Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pron] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Next morning Davis laid about himself for 77 , his highest first-class score , Botham again bowling poorly and being punished for it . |
| 2 | He said : ‘ I 've got a soft spot for the league , because I played in it for many years . ’ |
| 3 | The attempt in the Treaty to reorganize the Balkans as a stable structure of national states appealed to them for this reason . |
| 4 | Sir John Harington relates , however , how ‘ he would walk at certain hours in one of the aisles of St Paul 's , that if any came to him for spiritual advice and comfort ( as some did though not many ) he might impart it to them ’ . |
| 5 | His offence against those who came to him for medical help was less easy to punish . |
| 6 | Newton and Leibnitz discovered the principles of calculus at the same time ( and squabbled over it for twenty years ) ; Darwin thought of how the species evolved , but so did someone called A.R.Wallace , and at exactly the same time . |
| 7 | He stutters , but he caddied for me for five years and he knows the game inside out . |
| 8 | The acid fragrance upsets their delicate nasal passages and they avoid anything smeared in it for long periods of time . |
| 9 | The fight lasted but a few minutes , when the soldiers retreated before us for twelve miles . |
| 10 | After 1980 it was possible for charities to reclaim tax paid on money covenanted to them for four years or more , not just at the standard rate of tax , but at the higher rate if individuals paid tax at the higher rate . |
| 11 | I needed some comfort after the election result so I turned to it for some like-minded thought . |
| 12 | She lived with him for 11 years . |
| 13 | I lived with her for four years . |
| 14 | ‘ We had builders here for six months before we moved in , and then lived with them for another year , ’ says Sally , who was not only busy with their two young daughters , but was also running a full-time interior decoration business in Cirencester . |
| 15 | We lived with it for six months ! |
| 16 | Our younger son Barney and his wife lived with us for several years , and their son was born while they lived with us . |
| 17 | Big Percy Cherrett fed off him for two seasons but it was Peter Simpson who benefited most from the work of the talented left-winger and it is no coincidence that Peter scored more goals in each of the three seasons in which Clarke was his team-mate than in any of the succeeding campaigns . |
| 18 | Len , as he was known to his legion of friends , was elected to Selkirk Town Council in 1956 and served on it for 18 years , as well as on the then county council for 14 years . |
| 19 | Although most wireless owners had opened their doors so that people could listen to the King 's message , Mr Peters talked about it for those who had missed it . |
| 20 | And I worked for him for five pound a day because we needed the money . |
| 21 | and worked for him for ten years on surveys and designs for many of his works . |
| 22 | She worked for her for eighteen years . |
| 23 | All our buddies that worked for us for 50 years were just living and drinking and eating like fucking Rome … it was just hell and it had to stop . ’ |
| 24 | He worked with them for ten years , initially on the Sydney harbour and Newcastle upon Tyne bridges , and then from 1931 on the design and construction of welded steel bridges , of which his Billingham bridge was the first all-welded bridge in Britain . |
| 25 | An officer who worked alongside her for many years interpreted the fact that he had seen her kneeling at the mercy seat more than any other officer as a sign of her close relationship with God and the constant need for the kind of realignment which requires a certain humbling of oneself . |
| 26 | I talked to them for half an hour on maximum range and fuel economy . |
| 27 | Sapt talked to me for three hours about what I must do and what I must say , what I liked and what I did n't like . |
| 28 | A neighbour who heard the bell , a sound she had never heard in all her fifteen years in the street , puzzled over it for half an hour and then went across the road to the school . |
| 29 | We dined on spicy fish which repeated on me for most of the evening in the Jac , meeting pals , until I drowned it in an ocean of beer . |
| 30 | A deep lump seemed to fill Laura'a throat as the little blonde girls clung to her for some minutes . |