Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [noun prp] 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 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 4 | I admired George for the care and attention he gave to Lennie . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I thanked God for the small wrist compass that I wore as a matter of habit whenever I set out in a boat . |
| 7 | ‘ I saw Siena for the first time in Autumn , ’ said Tom Tedder , with a catch in his voice . |
| 8 | He immediately took me up the tower , and — stepping out onto the balcony — I saw Oxford for the first time . |
| 9 | When I saw Jekub for the first time I thought , OK , this is what he used . ’ |
| 10 | I saw Begampur for the first time on a hot evening in early May . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | At the time when Jesus was born , Herod the Great was the ‘ puppet king ’ who ruled Palestine for the Romans . |
| 13 | In her insistent way she asked Jane for the loan of a field in which to hold a charity fair . |
| 14 | She hated Nora for the double betrayal and swore that she would never forgive her . |
| 15 | That view is inevitably contested by Ram Kishen , 73 , a socialist who won Bharatpur for the opposition in 1977 , and who is a contender along with Miss Kaur for selection as candidate this year . |
| 16 | Nigel Jones , who won Cheltenham for the Liberal Democrats has been named front bench spokesman on housing and local government . |
| 17 | Just before she left England for the travels during which she acquired this souvenir , Johnson tore up all her letters in his anger at her marriage with the Italian musician Gabriele Piozzi . |
| 18 | Luton are likely to insist on recouping the £135,000 they paid Leeds for the veteran midfielder , even though Kamara turned 35 on Christmas Day . |
| 19 | Defying Saudi Arabia 's ban on political demonstrations during the haj , Iranian pilgrims held a rally outside Mecca in which they denounced America for the catastrophes facing the Islamic world . |
| 20 | He asked Sarah for the photo and he was doing his usual stuff , you know , hand on heart . |
| 21 | Now in January 1979 , as he fled Teheran for the second time in his life , the Shah had intended to fly on to America after just a few day in Egypt . |
| 22 | Goal machine Martin McGaughey , even deadlier than Cowan at his Linfield peak , had a chance to decide for himself when he faced Smith for the first time last week . |
| 23 | Berry dismisses criticism of climbs of this kind , made recently by Reinhiold Messner among others : ‘ It 's all very well for him to say this kind of thing , but when he climbed Everest for the first time without oxygen and on other occasions , he was quite happy to make use of heavyweight-style expeditions . |
| 24 | He thanked God for the sun , already surprisingly warm on their backs . |
| 25 | Now he is saying that he killed Caesar for his greater love of Rome than for Caesar ie he killed Caesar for the ‘ general good ’ . |
| 26 | Brutus had said that he killed Caesar for the general good but Antony is now saying that he did n't know why they killed him , otherwise he saying that it was n't for the general good . |
| 27 | He blamed France for the delay , which he said was caused by Paris 's continuing insistence that Strasbourg should be confirmed as the permanent site of the EC Parliament 's plenary sessions . |
| 28 | But he blamed Graveney for the furore : ‘ It was not the ICC who put him in this position but Tom himself . |
| 29 | In the brief civil war that followed he took Worcester for the rebels in January 1322 , but was captured by the king 's forces at Tutbury , Derbyshire , on 11 March . |
| 30 | Cray Research Inc , Eagan , Minnesota hopes that flattery will get it everywhere in Japan , and so it chose Tokyo for the worldwide launch of a range of new models in its C90 line to replace the existing Y-MP machines . |