Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [prep] [pron] [noun pl] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since those who were politically important did not expect the occupant to remain there for long , they brusquely declined to listen to his requests for refurbishment . |
| 2 | This morning , having forced herself to her study , still wearing her dressing-gown and clutching a second cup of coffee as if it were attached to a lifeline , she began searching among her papers for the output of the previous day . |
| 3 | She washed quickly , the water barely lukewarm , but the tepid water helped clear her muzzy head , and she began running through her plans for the day — if she kept herself busy she could avoid the drink . |
| 4 | Perhaps a more sensitive test would be to examine the writings of puritans who did take an interest in science in seventeenth-century England to see what connections they did make in their schemes for reform . |
| 5 | They would be free from slavery , from work they were unsuited to do , but they lost a way of life , they had to look after their children for longer , they had to find other work to keep the family fed , clothed , rent paid etc . |
| 6 | Once the President had retired to his quarters for the short flight , the DDI opened the envelope he 'd been handed when he arrived at the airport . |
| 7 | Silvia had stuck to her promises for the first couple of days , but then had followed a catalogue of excuses and cancelled lessons that had left Ronni feeling angry and on edge . |
| 8 | The rage that had eaten at his guts for so long , and had launched him at Sergeant Lawrence — who even Jimmy knew was a good man at heart — would not serve him now . |
| 9 | All over the world , as I had observed on my travels for Panorama and TRI , countries which had long been administered by others were hoisting their own colours ; everywhere the idea of new-born nationhood was in the air . |
| 10 | I would like to have been watching the expression on his face , having put the question to him so bluntly , but just at that moment I had to slam on my brakes for two gaudily painted trucks , one of them with La Resurrección elaborately painted in red . |
| 11 | The banker who is leaving the casket to the State for display at Versailles by means of a dation , the payment of death duties in kind , refused to comment about his intentions for the van Gogh which Paris 's nineteenth-century Orsay Museum is keen on acquiring . |
| 12 | Nails stood looking at his feet for some time , as there was not much else to do . |
| 13 | Fathers too may respond in a positive way , but I definitely felt that fathers tended to have a more extreme reaction of anger of hurt , or said they were ashamed of their daughter , and felt let down , and some refused to speak to their daughters for days or weeks . |