Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [pers pn] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much as their fans loved them for all their quirks , the aesthetics and comfort of a ground did not cross the mind of many football directors . |
| 2 | No eyes beheld them for any of its windows ; no one beat a carpet or scraped a cauldron or swilled out their slops . |
| 3 | And then he gave order that all the windows of the towers which looked in upon the town should be closed up , that the Christians might not see what the Moors did in their houses ; and the Moors thanked him for this greatly . |
| 4 | Fukase 's series RAVENS preoccupied him for ten years , beginning with a chance photograph of a flock of crows on his native Hokkaido in 1975 and culminating in the publication of 62 photographs in 1986 . |
| 5 | Selahattin Simsek said that during his interrogation , police officers tortured him for 23 consecutive days , but he confessed to nothing more than ‘ a certain sympathy ’ for the PKK . |
| 6 | He says they stopped selling replica handguns because he suspected that some of his customers wanted them for possible criminal reasons . |
| 7 | Livingston , who has vowed to clear his name after British athletics chiefs banned him for four years for drugs cheating , said : ‘ I am being imprisoned for something I have n't done . |
| 8 | Election 1992 : ‘ Red ’ stumped as Tory ladies hit him for six |
| 9 | I could n't even manage the children — friends took them for odd days . |
| 10 | Police followed him for six miles on the A1 near Dishforth at speeds of up to 96mph through heavy rain . |
| 11 | ‘ You and your bloody mates fingered me for those three other burglaries . |
| 12 | Magistrates bailed him for eight weeks on conditions which included not venturing out alone from the Leahurst residential home for the mentally disturbed . |