Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [pron] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Your wife has left you for a continuous period of two years . |
| 32 | I feel so comfortable with your mother and the whole time here has changed me for the better . ’ |
| 33 | And erm I got down on my hands and knees I must 've done it for an hour |
| 34 | ‘ I 'd heard him for a bit by then . |
| 35 | He 'd picked up some cream that they 'd given me for a skin rash , stuck it under my blindfold and said , in a curious high-pitched waver , ‘ Champignons ? ’ |
| 36 | Yvonne Paul whose The Glamour Game ( W H Allen , £2.95 ) tells all about the Glamour Biz sent me in the blouse off her back , drenched in exotic perfume , as a ‘ thank-you ’ after I 'd interviewed her for the Daily Mail and mentioned how much I liked her get-up . |
| 37 | He went up , and it 's first time he 'd seen her for a while and she said something about , oh he was supposed to have something but he got to hear this well it 's got nothing to do with all the others . |
| 38 | Her father 's expression was the warmest she 'd seen it for a long time . |
| 39 | Once a femur or a forearm would have played a pure note if you 'd used one for a pipe , but the pieces would whistle harsh and offkey now from the holes bored into them by the efficient mandibles of her companions in the vertical grave , the cenote where they placed her after the battle , during the truce . |
| 40 | Even though we 'd sold it for a ridiculously low . |
| 41 | The Quix supermarket had refused the box because they 'd ha although they 'd had it for a cert for quite a long time during the miner 's strike I think . |
| 42 | Juliet wondered if he 'd re-stocked it for the occasion . |
| 43 | Instinctively , I dipped my fingers in the holy water and crossed myself , remembering the Catholic aunt in South Armagh who 'd raised me for a while as a child and had anguished over my black little Protestant soul . |
| 44 | Perhaps if I 'd entered him for the Champion Hurdle , he might have sold . |
| 45 | But they 'd asked me for an epitaph not an editorial and , in any case , I 'd already got the clear impression that most of these unaccustomed mourners could recognise a tolling bell when they heard it , but that like so many of the other warnings that had been laid on them over the years by teachers , social workers and magistrates , they had simply decided that any other way of life was simply too dull , too straight , even to be contemplated . |
| 46 | She 'd spotted him for the first time three weekends ago when she 'd walked out on to the nightclub stage to perform her warm-up spot for the star turn of the evening . |
| 47 | Oh god I thought I 'd lost it for a minute |
| 48 | She would have given anything for a bath , but that was impossible . |
| 49 | Right at this moment she would have given anything for a sight of Shirley and endured her fussing with pleasure . |
| 50 | She would have given anything for a glimpse of the moon that had been shining when she was here before , but it was not there , and as the knocking gathered strength she realised she would have to go down . |
| 51 | ‘ I could have forgiven him for the debts he piled up , but the lies , having another woman — I can never forgive that , ’ Jean says . |
| 52 | But he 'd sat there listening , with that sneering smile of his , drinking Ban 's claret as if he was doing the Braithwaites a great favour , while Ben , who 'd had his share of claret too , lamented the fall of the Whig government , which might have done something for the manufacturing classes , and the election of the land-owning Tories , that bunch of country squires like the Larks , who would not . |
| 53 | ‘ You must have done it for a good reason . |
| 54 | I would have done it for a young white guy if he was from my club and I realised that he did not have enough money to play the Tour . " |
| 55 | ‘ I 'd only have done it for the money , ’ she admits , ‘ It was a bit of a mish-mash . ’ |
| 56 | As for the Normandy campaign , I would n't have missed it for the world . |
| 57 | He would n't have missed it for the world . ’ |
| 58 | ‘ I would n't have missed it for the world ’ , smiled Christy . |
| 59 | Nothing in his IBM Corp background could have prepared him for the kind of speech he gave — in fact had to give , if Taligent is to be seen as the answer to the world 's ills . |
| 60 | Nothing however could have prepared him for the drama to come . |