Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [pers pn] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd suspected it for some time , but last week had seen it for herself . |
| 2 | I 'd done it for four years on the trot . |
| 3 | She 'd had it for seven years , and it had been a few years old when she and Tony had bought it . |
| 4 | I think it was a car that she 'd had for was well looked after her dad used to see to it for her but it was she 'd had it for some years and she was always poodling about in you see . |
| 5 | Hagans said he 'd known her for two years and they 'd met by appointment . |
| 6 | Lucy knew she had to tell him something , so she said , ‘ She got mad with me when I admitted you 'd taken me for two bush walks . |
| 7 | The race was the brainchild of Chay Blythe , he 'd planned it for 4 years and raised the money for 10 million pound yachts . |
| 8 | She 'd chosen it for that reason — and because it was the colour of wine . |
| 9 | He had treated her for several months using her husband as an interpreter — as though her husband were an objective witness to her depression . |
| 10 | Anyway , I 'd been very busy the day before and Doreen had irritated me for other reasons . |
| 11 | The argument is familiar — Lord Gordon-Walker said he had heard it for forty years — but , even more , it is a political argument . |
| 12 | He fixed his mind on a rule his father had given him for public speaking : Get a vague plan and then say anything that comes into your head . |
| 13 | Mohawk Grand Chief Joe Norton warned that there would be further violence unless the Quebec authorities agreed to return policing of the reservation to the control of the Indians , who had policed it for 11 years prior to the outbreak of the 1990 trouble . |
| 14 | What could be anticipated with confidence was the beneficial results of redistribution , for Unionists had expected them for some time . |
| 15 | In addition to securing Commonwealth support for their position , the British sought to consolidate their own aviation policy into some definable form , something which had eluded them for several years . |
| 16 | They had known all along they had a good , competitive car ; a single mistake had mired them for three races ; it was now solved and they could build for the future . |
| 17 | For Small , getting out the magazine that had absorbed her for two years was the commitment , not this eccentric lurch into the unknown . |
| 18 | Nothing in his many years ' service had prepared him for this sort of situation . |
| 19 | Shocking as the assault had been , it had prepared her for another encounter — an encounter with a youth of her own age , bewildered and uneasy , one called to high estate who found himself of a sudden alone on the edge of an abyss … |
| 20 | In June 1548 , when the Scots had suffered it for four years , lord Methven reported to Mary of Guise the results of his inquiries as to why the Englishmen were favoured . |
| 21 | Delaunay felt that the basis of his art was ‘ simultaneous ’ contrasts of colour , a concept which he adopted from Chevreul , whose colour theory had interested him for some time . |
| 22 | When he handled her breasts they were tender ; she had noticed it for some time . |
| 23 | It was one of the joys of life , and particularly she loved dancing tonight with Tony Radcliffe , because he was her oldest friend in the world and this was the first time she had seen him for eighteen months . |
| 24 | Of course it was not certain either that Zoser had done it or that , if he had done it , he had done it for sectarian reasons . |
| 25 | Tony 's mother had made them for this occasion , and though recipes vary slightly the end result is a large currant biscuit . |
| 26 | He had bought it for thirty pounds , enclosed it with a honey-coloured Cotswold stone wall , and planted a small but fine orchard , now at the height of its production . |
| 27 | The paper owner , the local council , had bought it for eventual use as a road , but had no immediate use for it . |
| 28 | Before he had become involved with Sien he had used her for some time as a model . |
| 29 | Just over half of the teachers claiming to have seen the booklet said they had used it for in-service training in their school . |
| 30 | At dawn on Friday , John Major came of age , shaking off the shadow of Mrs Thatcher that had dogged him for 16 months . |