Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [noun] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wanted the sugar and rather than wait for the waiter to return or ask this boy to get it , I asked Harvey for the sugar . |
| 2 | Erm , I met Mr for the first time in the airport lounge at , erm er , er , Kennedy Airport erm , we discussed at great length and had a very interesting discussion erm , er , Pearsons erm , he accepted er , the job and h I , he has no obligation to me whatsoever and he is one of the er , members of the er , remuneration committee , and I actually take offence at what you 're saying . |
| 3 | That 's what I got prison for the last time . |
| 4 | ‘ When I beat Nick for the Barcelona Open it gave me a three-year exemption on the tour but it turned out to be a £90,000 exemption — that 's what it cost me to keep playing until I lost it in 1991 . ’ |
| 5 | Late that afternoon we made a perfect three-point landing at the RCAF airstrip in Whitehorse , capital of the Yukon Territory , where I found shelter for the night in a bare but adequate room at the Whitehorse Hotel . |
| 6 | This entry , entitled Gravesend Quotes , has appeared since I installed Quote For The Day , so it 's a safe bet that it 's storing information for that program . |
| 7 | I admired George for the care and attention he gave to Lennie . |
| 8 | I tipped Arsenal for the championship at the start of the season and that 's the measure of respect I have for them because they are so resolute . |
| 9 | I thanked God for the small wrist compass that I wore as a matter of habit whenever I set out in a boat . |
| 10 | I had heard Jean-Claude say that everything was cheap there , and I needed things for the attic . |
| 11 | I think that evening I felt instinct for the first time — what not to do and what to do . |
| 12 | ‘ I saw Siena for the first time in Autumn , ’ said Tom Tedder , with a catch in his voice . |
| 13 | He immediately took me up the tower , and — stepping out onto the balcony — I saw Oxford for the first time . |
| 14 | When I saw Jekub for the first time I thought , OK , this is what he used . ’ |
| 15 | I saw Begampur for the first time on a hot evening in early May . |
| 16 | I think I sort of , won a friend because I 'm sure that day that we got the groceries and I bought bones for the dogs did n't I ? |
| 17 | Yes er that 's been the essence of what I 've wanted is er I 've , I 've had to have what I 've wanted by hook or by crook , and I do n't mean crook in a bad sense , I mean one way or another , you know what I mean and er I did job for the casters , same as they did jobs for me , you know and that 's how I 've gone through life , that is Michael . |
| 18 | This emerges in the form of a dreary Swedish mantra along the lines of ‘ He tried to beat mee , but I beat heem , and so I won Weembledon for the first time . ’ |
| 19 | It is merely that they wish to question me , for I had responsibility for the food last night . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's a two-way thing : I had those feelings long before I wrote drafts for the script , but the process of writing and research inflamed them . |
| 21 | The valleys of the choked and overflowing streams were speedily transformed into long stretches of bog , impassable except by a few well-defined tracks , which became marks for the enemy 's artillery . |
| 22 | which became bywords for the desecration of the countryside . |
| 23 | Brother Mark is no outsider to Continental markets , having done his MBA at Insead , the business school at Fontainebleu , which trained executives for the Single Market . |
| 24 | Zuwaya preferred not to employ one another but to enter into partnerships of a kind which created income for the wealthier and capital for the poorer man . |
| 25 | We were shown the great marble slab covering Arthur 's coffin and the chalice well which provided water for the brothers . |
| 26 | The individual being insufficient for the expression of these values , they might be extended in vicarious forms such as footservants who had nothing to do but to display their own superfluity , or pets , which provided surfaces for the further display of luxury . |
| 27 | The Denberies or Denes , were lands in the Weald which provided pannage for the herds of swine . |
| 28 | He became the first Earl of Iveagh , and set up the Guinness and Iveagh Trusts which provided homes for the poor in Dublin and London , and made substantial contributions to Trinity College and Dublin hospitals . |
| 29 | The Inter-Andean Depression of Ecuador is controlled by two terrane boundaries ( sutures ) , the Cainozoic reactivation of which provided channelways for the double chain of volcanic cordilleras , which form a caldera-graben . |
| 30 | The economy continued to suffer , however , from persistent inflation , balance-of-payments and budget deficits , and a shortage of foreign exchange reserves , the management of which posed problems for the incoming National Front government . |