Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pron] for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you If you paid it The Co was up on the Tuesday , you had to have it paid Most people tried to pay it for the Thursday and that was the turn of the leaf , on the Thursday and if you paid that then you could go straight away that day and get your new quarter stuff , for the next quarter . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd heard him for a bit by then . |
| 3 | He 'd picked up some cream that they 'd given me for a skin rash , stuck it under my blindfold and said , in a curious high-pitched waver , ‘ Champignons ? ’ |
| 4 | Princesse Mathilde came to see them for a weekend . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , Dacre came to find me for the purpose of asking my permission to address you , ’ said Kirtlington . |
| 6 | The name seemed to halt him for a moment , but when his hands were again moving over her , the scream she let out crying , ‘ Mother ! |
| 7 | He went up , and it 's first time he 'd seen her for a while and she said something about , oh he was supposed to have something but he got to hear this well it 's got nothing to do with all the others . |
| 8 | She had not merely been a housekeeper but her qualities of efficiency , cheerfulness and gastronomic expertise seemed to fit her for the task of looking after this unusual pair . |
| 9 | Once a femur or a forearm would have played a pure note if you 'd used one for a pipe , but the pieces would whistle harsh and offkey now from the holes bored into them by the efficient mandibles of her companions in the vertical grave , the cenote where they placed her after the battle , during the truce . |
| 10 | Juliet wondered if he 'd re-stocked it for the occasion . |
| 11 | Instinctively , I dipped my fingers in the holy water and crossed myself , remembering the Catholic aunt in South Armagh who 'd raised me for a while as a child and had anguished over my black little Protestant soul . |
| 12 | Perhaps if I 'd entered him for the Champion Hurdle , he might have sold . |
| 13 | His eyes seemed to study her for a moment . |
| 14 | Vass spread his long fingers over the chair arms and seemed to contemplate them for a moment . |
| 15 | But they 'd asked me for an epitaph not an editorial and , in any case , I 'd already got the clear impression that most of these unaccustomed mourners could recognise a tolling bell when they heard it , but that like so many of the other warnings that had been laid on them over the years by teachers , social workers and magistrates , they had simply decided that any other way of life was simply too dull , too straight , even to be contemplated . |
| 16 | Guido took a mouthful of his Cynar and seemed to savour it for a moment . |
| 17 | Oh god I thought I 'd lost it for a minute |
| 18 | Harry Lamb worked on his father 's farm , managed on five hours ' sleep a night and studied to prepare himself for the Church of Ireland ministry . |
| 19 | Luke 's kiss , withheld to torment her for a moment while he stared into her darkened eyes , was an insult when it came , and yet insufficient to her hunger , because his mouth was torn away from hers again almost at once , plunging to suckle hard at one exposed breast for several agonising seconds , the message blatant — she was desired , and despised . |
| 20 | Only got to do it for a second . |
| 21 | Hamnett became irate and , alleging breach of contract and damage to her image , threatened to sue him for a £500,000 . |
| 22 | Some connection having been made in his mind , he began to rebuke her for a belief in the reality of Noah 's Ark , which he referred to sarcastically as the Myth of the Deluge . |
| 23 | If someone was looking for The Bar in those days — because there was no name written up or sign for it , no lights at all , and not even a number on the door , Madame liked to keep it that way even when she did n't have to any more — I mean when she opened up we may all have been in a sort of hiding , and not many people knew about The Bar and our life there , but it was n't that way later , and now you know we can have lights and advertising and you see boys queueing up outside every night , very public , and I like to see that — but in those days , in those days if somebody arranged to meet you for a date there , and it was their first time and they were n't sure how to find us , you 'd joke with them , and you 'd say well first there is a wedding , and then there 's a death , and there 's the news , and then there 's us ; meaning , first there 's the shop with the flowers , the real ones , and next door to that is the undertaker 's with the fake flowers in the window , china , all dusty ; and then the newsagent 's and magazine shop , and then right next door to that is The Bar . |
| 24 | He decided to wear it for the rest of his life . |
| 25 | ( He had in fact put on weight while resting after Alfredo Alfredo , and needed to lose it for the role anyway . |
| 26 | The ‘ younger people ’ as they were known started to ready themselves for the expedition which started the next day . |
| 27 | We decided to hire him for the day , and negotiated a price . |
| 28 | Meanwhile , in Orange , it was time for Christmas , and the section started to organise itself for the festivities . |
| 29 | They undertook to do it for the whole of the Caldmore area did they ? |
| 30 | She decided to leave it for a while . |