Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] for the [noun] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Reflecting that the librarian 's opinion of academics was about as low as hers of journalists , Loretta asked politely for the current Who 's Who .
2 Not that I cared much for the way he kept them .
3 For those not counting calories quite so strictly , there 's this month 's dinner party , designed especially for the cook who wants the best of all worlds — dishes to prepare ahead and freeze , and dishes requiring little , or no , last-minute attention .
4 But even if he chose lucky and came straight for the exit I had taken , I reckoned I could make at least twenty yards before he would open the door behind me .
5 went away for the weekend we could ask him along could n't we ?
6 And we went there for the Christmas one did n't we ?
7 The working-class wives of early eighteenth-century London earned from charring , laundry , nursing , making and mending clothes , hawking , silk-winding and in the catering and victualling services : The great majority of women were unable to work in male trades and , since nearly three quarters of women wanted to or had to work for a living , they necessarily competed intensely for the work which was left , much of it of a casual nature and none of it organised by gilds and livery companies .
8 Nathan waited patiently for the remissions which made it possible for the ruined mind to function for a time ; he sat by the sick man , who by now was almost blind ; the paralysis was , after all , general .
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