Example sentences of "of [pron] for [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did the business with my camera , now there was plenty of light with the barn doors open , and was in the process of replacing the tarpaulin when the alarm bells went off and scared the hell out of me for the second time in five minutes . |
| 2 | As the white cliffs of Dover receded and the coast of France drew near , the inimitable excitement of ‘ abroad ’ took hold of me for the first time — the only really positive emotion I had felt for twenty-six months . |
| 3 | ‘ I sent him ahead of me for the six-month quarantine , and the day he got out was one of the best days of my life . ’ |
| 4 | The lead fisherman wore shades ( ever see fish wearing glasses ? ) for the bluesy number and got rid of them for a rappy tune ( thank God ! ) . |
| 5 | There was sand everywhere between the knee-high crags , so I climbed on one of them for a better view . |
| 6 | Some people have felt that this borrowing from Dorothy and others shows a certain egotism on Wordsworth 's part , but it was his method as an artist to absorb things into himself , and think of them for a long period before writing them down ; nor is it necessary to maintain , in any case , that the ‘ I ’ of a Wordsworth poem is necessarily the poet himself — it may stand as a universal shorthand symbol with which the reader can equally identify . |
| 7 | I have n't seen one of them for a long time |
| 8 | ‘ I have n't done any of them for a long time . |
| 9 | I have n't had one of them for a long time . |
| 10 | Could do with one of them for a long time , could n't I ? |
| 11 | ‘ It has two rooms and she is willing to let your client move into one of them for a short period . |
| 12 | Further inquiries , by the CIA , had established that these digital electric timers were prototypes , unique to Meister et Bollier of Zurich , who had made 20 of them for a Libyan intelligence organization in 1985 . |
| 13 | That is an inadequate answer , given that more than a year ago there was a severe weather crisis throughout the country , especially in the east midlands district where 2 million people were without supplies , some of them for a considerable period . |
| 14 | The ploughs and gritters do their best , of course , but it 's not at all uncommon for the elements to get the better of them for a little while . |
| 15 | Lisa had one of them for a little while . |
| 16 | Between 1947 and 1952 he produced no less than 300 short films , many of them for the Canadian Government , and on these merits he was appointed Director of Outside Broadcasts , Features and Documentaries with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in 1952 . |
| 17 | Even more interestingly , I understand that even some of Mrs Thatcher 's friends share this opinion and are proposing — some of them for the first time in their lives — not to vote for the Tories . |
| 18 | Seventy boys and girls from U6 to U14 played rugby — most of them for the first time ever . |
| 19 | According to forecasts no less than 2 million people will visit Seville in the six months of Expo , many of them for the first time . |
| 20 | Any major phases or colonisation are as likely to have taken place in the seventh , eighth or ninth centuries , as Peter Sawyer has suggested , and therefore to be undocumented , as they are to have happened in the thirteenth century , when we hear of them for the first time from surviving records . |
| 21 | ‘ Millions of people travel to the region every year many of them for the first time and we want to make sure that the lasting impression they take with them is a good one . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Millions of people travel to the region every year , many of them for the first time , and we want to make sure the lasting impression they take with them is a good one . ’ |
| 23 | The tour in Japan was over and David left — he sailed for Vladivostok — and finally , just to get rid of me as usual ( if you keep making enough noise they 'll get rid of you for a little peace and quiet ) they gave me a visa . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've been trying to get hold of you for the past half-hour ! ’ |
| 25 | In 1909 the LCC completely reorganized its school welfare programme and formed a central co-ordinating body with a number of Children 's Care ( School ) Committees on the basis of one for every elementary school . |
| 26 | What actually happened was my a friend of mine or really was a friend of mine for a short time , he he was in the company when I joined , and er after two months he told me he was leaving . |
| 27 | Likely any car would have traces of it for a long time . |
| 28 | Even with this kind of evidence , even with that kind of evidence , almost uniquely good evidence in my experience , the Council leadership , which is in , has been in possession of it for the best part of a month has made no move to suspend any Chief Officer on charges of gross misconduct , which of course if it had been any of our members accused of something like that , they 'd have been down the road instantly , nor has it reinstated any worker wrongly sacked . |
| 29 | THESE FOUR boxes of action highlights from Pickwick enable the devout to exhume the 1992 World Cup , feeling it again as if they were in attendance in Australasia once more or seeing much of it for the first time if sleep and work schedules got in the way during those 33 hectic days and nights . |
| 30 | I 've pulled him out of it I pulled him out of it for the simple reason , he is the only one which is , I did n't want to segregate him on his own . |