Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [pers pn] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd suspected it for some time , but last week had seen it for herself . |
| 2 | I 'd done it for four years on the trot . |
| 3 | She 'd had it for seven years , and it had been a few years old when she and Tony had bought it . |
| 4 | I think it was a car that she 'd had for was well looked after her dad used to see to it for her but it was she 'd had it for some years and she was always poodling about in you see . |
| 5 | I did n't know she had this cold and she 'd had it for ten |
| 6 | Hagans said he 'd known her for two years and they 'd met by appointment . |
| 7 | He 'd done it again , she realised in amazement — with just a few choice words he 'd knocked her for six . |
| 8 | Lucy knew she had to tell him something , so she said , ‘ She got mad with me when I admitted you 'd taken me for two bush walks . |
| 9 | The race was the brainchild of Chay Blythe , he 'd planned it for 4 years and raised the money for 10 million pound yachts . |
| 10 | Eventually , Reid said , ‘ All Susan ever said about her father was that he was a grade-A shit who 'd ignored her for most of her life and thought money was a good substitute for love . |
| 11 | She 'd chosen it for that reason — and because it was the colour of wine . |
| 12 | He had treated her for several months using her husband as an interpreter — as though her husband were an objective witness to her depression . |
| 13 | Anyway , I 'd been very busy the day before and Doreen had irritated me for other reasons . |
| 14 | The argument is familiar — Lord Gordon-Walker said he had heard it for forty years — but , even more , it is a political argument . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Mohawk Grand Chief Joe Norton warned that there would be further violence unless the Quebec authorities agreed to return policing of the reservation to the control of the Indians , who had policed it for 11 years prior to the outbreak of the 1990 trouble . |
| 17 | London University had interviewed me for both of the courses for which I had applied : Arabic and Economics , and Swahili and Commercial Law . |
| 18 | What could be anticipated with confidence was the beneficial results of redistribution , for Unionists had expected them for some time . |
| 19 | In addition to securing Commonwealth support for their position , the British sought to consolidate their own aviation policy into some definable form , something which had eluded them for several years . |
| 20 | They had known all along they had a good , competitive car ; a single mistake had mired them for three races ; it was now solved and they could build for the future . |
| 21 | For Small , getting out the magazine that had absorbed her for two years was the commitment , not this eccentric lurch into the unknown . |
| 22 | Nothing in his many years ' service had prepared him for this sort of situation . |
| 23 | Again , Karr had prepared him for this . |
| 24 | Nothing had prepared me for that . |
| 25 | Shocking as the assault had been , it had prepared her for another encounter — an encounter with a youth of her own age , bewildered and uneasy , one called to high estate who found himself of a sudden alone on the edge of an abyss … |
| 26 | Nothing in Australian society nor in the easy commerce between don and undergraduate which she had witnessed and occasionally shared with Michael at Cambridge , had prepared her for this . |
| 27 | Nothing in her life had prepared her for this wanton fire , burning and aching inside her . |
| 28 | She had dreamt of this moment , fantasised it in her mind so many lonely dark nights , and now it was happening and nothing had prepared her for this self-destruction . |
| 29 | Nothing in our four days on the felucca with this sullen boy had prepared us for this , as nothing could have prepared him for that afternoon in Asyut . |
| 30 | She had shot him for all the things he had done to her and her husband , shot him because , in the end , she still loved him , and it made his ultimate betrayal all the harder to bear . |