Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] a [noun sg] for the " in BNC.

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1	There was the lure of the big stores , though clothing coupons and shortage of money made them a feast for the eye only .
2	He rang up the hospital and got me a bed for the next week .
3	It said Mrs Falati ‘ seems to feel that Mrs Mandela owed her a living for the rest of her life ’ .
4	But going back to the 1944 triptych , you called it a base for the Crucifixion .
5	Here Revelstoke was in his element ; acute intelligence and charm , capacity for meticulous work , presence and eloquence , fluency in French and Spanish , and , above all , financial acumen made him a match for the wiliest of South American presidents , North American railway barons , European finance ministers , and the members of the British cabinet with all of whom he had to deal at one time or another .
6	He accepted that his return made him a target for the IRA .
7	Canny Scot that he is , he guessed what was happening , followed them out of the shop and offered them a tenner for the amp .
8	The processor sent me a cheque for the value of the two missing films .
9	He thought it a mistake for the Prince to make his first visit in the shadow of such a legendary figure .
10	He thought it a punishment for the note the young cleric had tried to smuggle out via De Gaulle .
11	Scheckter and Depailler made it a double for the Tyrrell six-wheeler ( which was later to be banned , like many another intelligent innovation ) , Niki came third and Hunt limped in fifth , nearly a minute off the pace .
12	( He should have won a Nobel Prize for general relativity , but the idea that space and time were curved was still regarded as too speculative and controversial , so they gave him a prize for the photoelectric effect instead — ; not that it was not worth the prize on its own account . )
13	Certainly she never considered herself a match for the actress Susan George , who was his escort that evening .

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