Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [verb] [pers pn] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Guido took a mouthful of his Cynar and seemed to savour it for a moment . |
| 2 | Vass spread his long fingers over the chair arms and seemed to contemplate them for a moment . |
| 3 | Alex stomped by and declined to join them for an early morning cocktail . |
| 4 | ( He had in fact put on weight while resting after Alfredo Alfredo , and needed to lose it for the role anyway . |
| 5 | The priest whom she eventually accosted took one look at her , an ill-proportioned , arrogant child with cheap clips in her gaudy hair , and started grilling her for an address . |
| 6 | After a chase on foot of over three miles he had finally run out of puff and offered to fight me for the goods . |
| 7 | In fact , Dustin was not unknown to Nichols , who had seen him in Journey of the Fifth Horse and had auditioned him for the Broadway musical The Apple Tree . |
| 8 | The Guardian of Jan. 9 , for example , reported that Chinese Communist Party ( CCP ) documents circulated internally in late December had been critical of Gorbachev and had blamed him for the " subversion " of socialism in Eastern Europe . |
| 9 | Applicants were given cash grants , usually no more than £75 , and trusted to use it for the purpose they had proposed - such as buying a bicycle to do a newspaper round , obtaining equipment for a camping trip , or acquiring the wherewithal to learn a new skill or a sport . |