Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [pron] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 've only got her for five years , then she has to go back to the Foundling Hospital . ’ |
| 2 | He had not said that he believed her , had only touched her for that fleeting moment , but she knew what she had felt . |
| 3 | Alison regarded me as though I were a dosser who 'd just importuned her for some spare change . |
| 4 | Similarly if his host says ‘ Come early ’ , having just invited him for eight o'clock , he will interpret ‘ early ’ with respect to the last-mentioned time , rather than to some previously mentioned time . |
| 5 | Well yeah , and yes they 've just asked them for forty grand more have n't they ? |
| 6 | His club , Northants , have already banned him for two games . |
| 7 | ‘ Your comment over dinner that evening , about her acting in cheap soap operas , was quite apt ; I do n't think she 's ever forgiven you for that . ’ |
| 8 | Hast Thou ever seen me for that reason at all dejected ? |
| 9 | They were both free then , and must have still felt something for each other . |
| 10 | She has since packed it for other tours . |
| 11 | More than a hundred victims have now approached him for legal advice and doctors are still seeing new cases six weeks after chryptosporidium was first identified in the Farmoor reservoir . |
| 12 | I mean , and she really known him for six months you know ? |
| 13 | He said , ’ Walker , I 've now known you for four years , and this is the first intelligent thing that you have done . ’ |
| 14 | A spokesman for the I R A said its active service unit had tragically mistaken them for British soldiers . |
| 15 | The Tryons , in return , have frequently joined him for some fishing at Balmoral . |
| 16 | And although I 'm not I enjoyed the piping , I enjoyed But I was not at peace I says I says , you 've even ruined me for this . |
| 17 | Sir Leon extended early parole to many more short-sentence prisoners and virtually abolished it for long-term offenders convicted on drugs , sex , arson , and violence charges . |
| 18 | ‘ Stephen probably saved my life , and certainly saved my sanity because I was one sad lady , ’ says Barbara , referring to her traumatic divorce from Ronnie Knight , who was cleared of a murder charge and then deserted her for another woman . |
| 19 | As Chapters 3 and 4 have indicated , a coercive conservation policy for African cultivators existed alongside a voluntary and financially supported one for white commercial farmers . |
| 20 | He 'd never known anyone for touching things like Lee . |
| 21 | They 've actually asked us for five hundred . |