Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] for [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Max Gate , the house Hardy designed for himself on the edge of town , is stranded behind a new roundabout and it is difficult now to imagine him setting out from there to ride along the lanes with Kipling or H. G. Wells . |
| 2 | It was too tempting a target , and the Zeppelin aimed for it with the last of its deadly cargo , but this time , they overshot the mark . |
| 3 | Vincente caddied for him for a while but it was an awkward role for a big brother . |
| 4 | For example in Les heureux époux and Silène ( book 2 ) , whose airs were lifted from Danchet and Campra 's censored ballet Les amours de Venus ( 1712 ) , the composer routinely set almost all the new recitatives Danchet wrote for them in the mode opposite to that of the air they precede , although there is no affective call for this . |
| 5 | But his baptism , administered to him by another , sealing physically upon him the objectiveness of what Christ did for him on the cross , that was indeed a ground of assurance . |
| 6 | Marion searched for him in the crowded room , and found him at last , talking to Sue 's dad near the window . |
| 7 | Henry II 's mistress , is told by CD in A Child 's History of England : ‘ It relates how the King doted on fair Rosamond … and how he had a beautiful Bower built for her in a Park at Woodstock ; and how it was erected in a labyrinth , and could only be found by a clue of silk . |
| 8 | I I went to Dolgarrog came for me with a car and Mr could n't be there . |
| 9 | At the end of the bed was a small card-table which Changez bought for her as a wedding present ; I 'd carried it back from a local junk shop . |
| 10 | Anselm fought for it with a tenacity which is only explicable if the whole scene which we have briefly surveyed is borne in mind : the primacy was the brightest of the dreams which the monks of Canterbury had inherited from their largely silent , ever-beckoning past , and on this question Anselm fell under the spell of the awe-inspiring tradition which he had helped to preserve . |