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 | The West German Government honoured him for his notable work in promoting friendship between the two countries . |
| 3 | The West German Government honoured him for his notable work in promoting friendship between the two countries . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Of course , the old man asked me for my reasons . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Muslim parents favoured it for their daughters because men were barred the premises . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He has just lost his farm — in a sale forced on him by the Kenya Government ( ‘ Kenyatta 's Chief Bodyguard wanted it for himself ’ ) . |
| 10 | I 'm not convinced Mother intended it for me . ’ |
| 11 | Election 1992 : ‘ Red ’ stumped as Tory ladies hit him for six |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It was always cold on Monaghan Day , the traditional day poor farmers sold their winter stock and the rich farmers bought them for fattening . |
| 14 | When eventually its report , Lead and Health , was published in 1980 , various environmental groups damned it for being too meek . |
| 15 | His enemies among the ancient geographers attacked him for what he reported about the mysterious North — Great Britain , Jutland , and whatever Thule was . |
| 16 | So much so that in America the Black Panthers studied it for tips on guerrilla tactics ! |
| 17 | With rare exceptions the classical economists took it for granted that a reduction in the money-wage rate would be translated into the all important reduction in the real-wage rate which was required by marginal productivity theory . |
| 18 | If the Hapsburgs occupied Paris and a couple of Austrian soldiers asked you for information about a Frenchman , would you tell them ? ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ I have discovered that the black people I have been working with in the inner cities proposed me for the award . |
| 21 | The church found it hard to enforce chastity within marriage when a pagan man took it for granted that he had the right to sleep with his slavegirls . |
| 22 | The north American Indians hunted it for food and used the feather to decorate their headdresses , but the Mexican Aztecs were responsible for domesticating it . |
| 23 | Red Indians used it for nappies , and J&J might just follow in their tracks — encouraging us to flush the bog down the bog , as it were ? |
| 24 | She had never seen him with his hair cut short , and the absence of the red-blond locks made him for a moment unrecognisable . |
| 25 | Trade bidding edged out the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine in the conquest for the beautifully drawn ‘ Saint Liborious before the Virgin and Child ’ listed initially in the catalogue as Neapolitan school , later attributed in a saleroom notice to Giovanni Odazzi ; estimated at £1–2,000 , an American dealer won it for £4,500 ( $7,011 ) . |
| 26 | ‘ You and your bloody mates fingered me for those three other burglaries . |
| 27 | A pale blue light puzzled him for a moment , until he realised that it was the Calor gas stove in the galley . |
| 28 | Dolphins have been hunted in the Black Sea since the late nineteenth century , when Russian fishermen sought them for their meat and oil . |
| 29 | Your lust for her knew no bounds and when this loyal woman spurned you for her husband of twenty years you wreaked a terrible revenge ! ’ |
| 30 | Such a nice young American brought them for us . |