Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pron] for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Sunday , then , ’ she said , and damned herself for the note of desperation in her voice . |
| 2 | After her marriage Signor Cantoni 's mother had seemed unable to bear a child so she took a large bunch of carnations to the Madonna and asked her for the gift of a baby . |
| 3 | At Zog Central they found the policewoman and asked her for the key to their spaceship . |
| 4 | I believe she has even phoned an old school friend of mine whom she avowedly dislikes and asked him for the manuscript of a symphony we once composed together . |
| 5 | They parked the vehicles and camouflaged themselves for the night , before settling down to cook . |
| 6 | Dirichlet , appalled by this , grabbed the page from Gauss and treasured it for the rest of his life . |
| 7 | No , well they 've actually done something this time , the accountant 's going to be there , I mean when we went last time they just said we know nothing about running a hall , we bought you here to tell us and charged us for the privilege . |
| 8 | They have accepted us and used us for the furthering of the Kingdom here in Taquaral . |
| 9 | His great-uncle took Charles under his wing and prepared him for the job ahead . |
| 10 | They are narrative , and tell us of a situation , or prepare us for some significant message : Once having told us the story , set the mood , and prepared us for the shout of a choir of angels , Handel could paint a triumphant musical fresco with just a few poetic words : |
| 11 | He straightened his tie and steeled himself for the meeting . |
| 12 | Time was the theme that fired his heart as a young student and affected him for the rest of his life . |
| 13 | The Chancellor gradually retired from acting as judge of first instance , and reserved himself for the Court of Appeal in Chancery and for the House of Lords . |
| 14 | Welcome back to Central News South : Coming up in a few minutes , the farmer who 's taken maternity hospital technology and adapted it for the lambing season . |
| 15 | But he would concede nothing , and in the end I gave him a dry little bow and thanked him for the tea . |
| 16 | She had n't told him much except that she did not like her neighbour Fireman Mosse and blamed him for the death of his wife . |
| 17 | ‘ Before training , Barry called a meeting and said the chairman had accused us of being greedy bastards and blamed us for the fine . |
| 18 | At this point she burst into tears and blamed herself for the break-up of their relationship . |
| 19 | When they reached the next chamber he extinguished it and exchanged it for the torch . |
| 20 | And braced myself for the deluge of his anger . |
| 21 | For some strange reason she could n't seem to relinquish her hold on the chain and braced herself for the wrench she was sure would follow when fitzAlan started towards the castle gates . |
| 22 | He anticipated and insured himself for the re-emergence of Richard Nixon from the political wilderness in 1968 , and correctly judged that Ronald Reagan would defeat Jimmy Carter in 1980 ( which was not such an inevitable result as the next eight years made it seem ) . |
| 23 | I climbed on to the shed roof and gathered myself for the jump . |
| 24 | While half of her brain hated and despised them for the job they were doing , the other half acknowledged that at least part of her present mission was to buy newspapers and read what was said . |
| 25 | De Valois saw it and accepted it for the repertory . |
| 26 | She was so proud of herself for getting that out , grinning wildly at the other woman , that Ruth could n't subject her to more and left them for the tennis courts while they unpacked the dusty Seat that seemed to be packed to the gunnels with baskets of clothes and packages . |
| 27 | We selected some of our favourites and snapped them for the magazine |
| 28 | However , perhaps the National Deaf Club 's most distinguished member was Arthur James Wilson , who succeeded S. Bright Lucas to the presidency and held it for the rest of his life . |