Example sentences of "of [noun] [pron] [vb past] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At last he raised his head , and with a feeling of dread she searched for the triumph she was sure she must see now in his eyes . |
| 2 | Having been wintered out on the heterosexual plains of Ipswich I longed for the company of other dykes . |
| 3 | This innovation is especially significant as it suggests that Marx did not believe there was necessarily one set scheme of evolution which applied for the whole of mankind , the view which was held implicitly by most of Marx 's contemporaries . |
| 4 | Banks , and eventually borrowers , had the advantage that the rate of interest they paid for the deposit would be slightly less than that on a conventional time deposit . |
| 5 | ‘ Lots of Brits who spied for the Soviets died peacefully in their beds . ’ |
| 6 | The City took a dim view of what it regarded as the inordinate amount of time it took for the group to return a profit there . |
| 7 | But in the fraction of time it took for the dogs to renew their attack , Angel One 's combat-trained eye registered something vital . |
| 8 | With repairs completed in the nick of time she sailed for the operation with a depleted crew . |