Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [pron] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway , I 'd been very busy the day before and Doreen had irritated me for other reasons . |
| 2 | He fixed his mind on a rule his father had given him for public speaking : Get a vague plan and then say anything that comes into your head . |
| 3 | Whatever mysterious spirit had unlocked the verse , it had freed him for other human satisfactions , for love ; or was it the other way around ? |
| 4 | Of course it was not certain either that Zoser had done it or that , if he had done it , he had done it for sectarian reasons . |
| 5 | The idea had been in the back of her mind for a few days now and this evening had decided it for sure . |
| 6 | The paper owner , the local council , had bought it for eventual use as a road , but had no immediate use for it . |
| 7 | THE CAPTAIN had had what for ordinary mortals would have been a trying two days . |
| 8 | Just over half of the teachers claiming to have seen the booklet said they had used it for in-service training in their school . |
| 9 | But she knew in her heart that , if she had ever had Jonathon , she had lost him for good . |
| 10 | Worldwide governments had blown it for different reasons . |
| 11 | Given the hypothetical choice — none had faced it for real — three dog owners at City Road said it was easy . |