Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [pers pn] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Escobar announced last month that he was declaring war on the state and the government has since blamed him for a series of bomb blasts in Bogota and other cities which have killed more than 40 people . |
| 2 | This had covered the blotter so that he had really only seen it for a short time . |
| 3 | Clutterbuck ceased to work the mill during the latter half of the 1840s , for by 1847 it had been leased to a paper-maker , Frederick Wiggins , who apparently only operated it for a few years . |
| 4 | Geoff Butterwick , public transport manager for Suffolk County Council , said : ‘ We 've only had it for a few weeks but it 's already proving useful and I 'm sure it will make life a lot easier . |
| 5 | She laughed silently at herself ; she had only known him for a few hours , and here she was , assessing his character as if he were an old and true friend . |
| 6 | It 's ridiculous — I 've only known him for a few weeks . |
| 7 | ‘ You 've only known him for a few months ! ’ |
| 8 | Hurley had not forgiven him for the loss of Syrian George , and he was still under heavy pressure from Washington to show results , but in general Coleman made sure they got along for the sake of his back-channel reports to MC/10 Control . |
| 9 | His mother had not joined them for the meal , bowing in this regard to the T'ang 's wishes . |
| 10 | ( There is a constant flow of Micks visiting our affiliated Royal Navy ship , the destroyer HMS Boxer ; some of Support Company had just joined her for a Channel cruise . ) |
| 11 | If you 've just joined us for the eight o'clock news , as many people do , welcome . |
| 12 | Well , I 've got , if you you just bear with me a moment , I still have one foot dragging in H one , but I thought we 'd got to the stage where in order to try and clarify thinking on the matter we ought to progress onto H two , erm , that just let me reveal the thinking , erm that , before I do that can I just say in terms of mechanics those of you who have just joined us for the first time , could you turn your name boards round so I can see them , thank you , and when you want to come in the normal practice is to put your name board on end , so it will attract our attention . |
| 13 | I assumed he 'd just picked you for the resemblance . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Then since you accept what I say , madam — ’ interposed the cardinal with a sense of timing that suggested the protector had not nominated him for the task solely on account of his venerability ‘ — might I urge you to give the prince into my custody ! ’ |
| 15 | Dad 's a , dad 's just nominated you for the big in the campus . |
| 16 | I have just done it for the only time in the 23,400,000 minutes of my life so far , and I doubt if I 'll do it again , so call these odds one in 25 million . |
| 17 | Life had not prepared him for the task , and it soon became clear that he lacked the natural shrewdness and strength of character that a Gdansk plumber was to show the Polish bosses three years later . |
| 18 | Your father , and Elizabeth and the others , are very worried about you , because you have not visited them for a long time . |
| 19 | He had not seen her for a while and he was pretty sure she had committed suicide . |
| 20 | she kept in touch with them for some time but er , I 've not seen her for a year so , I would n't know . |
| 21 | She had not seen him for a month . |
| 22 | She had not seen him for an hour or more , he had been here earlier , had he left in a fit of boredom , was he sulking in |
| 23 | ‘ She 's just noticed she 's not had it for a week or so . ’ |
| 24 | The education process which the 1970s building surveyor had undergone in the fifties and early sixties had not equipped him for a meaningful and identifiable role in the profession of the seventies . |
| 25 | At least he was spared the knowledge that he 'd given the doge 's ring to a heartless little bitch who 'd just taken him for a ride . ’ |
| 26 | He has just photographed her for the latest Dolce e Gabbana campaign in New York . |
| 27 | Er I think they genuinely believe their case , it 's not a case that I believe , but I I 've always genuinely respected them for the case they take . |
| 28 | The room , the cottage , Ryan , her lack of confidence , all faded ; there was only now , this one moment in time , and nothing in her life had ever prepared her for the feelings she experienced . |
| 29 | His background hardly prepared him for a life of elegant luxury as a film star or obedience to the star system . |
| 30 | Um , now may be , according to Burstow , this is a sort of self-serving thing as well because it 's a way of saying , if you just say that that say your father sexually abused you for no good reason , that 's a very frightening thing to say . |