Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [adv] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | We played with Gary player for the first two rounds and he was as miserable as sin about our luck with the weather because we caught it again for the second round . |
2 | Impulses of attraction towards beautiful forms or faces troubled him frequently for the next two years at Oxford . |
3 | They said their father contacted them suddenly for the first time two months ago after walking out on them 18 years ago . |
4 | Our fleet now consisted of three " V " vessels , Venturous , Vigilant and Valiant , all well equipped , modern , purpose-built patrol boats which were worked hard and served us well for the next ten years . |
5 | He addressed us now for the first time , in far more lucid Indonesian than we had ever heard from his elders . |
6 | One of Alejandro 's sons playing back rode him off for the backhand and hit it up the field to his brother who dribbled it a few yards , then sliced it to Perdita . |
7 | The figure stopped dead and saw them obviously for the first time . |
8 | Jinny remembered Bella 's words and understood them properly for the first time . |
9 | she obviously took them both for the same thing did n't she ? |
10 | His sports and hobbies frequently took him away for the best part of the weekend ; work also ate into parts of Saturday and Sunday . |
11 | It was true that the chains ' capacity for negotiating good deals made it hard for the family-run business to keep going , and they had many letters offering businesses for sale , and the price of shops was coming down all the time . |
12 | The two head office teams battled it out for the top spot , but it was no surprise to see , a Bolton Sailing Club member along with his father , steer his craft over the line first . |
13 | She wrote , The Love and Lives of the She Devil , and she 's written it , she wrote it especially for The Orange Tree Theatre about ten years ago , and now she 's re-doing it , |
14 | You held her down for the other one . |