Example sentences of "[noun] and [vb past] [pers pn] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was easier to believe in the impossible when you were tucked up in bed and half-asleep , than when you were walking the wet , comfortless streets , and the bloke you loved was on a bus going in the opposite direction , staring hopelessly out of the window , and wondering how on earth he was ever going to marry you , with no savings and going into the Army next week and a widowed mother who imagined herself an invalid and hated you for taking away her son . |
| 2 | She lashed the class with scorn and ridicule and punished them for the nasty thoughts in her own mind . |
| 3 | Mr Gill spotted the manuscript at a local auction and purchased it for £1,500 , realising its quality but not its rarity or importance ; Sotheby 's Christopher de Hamel found it ‘ extraordinarily interesting ’ . |
| 4 | She opened her eyes and cursed him for disturbing her silent thoughts . |
| 5 | In her resignation letter Gandhi claimed that she was unhappy at the " strange and unilateral decisions " taken by Singh and criticized him for his policies regarding Kashmir and Punjab and for his implementation of the Mandal Commission report [ see below ] . |
| 6 | It was as if the attacking force had drawn back their battering-ram and steadied it for one final assault . |
| 7 | Putting their dinner on the table , Trent reached for the photograph and studied it for the umpteenth time since finding it on Don Roberto 's piano — his mother , and the Colonel as a young man . |
| 8 | The International Herald Tribune of April 28 reported that the US government had for more than two years had evidence that Iraq had diverted food purchased under a US$5,500 million aid programme and exchanged it for Soviet-made arms in Jordan , Turkey and the Soviet Union , including nuclear technology according to a confidential US document dated Oct. 13 , 1989 . |
| 9 | Police arrested them after the tragedy and held them for two days on suspicion of unlawful killing . |
| 10 | It would be interesting to know , however , whether the intensity of the debate at the time served to sear the official mind and closed it for many years afterwards to consideration of an alternative policy for sterling which substantially reduced its international role . |
| 11 | ’ So I waltzed him across the road and put him in a doorway and left him for somebody else to find . |
| 12 | A surly man stepped from a trailer doorway and asked me for money . |
| 13 | She had n't told him much except that she did not like her neighbour Fireman Mosse and blamed him for the death of his wife . |
| 14 | The Judge held that George was responsible for instigating the crime and jailed him for four and a half years . |
| 15 | The bewitchment , if any , had evaporated as soon as those black eyes had extinguished that first interested glance and substituted it for one of rampant dislike . |
| 16 | She held my hand steady to bring the cigarette to the flame and kept it for a few seconds longer than she had to . |
| 17 | She felt an overwhelming urge to lick her lips and fought it for a while till her treacherous tongue simply shot out — only to be retracted slowly , under Lucenzo 's predatory eyes . |
| 18 | She turned on Walter Ash and reviled him for allowing her to hope , and indeed , despite the final outcome , it was his dangerous encouragement of this scheme that prefaced her final disillusion with him . |
| 19 | Erm he wrote to Photo Gallery and asked them for er an exhibition date and they gave him one in nineteen ninety . |
| 20 | presented him with a huge pepper mill and thanked him for his hard work . |
| 21 | I stood at that window and watched you for at least two minutes ! |
| 22 | But he would concede nothing , and in the end I gave him a dry little bow and thanked him for the tea . |
| 23 | The experts have only to accept that the joint sessions also used groups of models kitted-out for each occasion by Rembrandt from his well stocked theatrical wardrobe and used them for painting as well as for drawing , to come to realize that their efforts over the last seventy years have been largely misdirected . |
| 24 | I did ring Agnes away back in January and thanked her for having you ; I was ringing her partly to tell her that , strangely , one of her Hungarian friends from Southampton ( called ) is now the computer expert at Chambers , whose services I 've been using recently to accomplish the final formatting of my questionnaire and piece of sample text . |
| 25 | Jimmy cursed him for a fool and thanked him for standing aside . |
| 26 | So with this going on we found our company would get on better if I had collateral so I wrote to this boy and asked him for a million and put it in a trust fund that I would get after his death , and we that way so okay . |
| 27 | And what we 've done now , and with colleagues from Germany , is to take cores off north west Africa , say about twenty metres down into the sediment , we sample them in the lab here and took the small amounts of sediment and examined them for these long chain compounds and we were extremely excited to see that as we went down this core , back through the last few hundred thousand years , we could see our signal on sea surface temperature oscillating about roughly in the same way that er has been found with other methods of getting at the past history of the climate . |
| 28 | It was a good thing he had finally come to his senses and realized it for himself . |
| 29 | Even in the best hotels they tended to view whisky as a kind of pastis and served it for drinking in the French way . |
| 30 | He rang her just before lunch and recommended us for their pets . |