Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [verb] [pers pn] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | A reply came thanking us for our letter and saying it is receiving attention . |
| 2 | His eyes seemed to study her for a moment . |
| 3 | Tammuz Malamute abused the body Ewan had bequeathed him for years , telling himself he 'd buried the past , until the day he woke up and a voice inside reminded him that Ari Famber was fourteen years old . |
| 4 | Samson had clouted her for burning it — the beginning of a long bad day . |
| 5 | In that case the buyer of a new Nissan car had had it for less than three weeks and had made two or three short journeys in it for the purpose of trying it out , before the engine seized up because of a latent manufacturing fault . |
| 6 | My agent had borrowed it for me from a cousin who had gone to New York for six months . |
| 7 | Some man at the college had arranged it for her … she more or less admitted she 'd worked on him . ’ |
| 8 | It was very much a revenge match for White — Spijkers had beaten him for a bronze in the Seoul Olympics , though then White was injured . |
| 9 | In June 1548 , when the Scots had suffered it for four years , lord Methven reported to Mary of Guise the results of his inquiries as to why the Englishmen were favoured . |
| 10 | However , for a number of these symptoms , more people in residential homes had had them for a year or more : the proportions were 31 per cent against 20 per cent for drowsiness , 22 per cent against 14 per cent for dizziness , 19 per cent against 11 per cent for loss of appetite and 4 per cent against one per cent for bedsores . |
| 11 | First climbed in 1954 , this classic test-piece had inspired me for decades . |
| 12 | And MacLane wanted to wallpaper me for the job . |
| 13 | She had not merely been a housekeeper but her qualities of efficiency , cheerfulness and gastronomic expertise seemed to fit her for the task of looking after this unusual pair . |
| 14 | When the council sought to evict him for non-payment of the extra rent he pleaded in defence that the resolution was invalid . |
| 15 | Goldwyn threatened to sue him for a million dollars , but Mayer convinced him that such a court case would cast a dim light on the entire industry . |
| 16 | If , on the other hand , your boss kept chasing you for ideas and generally putting the pressure on you until he got ideas that he considered satisfactory , then , providing you found the pressure ‘ nasty ’ and its cessation ‘ nice ’ , behaviour of putting forward ideas would also have been reinforced . |
| 17 | Since only two of the churches , apart from St. Patrick 's , are big enough to hold 400 people , a proposal was put to the Congregational Church to host the service some time in 1993 and the Church of Scotland offered to consider it for 1994 . |
| 18 | She saw him pick up the sweater her parents had bought her for her birthday , then carelessly throw it to one side . |
| 19 | The white elephant had finally emerged from the confusion behind which its promoters had concealed it for so many years . |
| 20 | Shannon had met him for the first time when he 'd arrived to film the pilot episode , and her dislike for the golden Adonis had been instant . |
| 21 | Roirbak had mistaken her for another boy : a skinny , awkward creature , but pretty in her own way , he conceded . |
| 22 | The incident with the muntjac doe had distracted him for a while but gradually the sense of exultation in his deeds of the previous evening returned and blotted everything else from his mind . |
| 23 | The girl continued shooting him for ten , maybe fifteen seconds . |
| 24 | Nothing in our four days on the felucca with this sullen boy had prepared us for this , as nothing could have prepared him for that afternoon in Asyut . |
| 25 | Fate had parted them for ever , but she would never know any other man in the way she had known Tyler . |
| 26 | I felt sure Miss Havisham had chosen us for each other . |
| 27 | Joshua Morris had not invited him to break bread in Clungunford , Clunbury , Clunton or Clun , but Ralph Grunte had booked him for his Warwickshire Tories ' annual dinner and dance . |
| 28 | Mr Browning wrote to thank her for her diligence and in doing so confirmed what she had been certain of , that Miss Henrietta had died . |
| 29 | Palottino had no answer to that , any more than Zen himself , though the question had tormented him for the whole drive back to Perugia . |
| 30 | He filled the kettle and set it on the hob , then went through to the front room , closed the shutters , and tried radioing on the frequency Caspar had given him for the US Embassy in Belpan City . |