Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun] [prep] [pers pn] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were the grateful beneficiaries of the largesse of Benjamin 's uncle , the great Wolsey , who lavished rewards on us for resolving , only a few months earlier , the sinister White Rose murders . |
| 2 | Work on a new constitution began shortly after the June 1990 elections , but political differences within the parliamentary drafting commission delayed consideration of it for several months . |
| 3 | He returned to Lebanon in 1958 , shortly after newly elected President Fuad Chahab dropped charges against him for ‘ lack of undisputed evidence . ’ |
| 4 | On Nov. 24 the Indian government accepted the appointment of Chakra Bastola as Nepali ambassador to India after the Bihar state government dropped charges against him for receipt of Rs3,000,000 claimed to have been on board a Royal Nepal Airlines flight which was hijacked to Forbesganj in June 1971 . |
| 5 | The bantering tone remained in Surere 's voice but he added edge to it for the last word or two . |
| 6 | Anne herself found that when she voiced her grievances quietly and calmly , rather than screaming them , her family paid attention to her for the first time . |
| 7 | Later , two men took me into a corner and fired questions at me for what seemed like ages , but can only have been about half an hour . |
| 8 | The purchase of a tractor was often part-financed by the forest which made use of it for about half the year . |
| 9 | Others made use of it for axe or adze blades , among them the Indians of Amazonia , the Haida of Queen Charlotte Island , British Columbia , and the Eskimos of the Kobuk river , Alaska . |
| 10 | As the organisers could n't find any reason to suppress it or reject it , they dumped the piece behind screens where it could no longer be seen and we lost sight of it for the whole exhibition . |
| 11 | He said it was clear to him you were pining away , and that you could only be saved if I took you away and made love to you for the rest of our lives . ’ |
| 12 | By the terms of their appointment many foresters of fee were supposed to provide underforesters at their own expense , but in practice some took money from them for their appointment . |
| 13 | As the white cliffs of Dover receded and the coast of France drew near , the inimitable excitement of ‘ abroad ’ took hold of me for the first time — the only really positive emotion I had felt for twenty-six months . |
| 14 | In a review of the first edition of this book , Sara Mills took issue with me for pessimistically implying that linguistic reform is impossible ; she pointed out , and I think with some justice , that my analysis risks leaving women with no way to hit back when they are confronted with sexist language , at least until after the revolution . |
| 15 | At each locality which he visited , people brought cattle to him for a decision on ownership . |
| 16 | Silvio took care of it for me . ’ |
| 17 | I had sight of it for five minutes and decided to use it . ’ |
| 18 | Black-leaved ilexes grew in the churchyard and a brassy laburnum had flowers on it for one week out of the year . |
| 19 | Two men then ransacked her house while another stood guard over her for half an hour . |
| 20 | She spread hay over him for warmth , but it seemed as if the fever would shake him to pieces . |