Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pron] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They argued about it for the rest of the afternoon , he becoming sullen and sorry , she remaining dispassionate , untouched-She was impressed by his sudden remorse . |
| 2 | When Christian left for London to begin his new life in the Methodist ministry , Seb took him to the railway station at Shipton-under-Wychwood in the farm 's gig and Carrie came with him for the ride . |
| 3 | Eliot borrowed from it for The Waste Land , thus making it permanently famous ; Pound could not have known of it in 1911 , but if he had then visited the Templars ' cavern-church in Aubeterre he could hardly have failed to remember it in the light of jessie Weston 's argument . |
| 4 | This was the start of the parrot legend which stuck to me for the rest of my career . |
| 5 | Coming to the end of his account , he remembered the fate of the mason-overseer , Khaemhet , held responsible for the security of the prisoners deputed to him for the journey from the granite quarries to the Southern Capital . |
| 6 | I fell through everybody for the report . |
| 7 | Three who suffered particularly at the time were Richard and Phoebe Winch who lived just below the Centre and in whose house I often took my evening glass of ‘ allowed ’ claret , and Ann Willson who looked after me for the Saturday and Sunday . |
| 8 | When she reached it , she felt behind her for the handle . |
| 9 | It was the Colonel himself who taught me how to shoot , and I always went with him for the fishing . |
| 10 | Nodding gently to himself , he reached beside him for the blanket . |
| 11 | All that mattered to him for the moment was the feel of the bedsheets angling Golden Girl northward . |
| 12 | We kept to ourselves for the rest of the day , taking food from the buttery and retiring early for we were both still exhausted after our journey from England . |
| 13 | Two you had off me for the fete . |
| 14 | We kissed goodnight , and I again apologised to her for the fright she had . |
| 15 | Fine weather stayed with us for the remainder of our passage down the East coast . |