Example sentences of "[vb pp] for [pers pn] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ The money we lifted was hardly intended for them in the first place , was it ? ’ |
2 | Yes , Mrs Jones , we have a room booked for you on the thirtieth of July — can I be of any assistance to you ? |
3 | Little did I imagine that such a move was destined for me within the next two years . |
4 | And after all the running around I 've done for you in the last couple of days . |
5 | He had adopted his slighting manner , he knew , to protect himself from the attraction which she had possessed for him from the first moment that he had seen her . |
6 | I was running the wrong race ; I should never have been entered for it in the first place . |
7 | She 'd slaved for him for the last seven year , and before that ever since she was born — eight or nine year was it — at the Old Mint ? |
8 | Sometimes the contrast is not so clearly expressed for us in the twentieth century as it would have been in the first century , so we have to rely on commentaries to point out the way that the apostle was thinking . |