Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pron] [noun sg] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anne tried to hide her eagerness for the idea . |
| 2 | Martinho had lost no time in recounting the true details of Osvaldo 's moment of weakness , the point at which he 'd flipped his lid for the first and last time in his career , that murderous aberration which had been the doom of old friend and new foe alike . |
| 3 | She 'd promised him money for the van , which she would make wearing that bloody badge . |
| 4 | Unfortunately I dived in one day without realising that the pool had been emptied ( I am short-sighted ) , and although my head turned out to be harder than the pool bottom , it seemed to dampen my enthusiasm for the sport . |
| 5 | This favourite phrase of hers , meaning uninformed opinion , seemed to underline her contempt for the situation in which I had placed myself : the young , married woman , abdicating intellectual effort , doing nothing but washing and cleaning and caring for her baby . |
| 6 | But the amazing thing was that , just after we 'd recorded our bit for the Gardeners ' World programmed , I spotted a couple of butterflies fluttering around the garden . |
| 7 | ‘ Mr McQuaid 's room is ready , ’ Maggie said as they prepared to take their leave for the night . |
| 8 | He condemned the " junta " in Tbilisi and vowed to continue his struggle for the restoration of " lawful authority " in Georgia . |
| 9 | I recently heard Alan Bennett talking about the humour in his plays and he said that he began to develop his ear for the ridiculous simply by listening to members of his family . |
| 10 | Husband sat back in his chair and began lighting his pipe for the third time . |
| 11 | Lord Sempill could not afford the time , and flew home , so Fred Crocombe decided to take his place for the rest of the flight , with Wood as the sole pilot . |
| 12 | WE started to rehearse our routine for the show . |
| 13 | I drove out of Newtown and went to begin my search for the mysterious man on the moor . |
| 14 | On Aug. 12 it was reported that the air and naval high commands had withdrawn their support for the President , dissociating themselves from the incidents of Aug. 10 . |
| 15 | It had given us stability for the past forty years . |
| 16 | Listening in their Castle Park home , his wife Virtue said Moore had altered her life for the worse . |
| 17 | The Development Office set about the business of fundraising and , in November , we were delighted to receive news that The Robertson Trust wished to increase its support for the extension , leaving the University with a fraction of the bill to pay . |
| 18 | The Grand Bazaar on 19th–21st November 1891 realised over £6,000 — much more than Agnew had hoped for , and by the end of 1892 , Agnew had met his target for the Building Fund , and work commenced on the new Institute . |
| 19 | On Jan. 2 the body of 17-year-old Andrés Arturo Gutiérrez Maya , who had confessed his responsibility for the March 1990 murder of Bernardo Jaramillo Ossa , the presidential candidate of the left-wing Patriotic Union party ( UP ) [ see p. 37312 ] , was found , along with that of his father , in an abandoned car in Medellín . |
| 20 | All his life he had sought her pardon for the failure which she either could not or would not spell out for him . |
| 21 | One Sunday morning , about a week after I had seen my dad for the second time , I was lying in bed when I heard voices in the street below . |
| 22 | I thought she might add , ‘ And she 's bloody well going to wear it ’ , but my mother had said her piece for the moment . |
| 23 | Perhaps she had known it would happen , perhaps he had answered her call for the same reason . |
| 24 | Nutty was jealous of Nails 's riding Switchback with Biddy all to himself every night but had to admit it had saved their chance for the competition . |
| 25 | On the day after the Cease Fire he had been granted an audience with the Chairman of the Revolutionary Council and he had argued his case for the revitalisation of his dream . |
| 26 | General Nocenzi had offered his office for the young Prince 's use , and it was there , at the very top of the vast , three-hundred-level fortress , that he planned to meet the boy . |
| 27 | It seemed that the local inhabitants had betrayed their past for the sake of the fictitious glamour which the new name was imagined to convey . |
| 28 | Consequently , our lads , whenever they wished to express their contempt for the French , would show them two fingers . |
| 29 | Visiting the Upper Nile state on Feb. 21 he again referred to the exclusion of the southern states from sharia law and said that citizens had shown their support for the " new political system and transference of powers to the people " . |
| 30 | Recalling what he knew of the ardours and achievements of Freeborn 's forty odd years in the Forensic Science Service , the difficult war years , the delayed retirement , the last five years when he had exchanged his directorship for the frustrations of bureaucracy , Dalgliesh said : |