenplay writers and wedged himself behind the door , at the back of the queue . |
| 13 | For Prothero is the demon-king of the Poundian pantomime , ever since Pound cast him for this role by printing , at the end of his essay on De Gourmont — originally in the Little Review , then in Instigations ( 1920 ) — the letter which Prothero wrote him in October 1914 : |