Example sentences of "[pers pn] for [adj] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | They did n't want me for pastoral and I 'm not head of department . |
| 2 | You despised me for that and finally told me you hated me . |
| 3 | It was five or six minutes later that Piladu appeared on the mountainside , stared at them for sometime and then tramped slowly towards them tightly wrapped in his hooded cloak . |
| 4 | The subsequent chronology of the licences , as well as the varying charges for them , reveal that the king was granting them for political and financial ends , to make friends and raise cash , particularly from the late 1290s when he desperately needed both . |
| 5 | It was a closely fought struggle in Grade Three between the two Ballynahinch teams , with just one point separating them for first and second places , with the ‘ B ’ set just edging into the lead for top honours . |
| 6 | they had to sell them for three and threepence , three farthings . |
| 7 | Well I actually said thank you for that and she dissolved into fits of laughter . |
| 8 | But nothing prepares you for four and a half hours climbing up crumbling ice . |
| 9 | The Judge held that George was responsible for instigating the crime and jailed him for four and a half years . |
| 10 | ‘ What have I done ? ’ she said , her voice trembling , ‘ my baby , I 've lost him for good and it 's all your fault , Craig . ’ |
| 11 | Lewis was tired , and Waqar off-glided him for two and straight-drove him to the pavilion boundary . |
| 12 | and my heart went some where else and I think erm , the , the marriage erm , the love in my marriage was definitely killed by an act which my partner did and I would fall into the crimes of passion I think because I mean to , to me he committed the deadly sin of all and that was adultery and I could never forgive him for that and I think that picks up on a lot , many issues which have been raised tonight about you have to have trust in a partnership , you have to give and take and people change and some people can accept all that but I was not willing to do so . |
| 13 | ‘ We have watched him for three and a half years and see nothing . |
| 14 | Jailing him for three and a half years Judge Richard Lowry described his behaviour as a dreadful crime . |
| 15 | Russell pretty good figures , this is er fifteenth over , two for seventeen , eight maidens , giving the one wicket that goes field him for thirty-four and he comes up again , that little hop and bowls to DaSilva goes down the pitch , tips this one up to mid-on , but er wo n't get one as figure Lawrence is there to stop it , so no run , to play to sixteen overs , seven twenty eight . |
| 16 | He was going to lose her for good and was powerless to stop the inexorable wheel of Fortune from taking her from him . |
| 17 | A strategy to have him with her for longer and to please him . ’ |
| 18 | I 've been seeing her for 3 and a half years . |
| 19 | I did it for one and he did n't get in ! |
| 20 | It 's not , it 's just like a little bead , it 's meant to be on it for that and |
| 21 | no you just use it for that and I 'm not going anywhere else |
| 22 | Heated debate over the dam project took place during the 15-day NPC session , with many delegates opposing it for environmental and financial reasons . |
| 23 | The fire service will use Alpha House and the 2.4 acres of ground that come with it for practical and theoretical training courses . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've been taking it for two and a half years . |
| 25 | have managers been made adequately aware of the potential of the system and given help to use it for strategic and management control decision making ? |
| 26 | I hit one six and then instead of just trying to hit a single from the next I tried to hit it for four and was out . |
| 27 | Keep this manual by you when using LIFESPAN and refer to it for specific and detailed information on particular facilities |
| 28 | You can use it for elaborate and complicated patterns but its quite beautiful just simply knitted for a velvet-like jacket or sweater — tremendously rich in simple black or a deep colour . |
| 29 | As with Elizabethan concepts of society , where each man was supposed to labour in his vocation and place , each character usually belongs to one medium and only moves out of it for special and clearly defined purposes , love , hate , respect , mockery , dissimulation , self-revelation . |
| 30 | Leave it for longer and you should find that it goes completely solid . |