Example sentences of "[subord] [noun] [verb] [vb pp] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Tallis went quickly to the long-house , where Wynne-Jones had gone for extra safety , she found him huddled in a corner , shaking violently , his body wrapped in skins and his bird-feather cloak . |
| 2 | ‘ It gave her quite a shock , ’ said Bob Murray , managing director of the International Freight firm in Small Heath , Birmingham , where Carolyn has worked for three years . |
| 3 | Although homoeopathy has survived for close on two hundred years without drastic changes , it is not a static thing , and variations and modifications have been made to it throughout its history . |
| 4 | In the course of time the Mercian kingdom also came to embrace much of the territory , for example , of the Wocensaete or Wreocensaete , who took their name from the Wrekin and dominated the north Shropshire plain , and it would probably be the case , if charter-material had survived for this area of north-west Mercia analogous to that which has survived for the Hwicce , that kings of the Wreocensaete emerged in varying degrees of dependence on or subjection to the Mercian ruler . |
| 5 | ‘ IF Bulgaria had qualified for Euro 92 they would have had a good chance of winning it . |
| 6 | Thus the finding of a series of coins terminating in about 150 BC could not be used as evidence that the occupation of a site ceased in about that year , for even if occupation had continued for another hundred years , no other coins would have been available to be used and lost . |
| 7 | His view of the visible church , for example , was much wider than that of even Whitgift , as he appeared to argue that since Christ had died for all , all men and women — including Roman Catholics — were potentially part of the visible church , and as such should be offered the sacrament of the eucharist , if they were prepared to receive it in good faith . |
| 8 | A state of emergency was ordered for Baku by the USSR Supreme Soviet Presidium on Jan. 19 , after demonstrators had massed for three consecutive days outside the Azerbaijan CP central committee 's headquarters to demand the leadership 's resignation , and had erected barricades on the city 's outskirts to prevent the entry of Soviet troops . |
| 9 | Many of the indicators chosen are suspect , as Macnicol has shown for earlier periods , in that they simply count contact with state agencies , and it is a commonplace observation that the poor are more likely to be in contact with social workers because they are poor ( Becker , 1988 ) ; young drug-takers in inner cities are more visible than wealthy socialites but drug-taking and drinking stretch across social groups ( O'Bryan , 1989 ; Plant , 1989 ) ; desertion of women by husbands and the choice to remain unmarried are not restricted to the poor ; and so on and so on . |
| 10 | Significantly , by the end of the period coinage as cash had appeared for commercial transactions . |
| 11 | Both also operated as armies had done for many previous centuries by finding their supplies from the land as they moved about . |
| 12 | Working-class women cuddled their babies up in the warm as women had done for millions of years . |