Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] for a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | he asked me for a few slices of bread which he broke into pieces and scattered over the roof . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | His eyes were ice-bright , and pierced her like twin blades as he regarded her for a long moment . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | We tried it for a whole year . |
| 10 | He studied her for a long time , then reached out and touched a wet strand of her hair . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The two owners were aged 84 and 71 and , after the chewing incident , the RSPCA swapped it for a smaller dog . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | One hour later we dissociated the nerves , cultured them for a few hours , and double-labelled them with an anti-BrdU antibody and an antibody that labels oligodendrocyte precursor cells . |
| 16 | I waited until the tea was ready then joined them for a warming meal of steak and kidney pudding , followed by a very hot mug of tea into which was placed a measure of Navy rum . |
| 17 | My father went mad and I think he actually hated me for a short while . |
| 18 | After the death of old Daniel , the five year lease was carried on by old Smythe who renewed it for a further term of two years though at a lower rental . |
| 19 | So , ‘ Goodnight , Ven , ’ she bade him for a third time , only this time she stretched up to him and touched her lips to his cheek . |
| 20 | Eventually we worked out where the line had been and followed it for a short way up to a demolished bridge . |
| 21 | Charles pressed it for a long time . |
| 22 | I enjoyed it for a few weeks but then went to Stanley . ’ |
| 23 | In the end she had taken the brooch back to the shop and exchanged it for a plain silver cross on a chain . |
| 24 | Well I stuck it for a long time , Di went to sleep and I got out and I had a look and I , the only thing that I could see , and it was two o'clock , half past two this morning , er the er the one side of the big house over there was full of lights , they had all the lights on and there were two cars outside with their lights on . |
| 25 | The regime thus charged him with damage of government property and jailed him for a few months until he was released under a general amnesty . |
| 26 | Anne watched her for a few moments in stunned silence , trying to decide if she meant what she had said . |
| 27 | Elaine watched her for a few minutes before paddling further into the shore , lying on the soft , creamy sand , letting the shallow water caress her feet and legs . |
| 28 | Anabelle watched him for a long while , but he did n't twitch a muscle . |
| 29 | Sorrel watched him for a few seconds , then snatched it out of his hands and stuck it in her mouth . |
| 30 | He examined it for a few moments , then realised Tock was standing beside him with a can of oil . |