Example sentences of "[vb past] for [pers pn] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The violence of this transition became more cushioned for me in the mid-seventies , when we built our bamboo and coconut-wood home in the highlands of Bali , which for seven years now has served us as a sort of decompression chamber between the two worlds . |
| 2 | A Sky spokesman added : ‘ We agreed to a police request that Bobby Gould should not be at the ground , even though he worked for us in the same capacity at the first match between the two sides . ’ |
| 3 | You looked for him in the Green Room , but found only his jacket . |
| 4 | The case of DEC is tantalising : either the Alpha will do for the company what the VAX 8600 — quickly supplanted by the VAX 8650 — did for it in the 1980s , and the vast installed base of VAX machines will be replaced by Alpha AXPs , giving the company three years of fantastic growth that propel it to $25,000m , or the desperately late Alpha and the new OpenVMS will turn out to have too many bugs and glitches to be trusted , in which case , DEC will be trotting off after IBM . |
| 5 | Marion searched for him in the crowded room , and found him at last , talking to Sue 's dad near the window . |
| 6 | Gareth Morgan , his deputy and confidante , waited for him in the large office with windows overlooking the City . |