Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] for [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | No one asked me for any comment . |
| 3 | ‘ Yes Dad , she asked me for some help . ’ |
| 4 | They asked me for more money . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | So what did she say about the money when you tried her for less money ? |
| 8 | 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 : |
| 9 | So when we set out to develop our new Panasonic brand AT compatible personal computer , we designed it for maximum versatility . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I remember , one bloke , mind-reader he was — Steenie booked him for some Variety bill , forget where it was now . |
| 14 | ‘ I do n't think I really believed it for one second . |
| 15 | He studied it for some time and then said : ‘ That 's bad , I 'm afraid . |
| 16 | The others keened themselves for any sound , for any indication of anyone responding to Silk 's movement — the clink of a grenade pin , the withering blast of a machine gun . |
| 17 | My boss returned along the passage at a furious gallop and I steeled myself for some unpleasantness as the young man was rousted from his bed . |
| 18 | comment if I asked you for some advice ? |
| 19 | She paid me for this week and she said well I you 've got ninety pound here |
| 20 | She loathed herself for such pettiness , but she was so helplessly without any control over their relationship that pride or all that remained of it demanded that she administer these little pricks to his satisfaction , although she knew she had no hope of succeeding in puncturing it properly . |
| 21 | ‘ Oh , dear , you do n't want to hear my stories , ’ he would say when Benny and Eve plagued him for some information . |
| 22 | In this act , Luke is saying that God , who sent Jesus to do his work on earth , now consecrated him for that work . |
| 23 | His lips twisted in scorn , and Lissa hated him for that look . |
| 24 | And I was not averse to fighting with any boy who challenged me for one reason or another . |
| 25 | They pulled the chunky torches from their holsters , and primed them for high output . |
| 26 | Well you said you wo ordered one for another place . |
| 27 | Because Boo had not been seen for so long by Maycomb , he was turned into a scapegoat by the adults who blamed him for any thing and every thing that went wrong , and the children thought of him as a terrible monster with blood dripping from his mouth who ate squirrels . |
| 28 | To cross the river we returned to the road , followed it for some way parallel to the railway and then joined the line again near a farm . |
| 29 | I returned it to the centre and exchanged it for another kit which also gave me a zero reading . |
| 30 | ‘ They asked for an appointment , so I arranged it for this afternoon . |