Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [pers pn] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Ireland last week , we were accused of writing a ‘ dirty ’ book for vulgar gain ( would it have been any better if we 'd done it for charity ? ) and worse , of racism . |
| 2 | Then , obeying an impulse she barely understood , she took the silver medallion out of the inner pocket of her bag , where she 'd zipped it for safekeeping , and fastened the chain round her neck . |
| 3 | Perhaps because she 'd dressed them for winter ? |
| 4 | Nature , he thought , had intended him for scholarship yet here he was at forty-six , still a small-town tradesman . |
| 5 | She was wearing the huge red skirt she had made out of some curtains someone had sent to the jumble , and a black polo-necked jersey , and she had tied her hair up with the Indian scarf Luke had given her for Christmas . |
| 6 | She could find only her chequebook and the small , leather-bound directory Jasper had given her for Christmas and into which , to gratify the child , she had painstakingly copied the addresses and phone numbers of friends accumulated throughout a lifetime . |
| 7 | Her family was delighted although Fiona remembers her sister-in-law in America asking anxiously about the kitten James had given her for Christmas . |
| 8 | The Imperium had assigned them for life to Quintus , to assist in its uplift . |
| 9 | We had booked it for Easter in 1962 , along with two friends from Glasgow . |
| 10 | My violin teacher had recommended it for chamber music , and when I found out that on one of the weeks the famous violinist , Ruggiero Ricci , would be there , I was certain that I would go . |
| 11 | After the matinée , she had met him for tea , and he had held her hand , and looked soulful , and told her how innocent she was and how easy it would be to fall in love with her , but how he must n't , he could n't , because he would be leaving and it would n't be fair to her , and anyway , he had his career to think of , etc . |
| 12 | She took one last look at herself in the wardrobe mirror before she pulled on the sheepskin that her father had bought her for Christmas . |
| 13 | She had sued him for libel . |
| 14 | ‘ Mistress Philippa had invited us for supper . ’ |
| 15 | Again , this makes sense only if it is allowed that Kimon had , for several years already , had his rivals : Pericles had prosecuted him for bribery , though the charge was withdrawn . |
| 16 | They had started off friends but Joseph 's first wife had left him for Leary . |
| 17 | She had heard the arrival as she weeded in the walled garden , but , like Taggy , she had taken it for Diggory . |
| 18 | The crux of the matter today is that those children were not listened to or believed when they complained to the very people in whose care we had put them for protection . |
| 19 | Cumbermound had sent him for brandy and glasses . |
| 20 | They did not even receive presents their mother and other people had sent them for Christmas . |
| 21 | Would Gay like the bedroom slippers she had sent her for Christmas ? |
| 22 | Critical also of the World Cup organisation , and referring to the umpiring in West Indies as ‘ disgraceful ’ , this agonising cricketer , who came from nowhere at 18 , spotted by Javed Miandad , seems greatly perturbed still at the £1000 fine extracted from him for swearing within the hearing of umpire Plews after he had banned him for bowling bouncers against Warwickshire . |
| 23 | They had fetched him for Christmas and he was staying on for the New Year . |
| 24 | It was quite soon after the terrible motor accident that had crippled him for life , and she had just come in from the garden with a bunch of flowers for him . |