Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [vb past] [adv prt] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | In spite of her bulk she moved swiftly to grab the instrument , and she stepped back for fear it should be taken from her again . |
2 | It was raining and there was this walkie-talkie twisting around my head , there was police hats rolling in the road , and they radioed in for assistance . |
3 | He was not tall , close to minimum height in fact , but he was stocky , and he made up for lack of inches with a pressing , high-speed manner which sometimes made people think he was all noise and movement and no intelligence . |
4 | Oh , and he signed up for accountancy of course . |
5 | By six o'clock he was weary and bad tempered and he set out for home . |
6 | Naturally I agreed , and he set off for paris immediately with Ted Church as the UK observer . |
7 | I remember when I was out on the road , I had a particular connection with , we had a motor bike policy , and it was an appalling risk , and it came up for renewal , and er , nobody had take it round the market , and I mean , that that was an idol threat , because nobody in their right mind would want this particular motor and we said , well not if they want to jack up the premium on it , they wanted to jack it up by about thirty or forty per cent , and and the broker was not very happy about this . |