Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was to be no pay , and yet any private who failed to attend for two hours , at least twice a week , for ‘ The Exercise ’ when the troops would ‘ … go through the Evolutions together ’ would be fined two shillings . |
| 2 | Aszal had all the documents required from a returning immigrant , but he was questioned for four hours and made to wait for four hours and then told he could go . |
| 3 | I was dead thin and not eating anything and then I got sacked for gross misconduct , y'know , for never going in and that . |
| 4 | The historical fact is that the settlement of 1688–1701 failed to settle everything ; it failed to provide for all contingencies . |
| 5 | The art seems to have died out in Crete altogether , yet mysteriously reappeared in Mycenae in the thirteenth century BC ; Sinclair Hood ( 1978 ) has suggested that after the conquest of Minoan Crete by Myceneans , the finest craftsmen may have been taken by force to the mainland and made to work for new masters . |
| 6 | The negotiators agreed to meet for further discussions but did not set a date . |
| 7 | So anyway , before I heard that I 'd got an appointment at the Clinic , I got caught for one burglary and so I told them about the rest , 'cos I wanted to get off it an ’ I knew that was the only way of getting off it and I thought , now I 've been caught , I might as well get meself stuck down for a bit , like , rather than get a big fine which I wouldn'a been able to handle at that time … . |
| 8 | Sleepily she tried to adjust for this situation , flipping over and snuggling into the heated surface of his chest . |
| 9 | Josie tried to reach for some killer of an argument , a real zinger that she could pull out of the air and use to disarm all opposition . |
| 10 | That 's it ; except Nina stopped looking for any knight a long time ago . ’ |
| 11 | Provision must be made for emergencies and a degree of flexibility maintained to allow for changing circumstances , such as the introduction of a new subject or course . |
| 12 | ‘ It was during the post-punk kind of period and I went through a series of bands , but I must admit I found working for other people really difficult . |
| 13 | None of this was available to the hard-pressed scholarly hacks in Gissing 's new Grub Street , or to the real-life Francis Thompson , keeping himself just alive by high-quality literary journalism , which involved working for twelve hours every day and taking no holidays . |
| 14 | Following his daughter 's death , Hugo ceased writing for several years . |
| 15 | ‘ I really came to search for some things for my collection . ’ |
| 16 | Nathan thought of the shotgun locked under his chin ; he 'd held himself so rigid that night that he 'd ached for three days afterwards . |
| 17 | The on-screen couple , quietly glowing with beauty and amusement — they seemed made for each other ; but after various misunderstandings and adventures they ended up going their separate ways . |
| 18 | just as cliché haunted Henry 's daily journey to the train , his socks from Marks and Spencers ' , his regular nightly bedtime , his fondness for a cup of tea at ten thirty in the evening , just as he seemed to be destined to be as remorselessly English as the plane trees in the street outside or the homecoming commuters clacking through the twilight towards the village , so his one existential act ( had n't someone called it that ? ) seemed destined for suburban predictability . |
| 19 | I might have felt a little downcast at that point , only the evening had made me feel more encouraged about my prospects with her than I 'd felt for some time . |
| 20 | The goons have discovered part of an old dismantled ladder which we 'd used for earlier trials and we think it may put them onto something . ’ |
| 21 | £20 was all he 'd got for one beast . |
| 22 | She reminded me that I was a married man — forbade me to approach her or speak to her again in that way , but at the same time I knew I had made her think about the old days — the attraction we 'd had for each other which she could not deny . |
| 23 | When he asked for an artificial leg for his newly amputated right leg he was told not only that he could n't have one , but he 'd also have to give up his existing left false leg , which he 'd had for six years . |
| 24 | May I draw to the attention of the Secretary of State the case of a Wakefield man who was refused expensive injections for infertility by a fund-holding GP and told to apply for that treatment to a non fund-holding practice in Wakefield ? |
| 25 | Estabrook watched the smoke drift up over the assassin 's grey eyes , and before he could prevent himself he was telling his story , the rules he 'd drawn for this exchange forgotten . |
| 26 | Aware of the continuity of German history and bearing in mind the special responsibility arising from our past for a democratic development in Germany committed to respect for human rights and to peace , |
| 27 | The cacophony within the house seemed to last for several minutes , but was perhaps only of seconds ' duration . |
| 28 | The witnesses would say later that the searingly brilliant white flash seemed to last for several seconds . |
| 29 | There was a long pause while she cleared the bed of her things , and she was aware of his eyes on her every movement as he checked over the items she 'd packed for any signs of decadence . |
| 30 | Doctors at a Bristol hospital said today , they 'd called for more research following two cases there in which mothers had used water baths in the early stages of labour . |