Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [vb past] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had for a while become a Monotype operator , on one of the " women 's machines " , and also remembers " trying to do imposition " and doing a little display work in one mainly jobbing firm where she worked for a short time . |
| 2 | A member of the Eugenics Education Society , the Clerical and Medical Committee of the BMA — where he campaigned for a stronger moral lead from the profession — and the National Council for Combating Venereal Disease , he moved freely between religious , political and scientific spheres . |
| 3 | She felt more alive than she had for a long time . |
| 4 | As a proportion of national consumer expenditure , advertising more than doubled between 1945 and 1990 , so they competed for a growing purse . |
| 5 | She was by that time too valuable a property to be junked , so they settled for a short suspension and a revised entry in the book . |
| 6 | Although he qualified for a few regional events , in fact he was aiming much higher : he wanted a crack at the Open Championship . |
| 7 | He felt happier than he had for a long time . |
| 8 | Ludovico called exuberantly for champagne but it was unobtainable , so he settled for a sweet fizzy wine instead . |
| 9 | If I waited for a hundred years , if I devoted my life to fasting and asceticism and scholarship as the Druids do , still it would make no difference . |
| 10 | It 's not as if I worked for a large network news show . |
| 11 | If you studied for a two-year teachers ' certificate at the University before the early 1980s , you qualify to join the Duannians . |
| 12 | Experience may help you take some of these into account but if you went for a fixed fee you may have to pitch it at such a level to allow for these that it 's perhaps twice what it might be and you could lose the client . |
| 13 | If you asked for a special audit they would probably welcome it , as an indication that the bank was going to great lengths not to put them out of business . " |
| 14 | Some from , a lot from the heavens , because it rained for a solid week after the excavator had left and erm from the springs , it 's a natural water-gathering area . |
| 15 | Technically , it was not a presidential system , because it provided for a dual executive , with a president and a prime minister . |
| 16 | ‘ He had wanted to be a doctor since he asked for a medical bag for Christmas when he was six-years-old . |
| 17 | And then , because she could n't bear to quarrel with him the night before she left for a new life , she said , ‘ I 'm wearing your mother 's brooch , Fran . |
| 18 | She had repaid £35 in seven monthly instalments of £5 , when she asked for a second loan . |
| 19 | As she hunted for a worn pair of leather gloves in the pocket of her pelisse , she did not appear to notice that she had been pulled closely in to the gentleman for a few brief seconds . |
| 20 | The woman was attacked in the early hours of Wednesday at an isolated station at Mexborough , South Yorks , as she waited for a late train home . |
| 21 | She barely noticed it at all as she stood for a few seconds in front of the mirror and pulled the comb through her hair . |
| 22 | She might have guessed that as soon as she tried for a little peace and quiet the whole place would be inundated with callers . |
| 23 | The station was offered to us for the sum of £20,000 , but when we asked for a private valuation in the hope of securing a loan to purchase the site , the valuer valued the site at only £10,000 . |
| 24 | I began to wonder what was happening when we stood for a long time at Birmingham New Street . |
| 25 | Anglers discovered dead fish frozen into the Grand Union Canal when they arrived for a major match . |
| 26 | CAMERA-shy ministers avoided photographers yesterday as they gathered for a crucial Cabinet meeting to thrash out the Government 's public spending plans for the coming financial year . |
| 27 | As they longed for a spiritual assurance of Christ 's presence and received it in the Holy Spirit which literally inspired in them knowledge and love of God so the meditator may grow in inner spiritual knowledge ( c.33 , 36 ) . |
| 28 | Resting gratefully on his pitchfork as they waited for a slow-moving loaded wagon to reach them from the far end of the field , Seb said , ‘ There 'll be another hundred acres to work by the spring . |
| 29 | Saunders , playing his final match for Liverpool before his £2.3m move to Aston Villa , clashed with Elliott in the 10th minute as they went for a 50-50 ball . |
| 30 | When it happened for a third time , it became remarkable enough to distract him from a rapt analysis of Heather 's reasoning . |