Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [pers pn] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Juliet wondered if he 'd re-stocked it for the occasion . |
| 2 | Perhaps if I 'd entered him for the Champion Hurdle , he might have sold . |
| 3 | He filled the kettle and set it on the hob , then went through to the front room , closed the shutters , and tried radioing on the frequency Caspar had given him for the US Embassy in Belpan City . |
| 4 | It was also believed that Menelik visited his father Solomon , and on his departure contrived to substitute a copy of the Ark of the Covenant that his father had given him for the original , which he then carried off to Aksum . |
| 5 | At the slow , jerking speed of city traffic at night , he drove toward the address that Ashdown had given him for the rendezvous . |
| 6 | At the end of the formal presentation not all had joined us for the stomach churners , preferring to get to the office and start selling those new protection contracts . |
| 7 | On the grounds that James IV 's will had nominated her for the regency only if she remained a widow , the Scottish Estates sent for the Duke of Albany , descendant of that Stewart who had plagued James III . |
| 8 | Previously he had blamed her for the lack of sexual satisfaction she gave him , experiencing her as semi-frigid and totally unexciting . |
| 9 | Her duties as parents had been completed , she had prepared them for the future , they could now stand on their own feet , so she let them go . |
| 10 | Nothing in my upbringing had prepared me for the weather , much less the absurd notion of hitchhiking . |
| 11 | Nothing in her 11 years as a member of the world 's most famous family had prepared her for the contents of the letter inside . |
| 12 | Nothing Isa Blagden had said had prepared her for the fright . |
| 13 | However , nothing had prepared us for the abundance and variety of scallops , mussels , every species in the shrimp to lobster continuum as well as some very funny-looking goose-neck barnacles . |
| 14 | Palottino had no answer to that , any more than Zen himself , though the question had tormented him for the whole drive back to Perugia . |
| 15 | But it was as if he had done it for the thrill of it . ’ |
| 16 | But it was as if he had done it for the thrill of it . ’ |
| 17 | The other girls , knowing quite well that she had done it for the benefit of one Geoffrey A. Machin , were shocked and admiring , but the convention restrained them from expressing either shock or admiration . |
| 18 | They had done it for the joy of creating , without having to look over their shoulder at the censor . |
| 19 | A member of the Club Animacion Team had volunteered me for the lilo race across the pool — the first prize a free drink — who could resist ! |
| 20 | Producer-director Arne Glimcher had tapped him for the role after catching his performance in Pedro Almodóvar 's Matador , in which he plays a melancholic bullfighter wannabe who faints at the sight of blood and gets dizzy watching clouds . |
| 21 | They were the same officers that had arrested me for the charge I was on . |
| 22 | He had been found asleep on the floor of a taxi outside a night club and claimed he had hired it for the evening as his bedroom . |
| 23 | One thing she had to say about Dad , at least he had prepped her for the world she was going to have to live in . |
| 24 | Valeria had asked us for the afternoon and suggested that we should stay on for the evening , as her mother had gone to spend the night with a friend . |
| 25 | In fact , Dustin was not unknown to Nichols , who had seen him in Journey of the Fifth Horse and had auditioned him for the Broadway musical The Apple Tree . |
| 26 | Now as I looked at the tree I saw that the great things had been there all the time but I had mistaken them for the background . |
| 27 | In the previous May Prince Rupert had captured the town for the Royalists from Colonel Dukinfield , who had held it for the Parliamentarians . |
| 28 | She had the money Mrs Dallam had paid her for the petticoats and chemises . |
| 29 | He had been paid for by his country of origin — reared and raised as capitalist underdevelopment had willed it for the labour markets of Europe . ’ |