Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb past] [pers pn] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The interim parliament condemned him for acting contrary to the peace process , and for a gross violation of basic human rights ; Johnson had given an undertaking to Sawyer that he would desist from carrying out executions , after previous killings of rebels and civilians . |
| 2 | If only he knew that looking after his dogs had made her feel that she had just the smallest stake in his life , that it had in some measure comforted her for his absence . |
| 3 | Smith 's wife died in 1825 ; this loss made him for some time anxious to resign , and may help to account for the relative lack of distinction of his period of office . |
| 4 | " Another bloke wrote them for me . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'd have gone there last year but for the shin splints ’ she added , before a note of irritation and frustration became evident as she went on to say ‘ This question haunted me for half of last year . |
| 6 | Woosnam himself , angry at the time of the incident at the 13th , said this week that ‘ only a few people spoilt it for a lot ’ . |
| 7 | The West German Government honoured him for his notable work in promoting friendship between the two countries . |
| 8 | The West German Government honoured him for his notable work in promoting friendship between the two countries . |
| 9 | The other day , some man attacked me for using the phrase ‘ biological clock ’ . |
| 10 | Indeed , the fact that he did not refer her to a different psychiatrist convinced me for a long time that I had misconstrued the situation . |
| 11 | Of course , the old man asked me for my reasons . |
| 12 | At least he would know then about Mark , realise that at least one person in this world knew him for what he really was . |
| 13 | The boy was in Nunnery Lane when another youth asked him for a ride on the bike and never returned . |
| 14 | Medieval law was indeed profoundly conservative , and most medieval vassals took it for granted that the right of resistance was a law which could not be abrogated . |
| 15 | Well he 's saying that that bloke mistook him for somebody else then ? |
| 16 | Muslim parents favoured it for their daughters because men were barred the premises . |
| 17 | Lord John had hoped that his friend would accompany him , but he sensed how much Manvell despised him for so easily surrendering to Sharpe 's threat . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He has just lost his farm — in a sale forced on him by the Kenya Government ( ‘ Kenyatta 's Chief Bodyguard wanted it for himself ’ ) . |
| 20 | I 'm not convinced Mother intended it for me . ’ |
| 21 | Further , those who requested such facilities wanted them for others — those who had been ‘ mollycoddled ’ by their parents and by their teachers in special schools — rather than for themselves . |
| 22 | I happened to let slip how much James gave me for it . |
| 23 | The Chinese , who used ivory for elaborately carved handles and vessels as early as the Shang dynasty and in later times used it for a wide variety of personal items such as brush pots , wrist-rests , boxes , seals , snuff boxes and fans , had increasingly to import the material as the elephant herds in the southern provinces diminished . |
| 24 | Election 1992 : ‘ Red ’ stumped as Tory ladies hit him for six |
| 25 | But it was not so long ago that many leading Tories faulted it for being mismanaged , diffused , uncertain , failing to set the agenda ; in a word , bad . |
| 26 | It was always cold on Monaghan Day , the traditional day poor farmers sold their winter stock and the rich farmers bought them for fattening . |
| 27 | When eventually its report , Lead and Health , was published in 1980 , various environmental groups damned it for being too meek . |
| 28 | But many biologists took it for granted that the main purpose of evolutionism was to elucidate the precise course of life 's development from its earliest origins . |
| 29 | His enemies among the ancient geographers attacked him for what he reported about the mysterious North — Great Britain , Jutland , and whatever Thule was . |
| 30 | So much so that in America the Black Panthers studied it for tips on guerrilla tactics ! |