Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] [pron] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stood in the corridor outside while the priest prepared his wife for death . |
| 2 | The ICI team pinned its hopes for the programme 's success on the untried gas-liquid reactions . |
| 3 | Archie would probably be Wilko 's first choice given his preference for older players , but may settle on the younger version . |
| 4 | Th the one that was so bad , where a man used his back for other people to escape by ? |
| 5 | The small shock of surprise disturbed her judgement for a moment , and the awareness of feeling and looking disconcerted inclined her to resent him , and to look for and find impudence in an approach which would have seemed perfectly excusable in a resident scholar . |
| 6 | But that in no way affected my admiration for what Winston had done , and I am pleased to think that on one or two occasions I have been able to render him some modest service in the way of a reward for this particular display of public courage . |
| 7 | ‘ I hope Luib 's bunch bloodied their nose for them , or things are going to be rather tight around here in a few moments . ’ |