Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] for [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He lived down Gypsy Lane with his two sisters , he was a single man you see and my father and mother lived here and my , they not only mended shoes but they made them and er course naturally , you know , well of course Needham was n't as big as it is now but they made them for the best people , if that , if that 's the right , not the right expression say , but er but you know what I mean er and er and he , you know , all his life you see he did that and then one day he had a shock because his er , what would you call him colleague , he , he died suddenly in the night . |
| 2 | he asked me for a few slices of bread which he broke into pieces and scattered over the roof . |
| 3 | And she asked me for the fifty P . |
| 4 | And the , I went to the my little now in Italy , making this conditional he says it 's no bloody good on me , poor old curly what , I think he 's about ninety , he looked it , he said what they keep making you conditional for he said you 've got no ruddy condition it 's gone and the , the recommended me for a complete discharge and , and eh , I started off with fifty per cent pension . |
| 5 | It was still unthinkable to see him without his sketchbook and pencil , but of the hundreds and hundreds of drawings he made , he gave away many or sold them for a few francs . |
| 6 | I earned quite a lot of money by showing my Lilliputian animals to people , and in the end I sold them for a high price . |
| 7 | I sold them for the same price that I had paid myself . |
| 8 | She lashed the class with scorn and ridicule and punished them for the nasty thoughts in her own mind . |
| 9 | His eyes were ice-bright , and pierced her like twin blades as he regarded her for a long moment . |
| 10 | Britain 's golden boy who lost his shine when newcomer David Grindley beat him for the final place in today 's 400 metres final is ready to take a year off from the track if it means he can beat the trouble . |
| 11 | Prison officials , concerned about his poor health , referred him for a medical examination which confirmed widespread injuries , including marks around the wrist , apparently caused by the hanging , and burns ‘ possibly caused by electrical current . ’ |
| 12 | This back parlour , Hope thought , as he entered it for the third time that day , is like a little theatre : Act I , Colonel Moore ; Act II , Amaryllis ; Act III |
| 13 | The Chinese , who used ivory for elaborately carved handles and vessels as early as the Shang dynasty and in later times used it for a wide variety of personal items such as brush pots , wrist-rests , boxes , seals , snuff boxes and fans , had increasingly to import the material as the elephant herds in the southern provinces diminished . |
| 14 | But there were plenty of beautiful and recognisable faces to be seen amongst the anonymous , but none-the-less powerful , fashion editors , still enough buying power in this room alone to rock empires , even if no house made a profit from the couture but rather used it for a loss-leading advertisement and a mark of prestige . |
| 15 | He had one made up , used it for the first time in the 1989 Jersey Open and finished joint fifth , 5-under par and only two behind play-off victor Christy O'Connor Jnr . |
| 16 | We tried it for a whole year . |
| 17 | Just then he noticed me for the first time . |
| 18 | Unfortunately , for example , he believed certain things which were wrong ( such as the tenets of Unitarianism ) , and he believed them for the wrong reasons ( such as the theistic proofs ) . |
| 19 | I had each Wednesday afternoon off from Russell 's and he enroled me , secretly , into his school for lessons with his normal classes , He and his wife held a weekly open house and these cramming sessions prepared me for the coming Halton entrance examination . |
| 20 | He buggered me for the first time that night , reaching round and putting his hand over my mouth , tearing me in two . |
| 21 | Then Folly reached the top of the steps , and the woman noticed her for the first time . |
| 22 | To cover the fact that she had far too many feelings altogether , she ignored him for the first part of the morning . |
| 23 | Fraulein Winkelmann told him for the Good God 's sake to get the papers fast , and Bruno went away and came back and pointed the Luger yet again . |
| 24 | ‘ We do n't want you to be neglected , ’ I told him for the umptieth time . |
| 25 | ‘ Not today , thank you , ’ I told him for the umptieth time . |
| 26 | He studied her for a long time , then reached out and touched a wet strand of her hair . |
| 27 | … nothing prepared her for the angry letter she received from the Duke of Edinburgh soon afterwards . |
| 28 | ‘ You dropped him for the Prime Minister . ’ |
| 29 | Someone interviewed her for an Italian magazine — they 're doing a piece about her family , or so she says . |
| 30 | Jean Cocteau , Peggy Guggenheim tells us in her autobiography Confessions of an Art Addict , received her for the first time comfortably horizontal between the sheets , smoking opium . |