Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [pron] [adv] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He conceded that it was hard on Alexander , and later came to respect him greatly for the way in which he gave Worrell his fullest support as vice-captain . |
| 2 | So I decided to take them outside for a breath of fresh air , ’ she added , turning her worried blue eyes in mute appeal to the uniformed policewoman sitting in the corner of the room . |
| 3 | I went to visit her just for a coffee or something , and she started saying , after a lot of stuttering , that I was having an affair with her husband . |
| 4 | Two people replied — a man who offered to take it away for a fiver and Mrs Morrison , who dropped in for a quick look and said she wanted something for her playroom . |
| 5 | I made a convincing show of joining in all this horse-play and appeared to enjoy it hugely for a week or so while I thought about what I could do to our cousin . |
| 6 | Marx also believed that the day of Christianity was already past : it really belonged to an earlier , feudal pattern of society , and had been undermined beyond hope of recovery by the emergence of the bourgeois culture , which had already passed beyond it , and appeared to maintain it only for the most cynical of purposes . |
| 7 | He had to hold her one-handed for a moment , and to hold her steady even though she was fighting him hard . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've concreted up the mouth of the cave and the gap in the rocks which it burst through because I wanted to hold it there for a bit longer . |