Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A decade ago , Kung Fu martial arts films were banned by Zambian cinemas after Kaunda attacked them for encouraging violence amongst youths . |
| 2 | The staff and right leg propelled me for forty yards until the leg gave way and the injured one , without a thought , took the strain and I ended up on my hands and knees ranting and raving . |
| 3 | He asked me for 50,000 francs for Félix . |
| 4 | No one asked me for any comment . |
| 5 | ‘ Yes Dad , she asked me for some help . ’ |
| 6 | They asked me for more money . |
| 7 | In a psychoanalytic study of the Amazons Bernice Schultz Engle points out that according to tradition they ‘ cared nothing for womanly arts , spent ten months of the year farming , pasturing cattle , and especially in training horses . |
| 8 | In any case it was Shirley who had typed the card and she was in a higher or lower world that cared nothing for such trivia . |
| 9 | So he sold them for four X. |
| 10 | I sold them for fifteen pounds . |
| 11 | Mr Singleton sold them for two pounds each . |
| 12 | ‘ They acted as judge and jury and suspended me for ten weeks without a trial . |
| 13 | It achieved temperatures over a million degrees and sustained them for several milliseconds . |
| 14 | Sixty pound fifty it cost me for six months ! |
| 15 | I just knew I was inspired when I proposed you for this job here , that it would come back to me in some incredible way . |
| 16 | So what did she say about the money when you tried her for less money ? |
| 17 | For Prothero is the demon-king of the Poundian pantomime , ever since Pound cast him for this role by printing , at the end of his essay on De Gourmont — originally in the Little Review , then in Instigations ( 1920 ) — the letter which Prothero wrote him in October 1914 : |
| 18 | And she scolded him for frightening children Adam , six , Louise , four , and two-year-old Carl . |
| 19 | The Russian official recently so upset his domestic association that they suspended him for two months , although UEFA insist : ‘ He 's still one of the best referees in Europe and the right man for the job . ’ |
| 20 | The Russian official recently so upset his domestic association that they suspended him for two months , although UEFA insist : ‘ He 's still one of the best referees in Europe and the right man for the job . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Players are overpaid , pampered prima donnas , ’ he says , with a bluntness once very familiar to League secretary Alan Hardaker who in 1970 suspended him for ten weeks . |
| 22 | So when we set out to develop our new Panasonic brand AT compatible personal computer , we designed it for maximum versatility . |
| 23 | Those patients with a good postoperative result ‘ maintained it for many years , gained occupationally and vocationally , were pleased with the results of the operation , and were willing to recommend it to others ’ . |
| 24 | I used it for New Blues and almost all of Summer Song and perhaps the solo on Rubina 's Blue Sky Happiness . |
| 25 | UN relief flights to Juba — known as " Operation Lifeline Sudan " — were halted temporarily on July 21 , after Sudanese government troops had boarded a UN plane and used it for one week to transport troops and military equipment . |
| 26 | I pointed out that the ground was once part of Tip Farm and that on rainy days Bob Crudge still used it for artificial insemination . |
| 27 | JIM COURIER redeemed himself for past Davis Cup failures by beating Switzerland 's Jakob Hlasek in Fort Worth , Texas last night to clinch the Cup for the United States for the 30th time since 1900 . |
| 28 | Cheerful , and unaware of the failures at the southern lock , he urged on young Watson , who steeled himself for another attempt at breaking through the place . |
| 29 | The German academics very prudently ignored him for forty years ; but lately , to the disgrace of Germany , he has been discovered by an English critic . |
| 30 | He studied her for several seconds , as if baffled . |