Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [verb] [pron] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dougal had arranged to hire it for the Sunday and the Monday , just to be on the safe side . |
| 2 | He had resolved to keep it for the whole year , egged on by his father , who had promised him a new bicycle if he succeeded . |
| 3 | I did n't know it at the time , but he had come to prepare us for the move to England . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , the BBC photographer had arrived to photograph me for the Radio Times . |
| 5 | Even though she had tried to prepare herself for the possibility , the sense of shock hit her like a physical pain . |