Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have heard them for some time ; now we see them , red and white on the green of the plains . |
| 2 | Once upon a time , thought Lydia , when I was in love with him , he would 've socked me for that . |
| 3 | On the machine build that he 's given me for this year , of which that is an example . |
| 4 | Anyway , I 'd been very busy the day before and Doreen had irritated me for other reasons . |
| 5 | And why not have placed them for safe keeping in a pocket , satchel or valise ? |
| 6 | One that has plagued me for some while . |
| 7 | In addition to securing Commonwealth support for their position , the British sought to consolidate their own aviation policy into some definable form , something which had eluded them for several years . |
| 8 | What could be anticipated with confidence was the beneficial results of redistribution , for Unionists had expected them for some time . |
| 9 | They had known all along they had a good , competitive car ; a single mistake had mired them for three races ; it was now solved and they could build for the future . |
| 10 | London University had interviewed me for both of the courses for which I had applied : Arabic and Economics , and Swahili and Commercial Law . |
| 11 | I have n't owned you for ten years . |
| 12 | More than a hundred victims have now approached him for legal advice and doctors are still seeing new cases six weeks after chryptosporidium was first identified in the Farmoor reservoir . |
| 13 | A GRATEFUL reader who would like to thank her daughter for the surprise of a lifetime has nominated her for this week 's bouquet . |
| 14 | I can not believe so many people have attacked her for petty reasons , like here lack of smiling . |
| 15 | Steffi Graf has won it for six of the last seven years , picking up a cheque for around £45,000 for her latest victory in October . |
| 16 | For space close to the king was limited , and few occupied it for more than a decade or so , partly through accidents of mortality , partly through a career-structure in which the holding of high office in the royal household was often the prelude to a provincial post , but most of all through the play of faction around the king . |
| 17 | Well yes since leaving college yes it 's been predominantly figurative and I always take my subject matter from things that I 've seen which have interested me for one reason or another . |
| 18 | Nothing had prepared me for that . |
| 19 | You could have prepared me for this — ’ |
| 20 | I have to say that nothing in my career so far has prepared me for this kind of work . |
| 21 | And although I 'm not I enjoyed the piping , I enjoyed But I was not at peace I says I says , you 've even ruined me for this . |
| 22 | You know they could have shot me for that . |
| 23 | Hast Thou ever seen me for that reason at all dejected ? |
| 24 | My little girl Natasha was with a friend at the time and because my mum had n't seen me for some time she was concerned . |
| 25 | It was a full week before they reappeared in The Bar ; we had n't seen them for six nights and there had been much discussion . |
| 26 | I had not seen them for some time . |
| 27 | A couple of Russian exiles ; I have n't seen them for ten years . |
| 28 | Tony 's mother had made them for this occasion , and though recipes vary slightly the end result is a large currant biscuit . |
| 29 | alright he 's met you for five minutes but he 's come here I said this gang of children , I said the poor bugger 's not going to know what hit him I said alright if it 's just for Sally 's three I said he 's gon na be , he 's not gon na be relaxed I said I know that for a fact I said I know what it was like when I used to go and visit your people when I was |
| 30 | ‘ I have sought you for many a long day , ’ said Caspar , cheerfully , pursuing the rather frail ploy he had thought up earlier in case of precisely this eventuality . |