Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [vb pp] [adv] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Strange as it seems , I believe that she had not done so for many years . |
| 2 | ( Hence , notably in ‘ Gerontion ’ , Eliot 's ability to approximate and even conform to Jacobean blank verse , yet to depart from it smoothly when he pleased. ) Pound 's verse on the contrary was , at least after Homage to Sextus Propertius , free , not ‘ freed ’ : the rhythms that he sought and attained either had never appeared before in the language , or else had not appeared there for many centuries . |
| 3 | She had not come here for that ; it was another problem that she must take on , but not now , not here . |
| 4 | Thus in a case in 1969 , where the 10-year-old child born in England of Spanish parents had been very unhappy during the seventeen months he had spent with them in Spain , and had then lived happily for several years with foster parents and their six children in England , the court refused to make an order that care and control should be granted to the parents , one of whom was in poor health . |
| 5 | I felt a little ashamed that I had never cared enough for any of my father 's relatives to give even a thought to their reactions to the prospect of an irregular addition to the family . |