Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [vb past] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and I competed for the Quain Essay prize — a sum of 50 — to be written on the survival of the medieval conception of tragedy in post-medieval literature . |
| 2 | ‘ And who paid for the extra deliveries ? |
| 3 | His lips twisted and she waited for the inevitable cynical response , but surprisingly it did n't come . |
| 4 | For instance , when Paris designated the wanton APHRODITE as the most beautiful of the goddesses , Hera 's morals were affronted and she arranged for the Trojan Wars to occur as just recrimination for the slight . |
| 5 | The balls and parties given by the Franklins did little to buoy up her spirits , being , as she described herself , ‘ such a shy , reserved being ’ , and she longed for the quiet , regular family life of home . |
| 6 | The colonel gave me a friendly pat on the shoulder , and we made for the outside world again . |
| 7 | Creed had requisitioned an open car , and he stood for the entire procession , as a mark of his own personal respect for the deceased . |
| 8 | And it asked for the Scottish Office Guidelines , and those in Lord Justice Butler-Sloss 's Cleveland Report , to be made law . |