Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [verb] [pers pn] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | My mother took pity on him and agreed to keep him for as long as she could . |
| 2 | The President had also apparently abandoned his aim of holding the first round of legislative elections on Oct. 25 [ see p. 39086 ] , and agreed to reschedule them for late November ( with a number of opposition parties still calling for a further postponement ) . |
| 3 | He was quite aware of her marital designs on him , but she was very much part of the life which he had rejected , even if she refused to recognise that fact , and tried to reclaim him for it . |
| 4 | Guido took a mouthful of his Cynar and seemed to savour it for a moment . |
| 5 | Vass spread his long fingers over the chair arms and seemed to contemplate them for a moment . |
| 6 | Alex stomped by and declined to join them for an early morning cocktail . |
| 7 | ( He had in fact put on weight while resting after Alfredo Alfredo , and needed to lose it for the role anyway . |
| 8 | The priest whom she eventually accosted took one look at her , an ill-proportioned , arrogant child with cheap clips in her gaudy hair , and started grilling her for an address . |
| 9 | You 'd passed judgement on my morals and decided to punish me for something you could only have had the vaguest idea about . |
| 10 | The police took one look at him and decided to leave him for later . |
| 11 | They had enough material for a book and decided to offer it for publication under the title Møn : The Island of Pure Friendship . |
| 12 | Frankie appeared as I was filling the kettle and offered to do it for me . |
| 13 | After a chase on foot of over three miles he had finally run out of puff and offered to fight me for the goods . |
| 14 | The decision came after a special tribunal in Peshawar had found Gilani guilty on April 24 of the misappropriation of public funds , and had disqualified him for seven years from a seat in the National Assembly . |
| 15 | In fact , Dustin was not unknown to Nichols , who had seen him in Journey of the Fifth Horse and had auditioned him for the Broadway musical The Apple Tree . |
| 16 | When he had taken up with Jessica he had recognised her as a wild Ulster girl , and had respected her for it . |
| 17 | The Guardian of Jan. 9 , for example , reported that Chinese Communist Party ( CCP ) documents circulated internally in late December had been critical of Gorbachev and had blamed him for the " subversion " of socialism in Eastern Europe . |
| 18 | And yet they were writing about the same place , and both of them knew it intimately , and had known it for years . |
| 19 | Palaeontologists almost universally denied both these implications of the molecular research and continued denying them for almost 15 years . |
| 20 | Julie Warburton , 21 , said Green had her he was in love with her , and added : ‘ He also said he wanted to divorce his wife and wanted to leave her for me . ’ |
| 21 | She let him know also that she was a virgin and wanted to save it for someone special . |
| 22 | He was pleased with the result and wanted to use it for something for himself and he adapted it for designing colour patterns for Sandra to knit on her machine . |
| 23 | When she 'd gone , Ellie glanced at Feargal and wanted to smack him for his slow , knowing smile . |
| 24 | Applicants were given cash grants , usually no more than £75 , and trusted to use it for the purpose they had proposed - such as buying a bicycle to do a newspaper round , obtaining equipment for a camping trip , or acquiring the wherewithal to learn a new skill or a sport . |
| 25 | In the course of a beauty parade , Price Waterhouse took the audit from Coopers & Lybrand , but agreed to do it for 14% less . |