Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] for the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He lived down Gypsy Lane with his two sisters , he was a single man you see and my father and mother lived here and my , they not only mended shoes but they made them and er course naturally , you know , well of course Needham was n't as big as it is now but they made them for the best people , if that , if that 's the right , not the right expression say , but er but you know what I mean er and er and he , you know , all his life you see he did that and then one day he had a shock because his er , what would you call him colleague , he , he died suddenly in the night . |
| 2 | And she asked me for the fifty P . |
| 3 | I sold them for the same price that I had paid myself . |
| 4 | She lashed the class with scorn and ridicule and punished them for the nasty thoughts in her own mind . |
| 5 | Britain 's golden boy who lost his shine when newcomer David Grindley beat him for the final place in today 's 400 metres final is ready to take a year off from the track if it means he can beat the trouble . |
| 6 | This back parlour , Hope thought , as he entered it for the third time that day , is like a little theatre : Act I , Colonel Moore ; Act II , Amaryllis ; Act III |
| 7 | He had one made up , used it for the first time in the 1989 Jersey Open and finished joint fifth , 5-under par and only two behind play-off victor Christy O'Connor Jnr . |
| 8 | Just then he noticed me for the first time . |
| 9 | Unfortunately , for example , he believed certain things which were wrong ( such as the tenets of Unitarianism ) , and he believed them for the wrong reasons ( such as the theistic proofs ) . |
| 10 | I had each Wednesday afternoon off from Russell 's and he enroled me , secretly , into his school for lessons with his normal classes , He and his wife held a weekly open house and these cramming sessions prepared me for the coming Halton entrance examination . |
| 11 | He buggered me for the first time that night , reaching round and putting his hand over my mouth , tearing me in two . |
| 12 | They just were n't compatible , she told herself for the umpteenth time . |
| 13 | This is crazy , she told herself for the umpteenth time . |
| 14 | Tippy lay back and prepared herself for the worst afternoon of her life . |
| 15 | She mentally steeled herself for the long evening ahead , but , as it turned out , it was n't nearly as long as she had anticipated because towards the end of the evening she heard a sharp knocking on the door , and opened it to find André standing outside , a huge bunch of flowers in his arms . |
| 16 | Then Folly reached the top of the steps , and the woman noticed her for the first time . |
| 17 | To cover the fact that she had far too many feelings altogether , she ignored him for the first part of the morning . |
| 18 | Fraulein Winkelmann told him for the Good God 's sake to get the papers fast , and Bruno went away and came back and pointed the Luger yet again . |
| 19 | ‘ We do n't want you to be neglected , ’ I told him for the umptieth time . |
| 20 | ‘ Not today , thank you , ’ I told him for the umptieth time . |
| 21 | … nothing prepared her for the angry letter she received from the Duke of Edinburgh soon afterwards . |
| 22 | ‘ You dropped him for the Prime Minister . ’ |
| 23 | Jean Cocteau , Peggy Guggenheim tells us in her autobiography Confessions of an Art Addict , received her for the first time comfortably horizontal between the sheets , smoking opium . |
| 24 | It was an experience which steeled him for the future task of having as many as a dozen major country houses under construction in any one year . |
| 25 | Putting their dinner on the table , Trent reached for the photograph and studied it for the umpteenth time since finding it on Don Roberto 's piano — his mother , and the Colonel as a young man . |
| 26 | As the Dwarfs steeled themselves for the inevitable assault , there was a loud explosion and the gateway burst apart in a cloud of dust . |
| 27 | That was when I met you for the first time , last week , at the consciousness-raising group that we started at the women 's centre a few weeks ago . |
| 28 | Delaney readied himself for the final assault . |
| 29 | I defended myself for the first time : I pushed him away . |
| 30 | Thomasino Boyd , who joined us for the last couple of years , and before that ( in Scots accent ) Doogie Rae . |