Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [indef pn] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once a femur or a forearm would have played a pure note if you 'd used one for a pipe , but the pieces would whistle harsh and offkey now from the holes bored into them by the efficient mandibles of her companions in the vertical grave , the cenote where they placed her after the battle , during the truce . |
| 2 | A trip to the local agent found they had not got one in stock , but I managed to get one for a P6 car . |
| 3 | They had to choose someone for the launching ceremony and our child 's name was first out of the hat . |
| 4 | The first was that , with the passage in 1832 of the Reform Bill came the full realisation that parliamentary reform had done nothing for the emergent working class , except to isolate it . |
| 5 | ‘ Penny for them , ’ said Adam , when they were halfway through the meal and she had said nothing for a while . |
| 6 | No one had said anything for a long time . |
| 7 | ( I had a meeting of an advisory committee at the Bodleian at three , which was likely to be acrimonious and prolonged , and I simply had to buy something for the boys ' dinner first . ) |
| 8 | in the information so we had to we had to assume one for the purpose of public consultation but we said that the final decision on standards would be taken er in another time . |
| 9 | Bert was full of praise for the quality of craftsmanship on the example which he had when they first came out ( he was one of the six guitarists on the committee involved in the design of Höfner 's ‘ Committee ’ guitar ) , and told us that he had used one for a couple of his hits — Big Beat Boogie and Sorry Robbie … |
| 10 | All of them were big men who had drawn lots for the honour of the occasion , and carefully they lifted Artai and carried him up the short flight of steps to the summit of the plinth . |
| 11 | She had cared nothing for the man who was attacking her then ; her despair now was because she could not bear the caresses of the man whom she loved , and she knew loved her . |
| 12 | He wanted to know whether Wickham had arrested anyone for the murder because until then he could not face going to work . |
| 13 | He then provided : ‘ I wish whatever legacies I have left to be paid by you , my dear son , and if any debt shall emerge , if I had borrowed anything for a time and shall owe it , I wish it to be paid by you , so that what I have left your sister may pass to her undiminished . ’ |
| 14 | had to have one for a short while , she was quite young and I , we 'd only just moved here and I took her to the vet the used to be in Sandhurst , they said it was a bee sting , they put purple stuff on it |
| 15 | Gina , Barbara , Ronnie and Chris Jury , a friend of theirs from Hull University Drama Department days , volunteered to arrange something for the second anniversary of John 's kidnap on 17 April . |
| 16 | In 1985 a smooth man ’ , a ‘ sophisticated hustler ’ appeared in Washington and approached North , saying he wanted to do something for the contras . |
| 17 | I 've just returned from South Africa , during which he went to stay with Sally Newcombe and refused to eat anything for a week and a half ’ . |