Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [noun pl] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have a couple of mates who are Forest fans , and I got them tickets for the first game of the season . |
| 2 | It 'd be easier if we met my troops for the first time at the concert , ’ he said . |
| 3 | He described his proposals for the coming year as neutral because he did not want to hamper recovery . |
| 4 | During November the three largest parties announced their candidates for the presidential elections scheduled for April 26 , 1992 , to elect a successor to Kurt Waldheim , who had in June 1991 declined to stand for a second term [ see p. 38298 ] . |
| 5 | On April 27th Euro Disney , which runs a big amusement park outside Paris modeled on American ones owned by its parent firm , Walt Disney , announced its results for the six months to the end of March 1993 . |
| 6 | They shared their responsibilities for the smooth running of Zone I with the enthusiasm of those bound by a loveless marriage . |
| 7 | He asked their Lordships for the forthcoming Proof before the Sheriff to be heard away from Orkney in mainland Scotland . |
| 8 | Christies International , one of the world 's leading art auctioneers , yesterday revealed their profits for the last six months had been hammered by £1 million down to £2,112,000 . |
| 9 | This year , as the locos dropped their fires for the last time , the cash bag totalled more than £1243.72 . |
| 10 | Other unions were equally alarmed by the potential scale of the problem , which was just emerging as schools received their budgets for the new financial year . |
| 11 | Mayor dropped his plans for the new committee and agreed to keep the Executive Board more fully informed of his actions in future . |
| 12 | She noticed his teeth for the first time : small and irregular , like pieces of gravel on a driveway , but sparkling white . |
| 13 | Even with such a drastic cut , we estimated our losses for the first year as being in the region of £148,000 . |
| 14 | During our last seven months , as we prepared our recommendations for the secondary stages , the officials of the National Curriculum Council under their Chairman , Duncan Graham , were rewriting the attainment targets for the primary stages , supposedly in accord with the consultation exercise and Mr Baker 's own proposals about grammar . |
| 15 | I never paid my bills for the last month |
| 16 | Yesterday , Darlington and South West Durham health authorities unveiled their plans for the new Patient 's Charter at a press conference in Darlington . |
| 17 | When the Reading Room opened its doors for the first time in the city of St Louis , Missouri , it became the world 's first literary brothel . |
| 18 | Havelock Wilson who had , of course , been among those leaders to whom Larkin 's vituperation had been particularly directed , reserved his regrets for the oppressed people of Ireland whose cause had been so ill served by the " blunders and follies " of Larkin who " had such a splendid case , but made such a sorry mess of it , doing everything he ought not to have done and nothing that he ought to " and bringing , by his defeat , comfort to the Irish employers who had nothing good to be said for them at all . |
| 19 | And a couple of young clerks , that 's where they bred their clerks for the future use sort of thing you know . |
| 20 | He was short and deeply unpopular with everyone because he had cheated them out of their money when he collected their taxes for the Roman army . |
| 21 | Most Bangladeshi mothers breastfed their babies for the first few weeks , switching to either combination or bottle feeding after this period . |
| 22 | On 25th May , while the German army raced ruthlessly across Belgium and the inhabitants of England watched their skies for the first signs of airborne invasion , the scientists in the Oxford Pathology Department performed a crucial experiment . |
| 23 | At the last , Marion and Elizabeth brought their babies for the old man to bless . |
| 24 | Meanwhile I saw her breasts for the first time . |
| 25 | Even though she was making light of it , Charlie could n't mistake the fire that animated her when she reached his entries for the final night of Christine Ashdown 's brief career . |
| 26 | Ye Olde Reine Deer Inn is where Cromwell allegedly made his plans for the Civil War . |
| 27 | She gave her orders for the next week 's farm work and then turned to one of the men . |
| 28 | Karl-Heinz Kretschmer resigned as the ( CDU ) deputy Minister President of Brandenburg following accusations that he too had been involved with the Stasi , and two PDS deputies in the Saxony-Anhalt parliament , Gunter Scholz and Rolf Funda , resigned their seats for the same reason on the recommendation of the party . |
| 29 | ENGLAND 'S Colts emulated their seniors for the first time in three seasons at the Parc de Pugh in Brecon by toppling the Welsh Youth in no uncertain fashion . |
| 30 | We discussed our plans for the living museum and theme park and told her about the oak tree . |