Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [noun] for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then his iron control seemed to give way for a moment , his fingers clenching as he pulled her roughly against him . |
| 2 | Returning to America he began to write features for a newspaper called the Toronto Star Weekly in 1919 , and in 1921 was married of his own free will to a woman he had met and fallen in love with earlier . |
| 3 | ‘ We decided to suspend treatment for a while but have been put on the waiting list at the Ulster . |
| 4 | Rather rudely , perhaps , Hamilton decided to take Bustos for a romp and leave them all to it . |
| 5 | She drew a blanket over Midnight , who was lying huddled on the floor , and went to get straw for a bed . |
| 6 | ‘ He was at the house , when I went to take Azor for a walk , ’ she stated stiffly . |
| 7 | And before long Hawker Siddeley 's board of directors agreed to approach Unimation for a licence to make its robot in Britain . |
| 8 | He continued to study terpenes for a while but , under Thomas Purdie and James Irvine , who had established a strong school of carbohydrate research at St Andrews , he switched to this field . |
| 9 | Jack had to fill the coal scuttles , Kevin to bring in the logs , Aengus had to roll yesterday 's papers into sausage-like shapes which would be used for lighting the fires later , Gerry , who was meant to be the animal lover , had to take Oswald for a run in the park , and see that there was something on the bird table in the garden , and Ronan had to open the big heavy curtains in the front rooms , take the milk in from the steps and place it in the big fridge and brush whatever had to be brushed from the big granite steps leading up to the house . |
| 10 | Dismantling the Clunbury coach had to take priority for a while but now our minds are firmly on the bridge project and we would like like to bring it to completion as soon as possible . |
| 11 | Then an attempted entry to a local authority hairdressing course went embarrassingly wrong ; it finished with Mrs Finni having to spell out her daughter 's handicap to students and a flustered teacher who eventually refused to accept responsibility for a girl who could never be left alone in the classroom . |
| 12 | Such an addition could well be implied into the contract by the court anyway , in instances where the seller refused to recognise responsibility for a defect even though he was clearly responsible , so that the refusal amounted to clear unreasonableness or even bad faith . |