Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] for [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He remembered how she 'd sung for the passengers on the ship and how they 'd all liked her . |
| 2 | Patterson had arranged for the solicitors in Bloomsbury to ring him immediately the jiffy bag arrived , so that end was covered and I was pretty sure that 's where the Airborne messenger was heading without further interruptions . |
| 3 | The speech Rain had prepared for the police about the keys dried . |
| 4 | ‘ You ca n't go out like that , ’ said Wendy to Apricot when she was four , ‘ it 's freezing , ’ and little Apricot , in nothing but vest and pants , ran straight out into the street and down the long suburban road to the small playground which a benign council had made for the children in the sharp triangle of land where the railway line intersected the water-purifying plant . |
| 5 | The saga , which was illustrated with his own naïve pen-and-ink drawings , had its origins in the compassion he had felt for the sufferings of the animals in the past war ( ‘ If we made [ them ] take the same chances as we did ourselves , why did we not give them similar attention when wounded ? ’ ) and in the letters about an imaginary horse surgery that he had written home from the front to his two children , Elizabeth and Colin ( the latter of whom habitually called himself Dr Dolittle ) . |
| 6 | Giry 's models were the volumes of Jahrbucher ( year-books ) which German scholars had produced for the reigns of other Carolingians : strictly chronological accounts conceived quite literally as annals . |
| 7 | The Catholic and Anglican archbishops of Georgetown had stated that the existing lists did not form a " credible basis for free and fair elections " , and both the Carter Centre and the opposition Patriotic Coalition for Democracy ( PCD ) had called for the elections to be delayed until 1992 . |
| 8 | Harrison had arrived for the Sports on the previous evening , taken a couple of glasses of beer in the Fish — complimented the landlord on his brew — and then gone to sleep out the night in a barn . |
| 9 | Come and tell me about this morning , ’ He looked round for Catherine to discover that with admirable good sense she had asked for the facilities of the house , and was being issued with soap and hand-towels by Miss Williams . |
| 10 | A big blond sergeant , minus helmet , had gone for the ringleaders in the anoraks and had two of them in headlocks , one under each arm . |
| 11 | They had run for the woods in what they stood up in . |
| 12 | He was in fact an employee rather than an independent agent and had worked for the defendants for 17 years . |
| 13 | Jordanian and Iraqi embassy officials told Customs investigators that Iraq had paid for the guns as a ‘ gift for Jordan ’ . |