Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] for [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ First , my miserable Yankee friend , the good Brigadeführer Farber has recommended you for an immediate Iron Cross First Class which , from what he says , you deserve . ’ |
| 2 | Yvonne Paul whose The Glamour Game ( W H Allen , £2.95 ) tells all about the Glamour Biz sent me in the blouse off her back , drenched in exotic perfume , as a ‘ thank-you ’ after I 'd interviewed her for the Daily Mail and mentioned how much I liked her get-up . |
| 3 | Our fathers disciplined us for a little while as they thought best ; but God disciplines us for our good , that we may share in his holiness . |
| 4 | I am pleased to have the opportunity to raise this subject which has interested me for a long time . |
| 5 | It has n't prepared me for the outside world ; all it 's done is given me an awareness of myself . |
| 6 | Your father , and Elizabeth and the others , are very worried about you , because you have not visited them for a long time . |
| 7 | Nothing in the three villagers ' long but sheltered past could have prepared them for the horrendous sight that met their eyes . |
| 8 | Have n't seen them for a long time . |
| 9 | ‘ You do n't get over disliking someone simply because you have n't seen them for a long time . ’ |
| 10 | Well say hello to them for us cos we have n't seen them for a long time . |
| 11 | All shale and weeds and winds that picked up speed as they swooped in off the ocean , this strip of barren land prepared you for the final desolation of the Crumbles . |
| 12 | Have n't seen you for a long time have you ? |
| 13 | Oh here 's another dog I think oh it 's Judy 's , not it 's not hello , have n't seen you for a long time , hello , have n't seen her for a long time , morning , good morning oh she 's a sweetie is n't she ? forgotten her name come and say hello , I have n't seen you for ages , so him once on the , good morning . |
| 14 | It had prepared her for the coming meeting when she would be alone at last with the youth who was King of England ; the youth she loved … |
| 15 | But nothing had prepared her for the angry letter she received from the Duke of Edinburgh , says Morton . |
| 16 | But nothing had prepared her for the monumental size and sheer glamour of the building . |
| 17 | His father had named him for the Mughal Babur , a conqueror , a hard drinking , hard riding Turk who loved poetry , laughter and gardens . |
| 18 | Double world light-middleweight champion , Diane Bell , showed no sign of the back injury that had sidelined her for the past month . |
| 19 | It was when I had n't seen him for a long time and I was all wound up . |
| 20 | His crooked smile was very much in evidence and Matey could have told her that since her arrival Dr Neil had been happier than she had seen him for a long time — there had been fewer backslidings towards the ‘ nasty whisky ’ since McAllister had appeared in his life to provide him with such rich amusement . |
| 21 | The big fella is more keyed up than I 've seen him for a long time and he is channelling all his energies into one final world cup fling . |
| 22 | Oh here 's another dog I think oh it 's Judy 's , not it 's not hello , have n't seen you for a long time , hello , have n't seen her for a long time , morning , good morning oh she 's a sweetie is n't she ? forgotten her name come and say hello , I have n't seen you for ages , so him once on the , good morning . |
| 23 | ‘ You must have done it for a good reason . |
| 24 | Not for the first time she wondered how on earth her father had persuaded the children to call him ‘ Gamps ’ and decided that he had done it for the sole purpose of driving her mad . |
| 25 | I have just done it for the only time in the 23,400,000 minutes of my life so far , and I doubt if I 'll do it again , so call these odds one in 25 million . |
| 26 | She was seized with a desire to feel his hand on her breast again , as she had felt it for a fleeting second months ago . |
| 27 | I picked the song because I had written it for a special person and it was not a Dr Hook song . |
| 28 | I 've suspected it for a long time , but now it 's absolutely dear ! |
| 29 | Her father 's expression was the warmest she 'd seen it for a long time . |
| 30 | I only brought that one down because we have n't seen it for a long time , just choose one |