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 | The bar had a headbanging range of Fuller 's beers but I decided I 'd better be in training for the Exhilarator so I opted for an alcohol-free lager , turned my back to the bar and its temptations and scouted for Werewolf . |
| 4 | The ideal should be a circular seat but I felt it would take a considerable amount of timber with a lot of waster so I opted for an hexagonal shape . |
| 5 | She felt more alive than she had for a long time . |
| 6 | As a proportion of national consumer expenditure , advertising more than doubled between 1945 and 1990 , so they competed for a growing purse . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Although he qualified for a few regional events , in fact he was aiming much higher : he wanted a crack at the Open Championship . |
| 9 | He felt happier than he had for a long time . |
| 10 | Ludovico called exuberantly for champagne but it was unobtainable , so he settled for a sweet fizzy wine instead . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It 's not as if I worked for a large network news show . |
| 13 | If you studied for a two-year teachers ' certificate at the University before the early 1980s , you qualify to join the Duannians . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . " |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Technically , it was not a presidential system , because it provided for a dual executive , with a president and a prime minister . |
| 18 | She knew her limitations better than she knew her worth , and she taught in a private school because it gave her a little more latitude to come and go as she wished — an important point , since she cared for an old mother whom eighty years had made exacting . |
| 19 | ‘ He had wanted to be a doctor since he asked for a medical bag for Christmas when he was six-years-old . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | She had repaid £35 in seven monthly instalments of £5 , when she asked for a second loan . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | She might have guessed that as soon as she tried for a little peace and quiet the whole place would be inundated with callers . |
| 26 | Unwisely Spain intrigued for an anti-British coalition as she intrigued for an anti-American coalition in 1898 ; as Wellington observed , Spain acted ‘ as if Europe were at her feet ’ . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | I began to wonder what was happening when we stood for a long time at Birmingham New Street . |
| 29 | Anglers discovered dead fish frozen into the Grand Union Canal when they arrived for a major match . |
| 30 | 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 . |