Example sentences of "[vb past] [pos pn] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he he got he got my hand for five seconds and then I I got I got his hand for ten something like that . |
| 2 | It 'd be easier if we met my troops for the first time at the concert , ’ he said . |
| 3 | ‘ When Glyndebourne commissioned my Paraphrase for their 1992 Mozart season , it was they who determined which opera I should use as a background for my piece . |
| 4 | Only your good news banished my cares for a while . |
| 5 | and we enjoyed it so much , we went and asked my mother for some more money , we stayed another week and then when we got back to London er Mrs said I think we better go , you know , get away from London in |
| 6 | After we had lived there for a few years , we wanted to buy it and do it up , so we asked my College for a mortgage . |
| 7 | Then , just before Christmas , he asked my father for my hand in marriage … |
| 8 | Produced my proposals for Ministers and under Secys , etc . |
| 9 | She made my bed for me and wound Little Ben as I hurtled into uniform . |
| 10 | ‘ I sold my house for £78,000 but then the building society wanted a mundic test and as a result I had to knock £11,000 off . |
| 11 | And oh , we loved the intimacy of having them so close , close enough that when I rode my bicycle for ‘ Committee ’ through the ‘ vomitarium ’ separating one wedge of audience from the next I was able to steady myself by grasping the leg of a gentleman who had stretched it over the side . |
| 12 | But you who knew me , pass on these words : that I squandered my youth for my country , that while the ship was fighting I kept to my post up in the cross trees and , when she sank-I went down with her . ’ ’ |
| 13 | Perhaps your father shared my taste for Beethoven . ’ |
| 14 | It turned out that he shared my liking for the more conventional kind of organ . |
| 15 | The nurse ( just twenty-two and looking forward to her holiday in Greece ) checked my hand for bits of glass and then applied an impression splint . |
| 16 | That 's how I got interested in the sport : I read about the first black champion , Jack Johnson and it created my interest for the first time . |
| 17 | ‘ He swopped my mother for a younger woman when he was in his late sixties . |
| 18 | I divorced my wife for smoking in the toilet ! |
| 19 | Her marriage had continued to slide downhill until eventually , after being evicted from the house , she divorced my stepfather for persistent cruelty , and took a job as the live-in caretaker of a seedy block of flats . |
| 20 | He wrung my hand for about five minutes and told me how much pleasure the meeting had given him , though God knows where he had extracted the pleasure from , and expressed the most fervent hope that we would become the firmest friends in the nearest possible future . |
| 21 | Because I just fixed my mortgage for four years with the Halifax , and it 's a total gamble fixing mortgages , by the way , if we , you know , because I do n't know where interest rates are going to go , but I , I fixed at seven point seven five percent for four years . |
| 22 | I then found my application for financial assistance for part-time study had been rejected ‘ because anthropology is not on the approved list of subjects ( in the Circular ) ’ ( Memo from HQ 1977 ) . |
| 23 | In Los Angeles , where I lectured for a living , I pursued my fascination for the harmonic patterns and golden-mean ratios which run so consistently through the sacred art , music and architecture of both Western and oriental mystical traditions . |
| 24 | Jordi was waiting for me outside after I had a bath and changed my clothes for dinner . |
| 25 | This climate has made me conservative and changed my plans for growing the business . ’ |
| 26 | Then he changed my understanding for ever . |
| 27 | And then Mr then erm dismissed my concerns for affordable supply in that it had all been said before . |
| 28 | He used my shoulder for a support while he was firing . |
| 29 | ‘ Margaret , ’ called my mother , and ‘ Margaret ’ again , her voice taking on the faint exasperation that had flavoured her tone as she used my name for many years now . |
| 30 | The men strained their ears for continuing sounds of the ghostly train . |