Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [pers pn] for [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first time I wore this , I 'd had it for about two months and I was talking to Princess Margaret , but as we spoke , I could see she was following my hand with her eyes . |
| 2 | These are moderate to severe pain relievers , but numerous instances were cited in the interviews where GPs had prescribed them for relatively minor ailments , some of which were fictitious , such as headaches , backache and arthritis . |
| 3 | Quite plainly , having so recently finished the work that had absorbed him for almost two years , he was not yet back in the habit of eating lunch at a regular hour . |
| 4 | I had bought them for very little money from a woman who looked needy . |
| 5 | But you had known her for so long that she must have seemed immortal . ’ |
| 6 | It was just as I had remembered it for over thirty years , it was just as it used to appear at least once a week at lunch in the Paris household where I spent two years of my youth with a greedy Norman family : two years of study interspersed with the most trying of family meals , endless and infinitely to be dreaded but for the blessed beauty of the food . |
| 7 | And because he thought she had followed him for just that purpose ? |
| 8 | The white elephant had finally emerged from the confusion behind which its promoters had concealed it for so many years . |
| 9 | He was condemned by an image which had haunted him for over thirty years : a poor defenceless body Iying curled up in a vast flat dismal landscape , a father abandoned to his lonely fate . |
| 10 | She picked up the stock records , she had studied them for so long that her head ached . |
| 11 | Dr Jaffery knew the building as well as anyone and I much looked forward to going around it with someone who had studied it for so many years . |