Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pers pn] for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd suspected it for some time , but last week had seen it for herself . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | She 'd chosen it for that reason — and because it was the colour of wine . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Charles decided to play it for light comedy . |
| 6 | Like many people , however , I decided to leave it for another day . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | What could be anticipated with confidence was the beneficial results of redistribution , for Unionists had expected them for some time . |
| 11 | Nothing in his many years ' service had prepared him for this sort of situation . |
| 12 | 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 … |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | When he handled her breasts they were tender ; she had noticed it for some time . |
| 15 | Tony 's mother had made them for this occasion , and though recipes vary slightly the end result is a large currant biscuit . |
| 16 | The paper owner , the local council , had bought it for eventual use as a road , but had no immediate use for it . |
| 17 | Before he had become involved with Sien he had used her for some time as a model . |
| 18 | Just over half of the teachers claiming to have seen the booklet said they had used it for in-service training in their school . |
| 19 | They could purchase land from owners who refused to sell for development or from builders who wished to retain it for future development . |
| 20 | As a church architect , I have visited , I believe , all the cathedrals in Europe — Chartres , Burgos , Canterbury , Cologne , Saragossa , Milano , Ely , Zagreb , Gozo , Rheims — ’ I continued to name them for some while as we tramped down the nave . |
| 21 | I make this point after returning from a day 's walking near Ullswater when I was approached by a party of walkers who had followed me for some distance thinking that I was headed for the same destination . |
| 22 | GULF War hero Paul Butler , who saw two pals killed in the American ‘ friendly fire ’ attack , went berserk when he heard his wife had left him for another man . |
| 23 | He had taken me for some kind of refugee from the Napoleonic Wars ! |
| 24 | His mother had nagged him for some time about entering his lodger 's room . |
| 25 | Roirbak had mistaken her for another boy : a skinny , awkward creature , but pretty in her own way , he conceded . |
| 26 | She also warned Quinn of the abrasive Kevin Brown , who had chosen her for this mission and had established himself in London with a team of eight to ‘ keep an eye on things ’ . |
| 27 | I felt sure Miss Havisham had chosen us for each other . |
| 28 | Nick , I wanted to thank you for last night . |
| 29 | And eventually they said well the stereotype is basically sort of like the equivalent in litho plate making really said that this was , no of course it is metal , sorry it 's not metal , it is letterpress The Guardian and it is , they make these Nyclopone plates or something and they really wanted to keep it for that reason . |