Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pers pn] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to press him for some specifics , but he was n't saying much . |
| 2 | Nobody came to see me for three days . |
| 3 | She 'd suspected it for some time , but last week had seen it for herself . |
| 4 | I 'd done it for four years on the trot . |
| 5 | It seems that she had fallen in love with him but she " did n't know where I was at all " with him ; he would be most affectionate towards her and then , for no apparent reason , seemed to avoid her for protracted periods . |
| 6 | She 'd had it for seven years , and it had been a few years old when she and Tony had bought it . |
| 7 | I think it was a car that she 'd had for was well looked after her dad used to see to it for her but it was she 'd had it for some years and she was always poodling about in you see . |
| 8 | Hagans said he 'd known her for two years and they 'd met by appointment . |
| 9 | Lucy knew she had to tell him something , so she said , ‘ She got mad with me when I admitted you 'd taken me for two bush walks . |
| 10 | The race was the brainchild of Chay Blythe , he 'd planned it for 4 years and raised the money for 10 million pound yachts . |
| 11 | She 'd chosen it for that reason — and because it was the colour of wine . |
| 12 | Two days later , Clare 's mind was unexpectedly diverted from her personal problems — no job , no man — when the CND office telephoned to ask her for voluntary evening help : they were organizing another protest after a nuclear accident . |
| 13 | Charles decided to play it for light comedy . |
| 14 | Like many people , however , I decided to leave it for another day . |
| 15 | Certainly , this was the way he needed to present it for domestic consumption , for this new alliance and the concession of territory for military use by a foreign power scarcely seemed consistent with the many hours and column inches he had devoted to demonizing the western democracies and to denouncing the British " occupation " of Gibraltar . |
| 16 | The President had also apparently abandoned his aim of holding the first round of legislative elections on Oct. 25 [ see p. 39086 ] , and agreed to reschedule them for late November ( with a number of opposition parties still calling for a further postponement ) . |
| 17 | He had treated her for several months using her husband as an interpreter — as though her husband were an objective witness to her depression . |
| 18 | Anyway , I 'd been very busy the day before and Doreen had irritated me for other reasons . |
| 19 | The argument is familiar — Lord Gordon-Walker said he had heard it for forty years — but , even more , it is a political argument . |
| 20 | He fixed his mind on a rule his father had given him for public speaking : Get a vague plan and then say anything that comes into your head . |
| 21 | Mohawk Grand Chief Joe Norton warned that there would be further violence unless the Quebec authorities agreed to return policing of the reservation to the control of the Indians , who had policed it for 11 years prior to the outbreak of the 1990 trouble . |
| 22 | Later , from South Africa , he wrote to thank me for this advice , but now he reciprocated by telling me , with great gentleness , that I should not go on hoping , as he himself had searched the P.O.W. lists , and Leslie 's name was not on any of them . |
| 23 | What could be anticipated with confidence was the beneficial results of redistribution , for Unionists had expected them for some time . |
| 24 | In addition to securing Commonwealth support for their position , the British sought to consolidate their own aviation policy into some definable form , something which had eluded them for several years . |
| 25 | They had known all along they had a good , competitive car ; a single mistake had mired them for three races ; it was now solved and they could build for the future . |
| 26 | For Small , getting out the magazine that had absorbed her for two years was the commitment , not this eccentric lurch into the unknown . |
| 27 | Nothing in his many years ' service had prepared him for this sort of situation . |
| 28 | Shocking as the assault had been , it had prepared her for another encounter — an encounter with a youth of her own age , bewildered and uneasy , one called to high estate who found himself of a sudden alone on the edge of an abyss … |
| 29 | In June 1548 , when the Scots had suffered it for four years , lord Methven reported to Mary of Guise the results of his inquiries as to why the Englishmen were favoured . |
| 30 | Delaunay felt that the basis of his art was ‘ simultaneous ’ contrasts of colour , a concept which he adopted from Chevreul , whose colour theory had interested him for some time . |