Example sentences of "[vb past] for a [noun sg] and [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With an interpreter we met for a drink and he told me that because his home was in East Germany he had been forbidden to travel abroad until quite recently when he became an old-age Pensioner ; this voyage was his first taste of freedom . |
| 2 | But then a lot of them fancied their chances that year — Peter Oosterhuis , Nick Faldo , and so on , and Bobby Clampett led for a while and it looked as though they might not be able to catch him . |
| 3 | Their friends told them they were crazy , it sold for a nickel and nobody , they discovered , had the curiosity to buy it although it did make all the local Greenwich Village news-stands . |
| 4 | I gathered up all my courage and went home and we went for a walk and I just told him . |
| 5 | and you go and stand at those castle round parts and we went for a walk and there was a football match going on was n't there ? |
| 6 | Nobody spoke for a while and it was Sarah who eventually broke the silence . |
| 7 | That was what he did for a living and it stayed with him all his life . |
| 8 | He paused for a moment and she realized that she had said something wrong . |