Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pers pn] [adj] for [art] " in BNC.

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1 In a small club in Hamilton , Ontario , he jammed with them onstage for a few nights .
2 Miss Harker stared at them uncomprehending for a second .
3 She looked at him wide-eyed for a second , then ran off in the same direction as Isay .
4 He was like just being an adviser , he was n't like trying to design it , and I looked at it all for a long time and I said Bembo , which I had never heard of .
5 When crossing by boat from West Loch Tarbert to Port Ellen on one of my early Journeys to Islay I was talking with an elderly minister who was coming to visit a crofter brother who was ill , and during our conversation said that it appeared to me that for a small island with a population of about four thousand it had produced an unusually large proportion of ministers , ship captains , marine engineers and doctors and asked him why he thought that was so .
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