Example sentences of "[pron] [vb pp] for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Detailed studies of particular artefacts direct attention to the varying complexity involved in manufacturing items , many of them designed for specific functions . |
| 2 | I had I saved for three years . |
| 3 | President Arpad Göncz , himself imprisoned for six years for joining the 1956 uprising , had refused to sign the bill and referred it to the Constitutional Court , whose unanimous ruling described the law as " vague , ambiguous and unreliable " . |
| 4 | ‘ Have you tried for many jobs ? ’ she asked . |
| 5 | The Masai were elusive , even when constantly told they had nothing to fear , and consequently the British administration found itself engaged for fifty years in a ceaseless struggle to impose on them some measure of control . |
| 6 | Charles was just getting out of his bath and was about to put on again the same clothes he had taken off beforehand , when suddenly , there at the gates were envoys bringing from Aquitaine a crown and all the royal gear , and everything needed for holy rites ! |
| 7 | Everything changed for both sexes , but it was particularly liberating for women . |
| 8 | The injury is likely to keep him sidelined for two months . |
| 9 | And it also managed to chip some of the woodwork , curious to think that I was offered as war damage compensation five pounds to re-case the piano , you could n't of had it repolished for five pounds , but thinking was working class people should n't have pianos , I 'm certain that was at the back of , of the gentleman whose job it was to evaluate war damage , he certainly raised his eyebrows every time we told him , what either a piece of furniture or crockery or cutlery which had been destroyed had cost and he was so foolish after er the house had been almost flattened as de demand bills as proof of evidence that your figures were correct |
| 10 | He 'd kept it hidden for fifty years . |
| 11 | Is it prepared for large crowds ? |
| 12 | In a related case , four Trinity College Dublin student leaders were cleared of contempt after the society sought to have them jailed for alleged breaches of an earlier injunction restricting distribution of literature on abortion services . |
| 13 | Even then , the problem of seamen finding themselves disqualified for petty reasons remained an aggravating one . |
| 14 | They had two sons ( one of them knighted for military services in 1905 ) and one daughter . |
| 15 | You published last week an account of our ordeal at the hands of burglars who left us barricaded for 37 hours in a tiny bathroom . |