Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] for a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The task of implementing this change of policy fell on Roger Brown , then editor in succession to Ralph Gee , who had been responsible for the printing of the paper for many years and edited it for a short period . |
| 32 | We could hear the V2s thudding down onto London in the far distance , but the sound came over as a far-off double bang , which puzzled us for a long time until someone told us what it was . |
| 33 | Ritschl , by now increasingly confident of his protege 's abilities , recommended him for a vacant chair of classics at the University of Basle in Switzerland . |
| 34 | A 16-YEAR-OLD boy who fired a catapult at a low-flying Sri Lankan air force helicopter yesterday was wounded when the copter 's gunner mistook him for a Tamil terrorist and shot back at him . |
| 35 | This was not an opinion , simply the Catholic moral teaching , he said at the funeral of Henry Babbington , shot dead on Wednesday by IRA men who mistook him for a loyalist terrorist . |
| 36 | At this point I thought she might be distracted by the kid whose chair was sticking out , so I asked him for a second time to move back even further . |
| 37 | Although these children were potentially a lot more intelligent than the rest of society , they still feared something and this is what suppressed them for a longer period of time . |
| 38 | That stumped her for a few seconds , then she opened the door to the hallway for me . |
| 39 | Soon after I got him I noticed a lump under his tummy , so I took him for a thorough check-up . |
| 40 | Yeah , I said yeah I am , I said I 'm gon na drive up and see , so we got in , went up to Wendy 's , you could n't see through the door Pen , Penny and Kev said well we 'll drive round as well , I said well she 's had us up and down , cos one minute she was quite strong then the next she could n't cope , I said Wendy all I want you to ever know is that I 'm there , if ever you want me phone me , I do n't care whether it 's middle of the night , middle of the morning or whatever , so she says alright , anyway Penny went up , she said she could n't see anything she thinks she 's gone a bed and then me and Rudy went up , it must have been quarter to one cos I took him for a little walk and I got out the car and walked round the back and then , I could see her curtains were open and I could see a light on , so I went round the front and I shouted through the letter box , Wen it 's only me I 've come to wish you a happy new year , let's hope next year will be better than this one and she come to the door and she was broken hearted |
| 41 | I lived with my husband for er , three and a half years , and I knew him for a good number of years before then , so we made a joint decision after that period of time that we were , wanted to commit ourselves |
| 42 | No , no , I said to Richard is , is , Debbie not feeling well enough to come here , no I took her for a little ride round the . |
| 43 | Jobless Shepherd told a court his labrador Flash was savaged by a pit bull terrier as he took her for a late-night walk after drinking at a local club . |
| 44 | The Bill was then printed with the Committee 's revisions , and considered by a Committee of the whole House on 13th July , who sent it for a Third Reading . |
| 45 | She held my hand steady to bring the cigarette to the flame and kept it for a few seconds longer than she had to . |
| 46 | His absorption with Mao and Castro was so open that the neighbors took it for a double bluff , and each new discovery of an agent transmitting messages from some ordinary-looking English suburb increased the tension of their interest in the land mine who was surely bound one day to go off in their own street . |
| 47 | I sold it for a reasonable price . |
| 48 | Short of battering him on the head with a blunt instrument — the thought held immense appeal , and she savoured it for a long moment , before reluctantly putting it on hold — she could n't come up with any way out of the present situation . |
| 49 | And I fought it for a long time and I wanted to get kick-started back to where I was before , because I felt under a cloud . |
| 50 | ‘ I did n't know at the time it had been in the Quakers boardroom but it was a good , handmade , solid oak table and I got it for a reasonable price , ’ he said . |
| 51 | I was there on my own , because the Yorkshire Television film crew had been positioned on the roof of the Palace , and would have been quite at a loss but a lady from the Yorkshire Post spotted me and kindly accompanied me for a little while . |
| 52 | Indeed , the fact that he did not refer her to a different psychiatrist convinced me for a long time that I had misconstrued the situation . |
| 53 | The sweaty exertions of the players , the movement of their pale , hairy legs , their breathless staccato shouts of ‘ Oh , well played ! ’ and ‘ Just out ! ’ occupied her for a few minutes . |
| 54 | Also a photo of all the officers of Walsall that I saw in a second hand shop and I went and bought it for a few pence . |
| 55 | My first girlfriend left me for a new man . |
| 56 | you left me for a classical guitarist . |
| 57 | Pilot Stephen Grey was unhurt apart from a minor neck injury which hospitalised him for a short period . |
| 58 | ‘ Goodnight ! ’ she wished him for a fourth time , and went to her room feeling very much better about everything . |
| 59 | Covering the work to protect from frost and rain , we left it for a few days to dry , which helps the shuttering to loosen itself too . |
| 60 | I denied it for a long time because I was so determined to make this marriage work , but the reality was that we did n't really care for each other any more , or at least somewhere among all the battles our love had been well and truly buried . |