Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] [pers pn] for " in BNC.
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1 | Clubs punished him for taking unauthorised time off , missing training and breaking curfew . |
2 | Nutty adjusted them for him . |
3 | His deep eyes regarded her for a moment , then he looked at Rory . |
4 | The President regarded him for a moment and Trent thought that the old man might rally . |
5 | Both districts selected him for their under-21 practice matches in January , but the youngster , who played for Ayr while he was still at Kyle Academy , opted for his home district , Glasgow . |
6 | Its cries of distress saddened her for years . |
7 | The dark eyes fixed her for a moment . |
8 | Well my Mum done it for me . |
9 | His sad tones prepared them for the news as he announced that German troops had not withdrawn from Poland and consequently Britain was now at war with Germany . |
10 | Thoughts of Wendell Harvey , of possible passers-by , of wedding dates , receded from his mind as his desire for this lovely , passionate girl matched hers for him . |
11 | is called we that 's the question read it for yourself ! |
12 | The four tapes sold them for fifteen pounds in |
13 | Has our education prepared us for such perplexing indecision ? |
14 | I mean , it was n't the kind of work RADA trained you for . |
15 | The woman solved it for me by stopping and following Marcus out of the room . |
16 | Classical pharmacology prepared us for receptor diversity in that each of the stimuli listed in Fig. 1 acts through a separate receptor . |
17 | In retrospect , it seemed that the Lord protected her for the first few days , and then … |
18 | But two weeks later a friend in the motor trade serviced it for him and proclaimed the car to be in sound condition and a good deal . |
19 | I mean , what help has the British Government given us for preparing for 1992 ? |
20 | After visiting Queen 's the man took her for a walk near Twickenham Bridge where he attacked her . |
21 | At about four he rang up the number given him for Gerald Seymour-Strachey , but he was answered by a not too refined woman 's voice — a voice with a touch of the treacle tart in it , and a touch of the plain tart as well . |
22 | Cecilia has done well — she is now on a polytechnic degree course — but nothing in her years in care prepared her for independent living . |
23 | Our fathers disciplined us for a little while as they thought best ; but God disciplines us for our good , that we may share in his holiness . |
24 | All shale and weeds and winds that picked up speed as they swooped in off the ocean , this strip of barren land prepared you for the final desolation of the Crumbles . |
25 | There is , therefore , an acceptance that work as it is experienced is ‘ what school prepared us for ’ . |
26 | Baddam 's experience qualified him for his most ambitious known project — an abridgement of the Royal Society 's Philosophical Transactions . |