Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [adv] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trainer Richard Hannon entered her yesterday for the Hambro Countrywide Fillies Stakes at Newmarket and the Daily Mail Leisure Stakes at Lingfield on Saturday . |
| 2 | He stood there , his face awash with blood , his swollen mouth hanging open , but still conscious , still awake enough to see his younger brother 's eyes as they fixed his own and lined him up for the coup de grace . |
| 3 | We played with Gary player for the first two rounds and he was as miserable as sin about our luck with the weather because we caught it again for the second round . |
| 4 | Charles made himself up for the new role , and dressed in the new costume . |
| 5 | None of this was her affair , she told herself not for the first time . |
| 6 | It really would be very much more practical to have her hair cut , she told herself severely for the umpteenth time , but the simple truth was that she liked having her hair long , loved the feeling of the heavy silken strands on her skin . |
| 7 | You did the wise thing , calling a halt when you did , she told herself sharply for the umpteenth time . |
| 8 | She booked herself in for the works as she put it — a facial and full-body massage . |
| 9 | Rumour had it the owner of the Gazi burned it down for the insurance money . |
| 10 | That settled , I booked myself in for the first two weeks of August , five months after my operation . |
| 11 | The Heathfield trainer commented : ‘ Breakfast Car bashed a leg in his last race and got a bit of heat in it , so we turned him away for the rest of last season . |
| 12 | Impulses of attraction towards beautiful forms or faces troubled him frequently for the next two years at Oxford . |
| 13 | Still , I had an overseas news radio set and sometimes at dusk when I turned it on for the BBC overseas news , the light on its dial welcomed me like a beacon from home . |
| 14 | Hankin added : ‘ We received a biggish bid for a youngster , but I turned it down for the benefit of the future of Darlington . ’ |
| 15 | It was no fun , and the putrid bridie at the restaurant , thrown across the counter at me by a young waitress who clearly blamed me personally for the shortcomings in her life , was little consolation . |
| 16 | They said their father contacted them suddenly for the first time two months ago after walking out on them 18 years ago . |
| 17 | The local police kindly agreed to come in on the act and a few off-duty policemen pretended to stalk the burglars and locked them up for the night at a disused police station at Ironbridge ! |
| 18 | ‘ It was his first job and he locked himself away for the day with a feather and a bottle of wine , ’ remembers Sally . |
| 19 | ‘ The person who signed you up for the job in the first place , remember . ’ |
| 20 | I mentally signed him up for the STBO ( Stating the B — ng Obvious ) Club . |
| 21 | Again he thanked her warmly for the meal and her hospitality , then , when she had gone , went before Shepherd and his son into the other room . |
| 22 | Mother was surprised to see their visitor , but she thanked him again for the things he had sent when she was ill . |
| 23 | Our fleet now consisted of three " V " vessels , Venturous , Vigilant and Valiant , all well equipped , modern , purpose-built patrol boats which were worked hard and served us well for the next ten years . |
| 24 | He addressed us now for the first time , in far more lucid Indonesian than we had ever heard from his elders . |
| 25 | She fluffed it in rehearsal , but pulled it off for the cameras . |
| 26 | One of Alejandro 's sons playing back rode him off for the backhand and hit it up the field to his brother who dribbled it a few yards , then sliced it to Perdita . |
| 27 | His hands were not particularly robust , but he missed very few matches until June 1952 , when appendicitis ruled him out for the rest of the summer . |
| 28 | The figure stopped dead and saw them obviously for the first time . |
| 29 | By Sunday evening , though , I was getting back to myself and expected to be let out in a day or two but they kept me in for the week , giving me tests , including an electrocardiogram . ’ |
| 30 | But like that A lot of families had them and kept them just for the family . |