Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [pers pn] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Selahattin Simsek said that during his interrogation , police officers tortured him for 23 consecutive days , but he confessed to nothing more than ‘ a certain sympathy ’ for the PKK . |
| 32 | My friend bought it for two hundred pounds second-hand . |
| 33 | Mr. Gordon had persuaded Sir George Phillips , who was a rather crabby old man , to let them use the Park for their meetings , but , all the same , Judy had the feeling that Mr. Gordon did it for Brown Owl and not at all for the Brownies . |
| 34 | Guilt besieged him for many years . |
| 35 | Terry Melchett , the supermarket manager , whose wife left him for another woman , gave me a hard shove in the small of the back . |
| 36 | He says they stopped selling replica handguns because he suspected that some of his customers wanted them for possible criminal reasons . |
| 37 | And that Ivor switched it for another , less valuable guinea ? ’ |
| 38 | His occupancy lasted until 1 761 , when he sold it to another local clothier , John Cox , in whose family it remained until 1818 when Elizabeth and William leased it for seven years to the partnership of John Cox and Weston Hicks . |
| 39 | A decade ago , Kung Fu martial arts films were banned by Zambian cinemas after Kaunda attacked them for encouraging violence amongst youths . |
| 40 | When the Central Authority carpeted him for this , he stated that he had done it both to meet statutory obligations and to make faster progress on rural electrification than agreed . |
| 41 | One of his wins had qualified him for the National so when he came up for sale at Doncaster , Kempton secured him for 2,000 guineas on behalf of two of his owners who were keen to have a runner in the race . |
| 42 | Marion refilled it for each of them . |
| 43 | Most people joined it for humanitarian reasons but it was an outlet for all kinds of disgust . |
| 44 | She says that they were desperate for food , and the pike fed them for two days . |
| 45 | Judge William Hannah jailed him for 12 months and disqualified him from driving for six months . |
| 46 | The Radio Times stressed that Ghostwatch with Mike Parkinson on Saturday was a drama yet people took it for real . |
| 47 | Furthermore , when Joseph explained to his brothers the purposes of God that had been running through the events they had been caught up in , he used terms recalling the promises of Genesis 12 : ‘ … you meant evil against me ; but God meant it for good , to bring it about that many people should be kept alive , as they are today ’ ( 50.20 ; see , too , 45.4–11 ) . |
| 48 | But years later he was able to tell his brothers : ‘ You meant it for evil , but God meant it for good . ’ |
| 49 | Livingston , who has vowed to clear his name after British athletics chiefs banned him for four years for drugs cheating , said : ‘ I am being imprisoned for something I have n't done . |
| 50 | They all knew that they had to go on fighting , and be strong for their children , and Mr Edwards commended them for that strength . |
| 51 | But Mum knew them for crafty rogues and she had n't forgotten the coal . |
| 52 | Mary Whitehouse denounced it for encouraging in-corridor insurrection , while Russell Knott from the National Association Of Schoolmasters complained that it made the teachers look like twats . |
| 53 | The staff and right leg propelled me for forty yards until the leg gave way and the injured one , without a thought , took the strain and I ended up on my hands and knees ranting and raving . |
| 54 | Last year the Home Secretary reappointed him for five years : the first of the BBC 's 17 chairmen since incorporation in 1927 to receive a second full term . |
| 55 | Election 1992 : ‘ Red ’ stumped as Tory ladies hit him for six |
| 56 | I could n't even manage the children — friends took them for odd days . |
| 57 | Pearse coached me for two years . |
| 58 | Angela asked us for some help with her wedding day look , she had been growing her old hairstyle out but realised it was n't going to be long enough for her wedding day in September . |
| 59 | Police followed him for six miles on the A1 near Dishforth at speeds of up to 96mph through heavy rain . |
| 60 | At first Alistair took them for other screenplay writers and wedged himself behind the door , at the back of the queue . |