Example sentences of "[vb pp] for [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What 's called a Norwegian list , w , quite why the Norwegians are blamed for this I do n't know , er , and the idea with a Norwegian list , is that you have , you put the problem on the left-hand side if you 're right-handed , and then you would brain-storm the solutions for that on the right-hand side . |
| 2 | If you 've got a mate , a best mate , and she 's on a different house , you 'll write her a note because you hardly ever see her , and if you get caught for that you lose a couple of weeks . |
| 3 | She could have been kidnapped for all I know . |
| 4 | In his spotless home , amongst his large and benevolent family , we were fed enormous meals , shown their exotic collection of shells and sponges , and pumped for all we knew about the outside world . |
| 5 | Columbia 's ‘ X-P High-Speed ’ cylinders ran at 160rpm , and this fact was pushed for all it was worth . |
| 6 | Er , but the interesting , the interesting thing is that they are prepared to pay and yet this obsession this obsession with this ideology that the only way you can get you can go forward in in terms of er placing this this country in any economic status in the way it may have been and er is is to privatisation of V A T. Chairman I look forward to the day when when the very air and this has been said for that we breathe will either be privatised or more important they 'll stick a bloody V A T on it . |
| 7 | Mr Roberts was thanked for all he had done for the Society since its inception . |
| 8 | He may have drowned for all I care . |
| 9 | Your aim should be to see that she does not suffer long periods of loneliness and that she feels so well cared for that she can manage to endure her period of sorrow without too many crutches , until life becomes worth living again . |
| 10 | [ Richard Long 's ] forms , the marks , the accidental decantations of sensitive strolls , do not possess the ‘ imperfection ’ of the natural , they are the archetypes of human sublimation that deliberately establish a certain landscape counterpoint , a kind of megalithic writing , but their elaboration is so cared for that it tends towards a dialectic not of oppositions but of alliances . |
| 11 | And thankfully us independent consultants in training have just been er vindicated for all we 've ever said about them . |
| 12 | So many thousands of differences have been hybridized and bred for that it has become well nigh impossible to find a variation that has not been tried before , but which is new , and can reap a rich reward for the nursery that is first on to the market with it . |