Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [vb past] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Personally I longed for human society and for exercise ( a good long tramp , for example ) , but no doubt Odilo had his reasons . |
| 2 | So she opted for desperate measures to get him to change his image . |
| 3 | The plan was to look back at intervals after leaving camp to see how long it took for various features of the Land Rover to disappear , so that I would know how much longer there was to walk when they reappeared in the evening . |
| 4 | Eventually she plumped for Persian help , but at a time ( 412 ) when her potential critics inside the league were less effective ( cp. p. 97 on Corinth ) . |
| 5 | Now she asked for white wine in her charged voice . |
| 6 | It had hardly seemed possible before : but now he knew for sure . |
| 7 | ‘ Following the elections there has been less high profile security presence in the area , ’ he said , adding that some time ago he asked for extra security measures for the town . |
| 8 | Then she added for good measure , ‘ I do n't know what you want to talk to me about , do I ? ’ |
| 9 | It was then he knew for certain that the oriental he had just shot was not the one from whom he had wanted to exact retribution for injuring Pam — because at the other end of the corridor he found himself looking into the glittering black eyes of his hated enemy , Angel One . |
| 10 | If sometimes , when I canvassed for other people at elections , addressed envelopes , drafted manifestos , I felt like an alcoholic sneaking a secret drink , this was a purely subjective analogy . |
| 11 | Yet nobody knew for certain who these moderates ( sometimes called ‘ pragmatists ’ ) were ; or , if they existed , how much influence they had . |
| 12 | Yet she knew for certain that if she never saw him again she would never forget him . |
| 13 | In 1912 she was elected as a Labour councillor in the London borough of Kensington , where she pressed for public provision of baby clinics , school meals , improved council housing , employment schemes , and prohibition of sweated labour . |
| 14 | When the war began , he made an overland journey across Africa to get a ship back to England , where he volunteered for military service . |