Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pron] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 31 | One bird had frustrated me for most of the trip . |
| 32 | Before he had become involved with Sien he had used her for some time as a model . |
| 33 | Riddle , a systematic person , had used it for all the oddments he had wished to keep which did not fit into his filing system , and the bottom of the drawer was covered to a depth of two or three inches with papers . |
| 34 | The offender had a dispute with the victim as a result of the sale by her of his car : the offender claimed that she had sold it for less than it was worth , and had not paid over to him his proper share in the proceeds of the sale . |
| 35 | The Romanians had played it for all it was worth . |
| 36 | The present halberdier , Alf Jackson , had accompanied him for those thirty years . |
| 37 | He sounded as if he was about to simply replace the phone and go , and Jenna had steeled herself for this . |
| 38 | She had known him for many years . |
| 39 | But there was no denying that today his wife was better than he had known her for many many months . |
| 40 | Once home — and although she had eaten nothing for several hours — Annette found that she could not face the thought of a meal , even though her husband offered to prepare one for her . |
| 41 | As a church architect , I have visited , I believe , all the cathedrals in Europe — Chartres , Burgos , Canterbury , Cologne , Saragossa , Milano , Ely , Zagreb , Gozo , Rheims — ’ I continued to name them for some while as we tramped down the nave . |
| 42 | I make this point after returning from a day 's walking near Ullswater when I was approached by a party of walkers who had followed me for some distance thinking that I was headed for the same destination . |
| 43 | GULF War hero Paul Butler , who saw two pals killed in the American ‘ friendly fire ’ attack , went berserk when he heard his wife had left him for another man . |
| 44 | He took over his own printing company called E L Hildreth in the forties and in the fifties sometime sold that out and set up a design shop to produce books and magazines , near Brattleboro , Vermont , and the prep school that I went to had retained him for many years as their printing adviser and , you know , he did the catalogues . |
| 45 | And er then we after the war was finished , we continued making them for several years , but we had to transfer it to another factory . |
| 46 | He had taken me for some kind of refugee from the Napoleonic Wars ! |
| 47 | His mother had nagged him for some time about entering his lodger 's room . |
| 48 | When I said thank you for that . |
| 49 | Well I actually said thank you for that and she dissolved into fits of laughter . |
| 50 | Roirbak had mistaken her for another boy : a skinny , awkward creature , but pretty in her own way , he conceded . |
| 51 | She also warned Quinn of the abrasive Kevin Brown , who had chosen her for this mission and had established himself in London with a team of eight to ‘ keep an eye on things ’ . |
| 52 | I felt sure Miss Havisham had chosen us for each other . |
| 53 | I took another deep breath — I only wanted to see him for half an hour — and said what I could . |
| 54 | And eventually they said well the stereotype is basically sort of like the equivalent in litho plate making really said that this was , no of course it is metal , sorry it 's not metal , it is letterpress The Guardian and it is , they make these Nyclopone plates or something and they really wanted to keep it for that reason . |
| 55 | A key tradition claims St Magnus refused to arm himself for this battle and chose to sing from his psalter on King Magnus 's ship , surviving unhurt in the midst of the fray . |