Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pron] [noun pl] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They joined in our events for young women , and devoured our publications , because it gave them the springboard for taking action themselves . |
| 2 | Subsequent financial woes — he had quit his job as a broker to work on a show for the Boone gallery — sent Koons back to Pennsylvania , where he lived with his parents for several months before heading to Florida for a political campaign job that brought him enough money to return to New York . |
| 3 | I have always been fascinated by Magritte 's work ; I have met all his friends , and I worked on his archives for six years . |
| 4 | The French master chef , dressed in his long bespattered apron , stood by his post chopping , slicing , stirring and mixing with a vigour which drenched him in sweat whilst he swore at his apprentices for this or that . |
| 5 | He went rigid , his head lifting as he stared into her eyes for one brief moment that held all eternity within it . |
| 6 | I am not able to eat and talk at the same time , so I apologized to my neighbours for this . |
| 7 | He tapped at his keys for several seconds . |
| 8 | Wordsworth lived by his beliefs for eight years , but in 1805 he was so shaken by the death of his brother John that his self-sufficiency collapsed . |
| 9 | Government would benefit if , barring accidents , Secretaries of State remained with their departments for longer . |
| 10 | As BR and union leaders tried to resolve the problem of finding new jobs for the teams , the men turned up for work each day at Liverpool 's Central Station and simply sat in their vans for eight hours a day . |
| 11 | They stood by their demands for back-dated bonus payments . |