Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv prt] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maginnis , and by implication the Official Unionists , were weak and failed to stand up for the common man . |
| 2 | In a moment , the monster rose , lurching slightly , and started to head back for the dark tower . |
| 3 | I mean it 's basically in , if it 's , if in , the main reason that people brought Share in for the large media restriction of pre |
| 4 | The opposition to Raybestos then appeared to die down for the following year , only to return with a vengeance in 1980 . |
| 5 | The Acting Reporter from Strathclyde , Gordon Sloan , who had filled in for the past year , would continue to look after the cases with which he had been involved . |
| 6 | We had booked up for the ordinary ship and , and rail you know , to go over by ship and rail but er during the months awaiting the , I think we were going in July and er we had booked up maybe about April , but they had put these planes on and Polytechnic wrote to us and said , if we paid two pounds ten extra , we could go by air and we did it and the full tour for a week in Paris , going by air , was twelve pounds ten . |
| 7 | We can presume that the novelty of the Society had worn off for the capricious upper classes . |
| 8 | But the journey took longer than they planned , because they had to watch out for the evil troll who lurked under the bridge . |
| 9 | I kept just killing time until it had gone eleven o'clock and all the cinema-goers had gone in for the late shows , at which point I decided to call it a day . |
| 10 | ‘ However I wanted to race in Ireland and I was frustrated when the Lisburn club came back to me a few days after I had signed up for the French meeting and gave me the full details . |
| 11 | He was recently fined £500 by the European Tour when , after a first round of 74 in his defence of the Mediterranean Open , he refused to come in for the requested press interview . |