Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [vb past] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I paid for the electric motor of the engine to be serviced , but it never worked very well . |
| 2 | So we settled for the International Press Centre … |
| 3 | One of these had married an Indian Christian doctor , and together they worked for the sick and wounded , although badly handicapped by the lack of medicines . |
| 4 | Yesterday they lost for the second time when they fell 6-7 , 7-6 , 6-3 , 6-4 to Todd Witsken of the United States and Jorge Lozano of Mexico . |
| 5 | Yesterday they lost for the second time when they fell 6-7 , 7-6 , 6-3 , 6-4 to Todd Witsken of the United States and Jorge Lozano of Mexico . |
| 6 | Yesterday he smiled for the last time and said he did not wish to obstruct the work of Prime Minister Hans Modrow — who now constitutes , with a small group of associates from Dresden , the only remaining acceptable face of reform within the East German Communist Party . |
| 7 | She had n't missed him at all when he died , but now she realized for the first time that she had lost her father . |
| 8 | A month ago he had come to see her and now she understood for the first time that what he had said to her then would change her life . |
| 9 | There were things he consciously noticed about people which he brought to mind long after he had ceased to watch them , but now he noted for the first time that she had very small feet — they could have belonged to the oriental he had imagined her to be through the sun haze . |
| 10 | Well I worked for the past two year really |
| 11 | Here we lived for the next fifteen years , with the eighteenth-century kirk across the road , and from my study window at the front a clear thirty-mile view across the Tweed valley to the distant Cheviots . |
| 12 | At least we did for the longer |
| 13 | Then they left for the 13-mile drive to their luxurious home at Corston , near Bath . |
| 14 | ‘ A word about your weapons , gentlemen , ’ he smarmed , then he went for the quick draw and levelled a long-barrelled pistol at all of us . |
| 15 | Then he worked for the British . ’ |
| 16 | Instead she settled for the three most applicable adjectives she could think of . |
| 17 | Instead he served for the next three yearswith a merchant shipping company . |