Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] for [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I sold them for the same price that I had paid myself . |
| 4 | His eyes were ice-bright , and pierced her like twin blades as he regarded her for a long moment . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | We tried it for a whole year . |
| 12 | Just then he noticed me for the first time . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He buggered me for the first time that night , reaching round and putting his hand over my mouth , tearing me in two . |
| 15 | Then Folly reached the top of the steps , and the woman noticed her for the first time . |
| 16 | To cover the fact that she had far too many feelings altogether , she ignored him for the first part of the morning . |
| 17 | ‘ We do n't want you to be neglected , ’ I told him for the umptieth time . |
| 18 | ‘ Not today , thank you , ’ I told him for the umptieth time . |
| 19 | He studied her for a long time , then reached out and touched a wet strand of her hair . |
| 20 | … nothing prepared her for the angry letter she received from the Duke of Edinburgh soon afterwards . |
| 21 | ‘ You dropped him for the Prime Minister . ’ |
| 22 | Someone interviewed her for an Italian magazine — they 're doing a piece about her family , or so she says . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It was an experience which steeled him for the future task of having as many as a dozen major country houses under construction in any one year . |
| 25 | fourteen or I had a sixteen overhead cam Cortina engine sitting up the blokes just swapped it for a two litre cos he wanted some more go . |
| 26 | The two owners were aged 84 and 71 and , after the chewing incident , the RSPCA swapped it for a smaller dog . |
| 27 | Designed to counteract poor visibility on murky winter afternoons , it had been used in Scotland and by the visiting South Africans in 1924 before Arsenal adopted it for a public trial match three years later . |
| 28 | Putting their dinner on the table , Trent reached for the photograph and studied it for the umpteenth time since finding it on Don Roberto 's piano — his mother , and the Colonel as a young man . |
| 29 | Gordon Macpherson 's Prosen , a long arch of sound , eerie music from distant mountains with the instruments imitating and overlapping in echo effect , taught the ear to listen and prepared us for a fresh hearing of Tchaikovsky 's Souvenir de Florence , ravishing but not cloying , spinning to a close in the exacting fugue which made the composer laugh when he first played it . |
| 30 | That was when I met you for the first time , last week , at the consciousness-raising group that we started at the women 's centre a few weeks ago . |