Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [pers pn] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After completing the orchestral score , Reger reworked it for two pianos , but this version for piano duet has more of the original material . |
| 2 | Northamptonshire signed him for four years he shared digs with Colin Milburn and though he progressed less spectacularly than his former Durham colleague , Scott proved an able bowler . |
| 3 | Bob Willis 's Test career came to a sad end at Headingley in 1984 , as Michael Holding hit him for five sixes . |
| 4 | Where Ann wrote it for last year , for my ri |
| 5 | A week later , poor Walsh was involved in another traumatic final over as Pakistan despatched him for 14 to win off the final ball . |
| 6 | Mr Singleton sold them for two pounds each . |
| 7 | I remember , one bloke , mind-reader he was — Steenie booked him for some Variety bill , forget where it was now . |
| 8 | His lips twisted in scorn , and Lissa hated him for that look . |
| 9 | ‘ Oh , dear , you do n't want to hear my stories , ’ he would say when Benny and Eve plagued him for some information . |
| 10 | I think Simon blamed her for this . ’ |
| 11 | When Jamie came in with the food at gloaming , Cameron asked him for another blanket . |
| 12 | Julia loved him for that protectiveness , too , and pulled her hand out of his to let him go . |
| 13 | Judge Lawrence Verney jailed him for seven years foreach of the rapes and four years for each of the indecent assaults , all to run concurrently . |
| 14 | President Zia picked him for prime minister in March 1985 but he was criticised by the opposition for providing a democratic civilian facade to a military dictatorship . |
| 15 | Roman observed her for another few moments . |
| 16 | But ESA delayed it for five years , mainly so that this prestige project could be launched on the European launcher Ariane . |
| 17 | Mr. Gordon had persuaded Sir George Phillips , who was a rather crabby old man , to let them use the Park for their meetings , but , all the same , Judy had the feeling that Mr. Gordon did it for Brown Owl and not at all for the Brownies . |
| 18 | And that Ivor switched it for another , less valuable guinea ? ’ |
| 19 | His occupancy lasted until 1 761 , when he sold it to another local clothier , John Cox , in whose family it remained until 1818 when Elizabeth and William leased it for seven years to the partnership of John Cox and Weston Hicks . |
| 20 | A decade ago , Kung Fu martial arts films were banned by Zambian cinemas after Kaunda attacked them for encouraging violence amongst youths . |
| 21 | One of his wins had qualified him for the National so when he came up for sale at Doncaster , Kempton secured him for 2,000 guineas on behalf of two of his owners who were keen to have a runner in the race . |
| 22 | Marion refilled it for each of them . |
| 23 | Judge William Hannah jailed him for 12 months and disqualified him from driving for six months . |
| 24 | Furthermore , when Joseph explained to his brothers the purposes of God that had been running through the events they had been caught up in , he used terms recalling the promises of Genesis 12 : ‘ … you meant evil against me ; but God meant it for good , to bring it about that many people should be kept alive , as they are today ’ ( 50.20 ; see , too , 45.4–11 ) . |
| 25 | But years later he was able to tell his brothers : ‘ You meant it for evil , but God meant it for good . ’ |
| 26 | They all knew that they had to go on fighting , and be strong for their children , and Mr Edwards commended them for that strength . |
| 27 | Mary Whitehouse denounced it for encouraging in-corridor insurrection , while Russell Knott from the National Association Of Schoolmasters complained that it made the teachers look like twats . |
| 28 | Pearse coached me for two years . |
| 29 | Angela asked us for some help with her wedding day look , she had been growing her old hairstyle out but realised it was n't going to be long enough for her wedding day in September . |
| 30 | At first Alistair took them for other screenplay writers and wedged himself behind the door , at the back of the queue . |