Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [pers pn] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | When eventually its report , Lead and Health , was published in 1980 , various environmental groups damned it for being too meek . |
| 2 | ‘ I have discovered that the black people I have been working with in the inner cities proposed me for the award . |
| 3 | For as long as it took me to get out of range , several birds used me for bombing practice , coming so close on occasions that ducking was a necessity rather than a flamboyant gesture . |
| 4 | The Chinese , who used ivory for elaborately carved handles and vessels as early as the Shang dynasty and in later times used it for a wide variety of personal items such as brush pots , wrist-rests , boxes , seals , snuff boxes and fans , had increasingly to import the material as the elephant herds in the southern provinces diminished . |
| 5 | Suddenly he looked tired , and there were deep furrows in his brow as his eyes scanned her for an instant . |
| 6 | A man in rags asked her for the price of a cup of tea . |
| 7 | His eyes surveyed her for a moment . |
| 8 | Her eyes beseeched him for the truth . |
| 9 | I had each Wednesday afternoon off from Russell 's and he enroled me , secretly , into his school for lessons with his normal classes , He and his wife held a weekly open house and these cramming sessions prepared me for the coming Halton entrance examination . |
| 10 | She came home to Oxford at weekends , and she and Eleanor and Anna spent Saturdays together , and often the husbands joined them for supper . |
| 11 | Alter this technique had been invented , it was only a matter of time before weapons designers adapted it for the detection of submarines . |
| 12 | The bald star had been left in tears earlier when fans jeered her for ripping up a picture of the Pope on a US chat show . |
| 13 | Much as their fans loved them for all their quirks , the aesthetics and comfort of a ground did not cross the mind of many football directors . |
| 14 | No eyes beheld them for any of its windows ; no one beat a carpet or scraped a cauldron or swilled out their slops . |
| 15 | If I had n't made that bet , and had n't then gone both ways , nine times out of ten Jude would have shown a beaten hand and raked in half the pot — while the lads trashed me for letting him off lightly . |
| 16 | Then I said , or perhaps one of my voices said it for me , " I do n't know . |
| 17 | Red Indians used it for nappies , and J&J might just follow in their tracks — encouraging us to flush the bog down the bog , as it were ? |
| 18 | The north American Indians hunted it for food and used the feather to decorate their headdresses , but the Mexican Aztecs were responsible for domesticating it . |
| 19 | Muslim parents favoured it for their daughters because men were barred the premises . |
| 20 | But as her parents took her for a swim , she collapsed without warning and died . |
| 21 | But the Germans admired them for their toughness and energy and in 1898 persuaded Britain , which then ran Bougainville , to swap the island for some German possessions elsewhere in the Pacific . |
| 22 | Dolphins have been hunted in the Black Sea since the late nineteenth century , when Russian fishermen sought them for their meat and oil . |
| 23 | During the Second World War , trainee fighter pilots used them for target practice , and as recently as 1968 , they were still being hunted for sport . |
| 24 | With rare exceptions the classical economists took it for granted that a reduction in the money-wage rate would be translated into the all important reduction in the real-wage rate which was required by marginal productivity theory . |
| 25 | One of the pourers reproved me for eating cheese before trying the wine . |
| 26 | It also remained a source of controversy among the Canadian electorate , its supporters maintaining that it was essential for competing with the world 's other large trading blocs , while its opponents blamed it for Canada 's current economic malaise . |
| 27 | His enemies among the ancient geographers attacked him for what he reported about the mysterious North — Great Britain , Jutland , and whatever Thule was . |
| 28 | But Ken 's experience in working with wood , coupled to a keen eye for design , was soon put to good use when customers asked him for ideas on pond layout , particularly those with a Japanese flavour . |
| 29 | Egyptians used it for embalming their dead , the Mesopotamians used it as perfume and the Romans thought it was an aphrodisiac . |
| 30 | The stewardesses woke them for a champagne breakfast . |