Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [pers pn] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 61 | The Head of Department replied that they were used mainly for the Sixth Form , for example , the History of Art' … my predecessor bought them for departmental use , but my belief is that kids should be actively involved in creative work , not passively looking at film — and we have difficulty with blackout , too'. ( verified note of meeting ) |
| 62 | The peregrine chased it for six miles , and even then the pigeon did not give in . |
| 63 | The whole field left me for dead . |
| 64 | Sister Eillen Regan , from the board of education of the Roman Catholic archdiocese of San Francisco , says the board shunned it for two reasons : ‘ It treats nuclear war as survivable and implies nuclear war is a political option ’ . |
| 65 | Deputy Judge Harold Hewitt jailed them for eight years each . |
| 66 | ‘ You and your bloody mates fingered me for those three other burglaries . |
| 67 | Magistrates bailed him for eight weeks on conditions which included not venturing out alone from the Leahurst residential home for the mentally disturbed . |
| 68 | The trust ran it for twenty years as something like the proprietors ' colonies of the previous century , but in 1752 it became a royal colony . |
| 69 | Akram swept him for four between the two fielders in front of the grandstand . |
| 70 | This is almost all that can be gleaned from broadly contemporary written sources about the Danish monarchy between c.950 and the accession c.987 of Swegen Forkbeard , who conquered England in 1013 , and whose son Cnut ruled it for nineteen years . |
| 71 | For Prothero is the demon-king of the Poundian pantomime , ever since Pound cast him for this role by printing , at the end of his essay on De Gourmont — originally in the Little Review , then in Instigations ( 1920 ) — the letter which Prothero wrote him in October 1914 : |
| 72 | He is a central defender I think and the Blades bought him for 350,000 from Palace . |
| 73 | The Yanks had in fact had them for some months in the Scullery apartment . |