Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [prep] [pron] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miguel promised to look after me for a year while I got some business experience before going to university . ’ |
| 2 | James bowed ironically and offered them the document ; Alexander Menzies pretended to think about it for a full five minutes and signed it with extraordinary flourishes that made the pen splutter and seemed to say , ‘ Very well , I will humour your ridiculous ritual . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I was so happy when he kinda stopped chewing on me for a second . ’ |
| 4 | I had photographs of Anne , naturally , and I 'd stared at them for a whole year , but they were n't very good . |
| 5 | He seemed to go from her for a moment , then he recollected where he was . |
| 6 | I think that often people did n't realise how tired and desperate they were until they 'd sat with her for a while . |
| 7 | He seemed to stand over her for an eternity , about to strike . |
| 8 | Neither was she too happy about the epithet ‘ min skat ’ , which he 'd applied to her for the second time that day . |
| 9 | Its bluish-black eyes seemed to focus on her for the first time . |
| 10 | She suffered so much when he did casuals that he 'd lied about it for a long time . |
| 11 | Mr. Mendez seemed to stare at him for a While , thinking or just looking . |
| 12 | Later , Baxter 's father and step-mother also came to live with him for a time . |
| 13 | Later , Baxter 's father and step-mother also came to live with him for a time . |
| 14 | I was so glad that the ‘ family ’ came to stay with me for a change . |
| 15 | She 'd slaved for him for the last seven year , and before that ever since she was born — eight or nine year was it — at the Old Mint ? |
| 16 | I 'd lived with them for a while . |
| 17 | But that was only because I 'd lived in it for a long time and I got a discount so the house was really |
| 18 | The lead fisherman wore shades ( ever see fish wearing glasses ? ) for the bluesy number and got rid of them for a rappy tune ( thank God ! ) . |
| 19 | Later , via a university revue at the Edinburgh Festival , he met Terry Jones and began co-writing with him for The Frost Report . |
| 20 | ‘ It is time that someone began to look after you for a change , Julia , ’ he said seriously . |
| 21 | Seventeenth August — visited No. 4 Commando ( French Troop ) and decided to remain with them for a few days , due mainly to their hospitality and the change of scene . |
| 22 | It had been with shame and some irritation that he had recognized in himself for the first time the nagging of jealousy . |
| 23 | And when he 'd finished , Ted had stared at him for a moment in open disbelief . |
| 24 | The County Council er w would train you but you 'd do your erm year 's training and then you had to work for them for a year , I think it was a year or eighteen months . |
| 25 | I had to work on them for a long time . |
| 26 | Dierdriu had looked at her for a long moment . |
| 27 | She had looked at him for a long time , at first solemnly and then with mounting anger . |
| 28 | Jane had come to us for the time being . |
| 29 | And then he looked in her direction , smiled and waved over the woman 's shoulder , continued to talk to her for a few moments , then laid a hand on her arm for an instant and moved towards Helen . |
| 30 | Iskandara had felt behind her for a chair back and now stood gripping it , her free hand clenched about the head of her stick . |