Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [vb pp] [pers pn] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd only have done it for the money , ’ she admits , ‘ It was a bit of a mish-mash . ’ |
| 2 | If only conventions were not so rigid she could easily have had him for a lodger . |
| 3 | Nothing Ruth had ever imagined prepared her for the magnificence of that day 's scene on the Mersey , though she saw most of it through a mist of tears . |
| 4 | When that news hits him , the narrator seems to crumble , even though a premonitory dream the night before has readied him for the shock . |
| 5 | I feel so comfortable with your mother and the whole time here has changed me for the better . ’ |
| 6 | ( Some would have already recovered the development value of the land by selling at a high price ; others may never have wished to develop their land , and , indeed , might even have bought it for the express purpose of preventing its development . ) |
| 7 | Their own educational socialization primarily through classics could not adequately have equipped them for the task of the " total " administration of a national culture . |