Example sentences of "[vb past] [pos pn] [noun] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he he got he got my hand for five seconds and then I I got I got his hand for ten something like that . |
| 2 | and we enjoyed it so much , we went and asked my mother for some more money , we stayed another week and then when we got back to London er Mrs said I think we better go , you know , get away from London in |
| 3 | Her marriage had continued to slide downhill until eventually , after being evicted from the house , she divorced my stepfather for persistent cruelty , and took a job as the live-in caretaker of a seedy block of flats . |
| 4 | Because I just fixed my mortgage for four years with the Halifax , and it 's a total gamble fixing mortgages , by the way , if we , you know , because I do n't know where interest rates are going to go , but I , I fixed at seven point seven five percent for four years . |
| 5 | I then found my application for financial assistance for part-time study had been rejected ‘ because anthropology is not on the approved list of subjects ( in the Circular ) ’ ( Memo from HQ 1977 ) . |
| 6 | And then Mr then erm dismissed my concerns for affordable supply in that it had all been said before . |
| 7 | ‘ Margaret , ’ called my mother , and ‘ Margaret ’ again , her voice taking on the faint exasperation that had flavoured her tone as she used my name for many years now . |
| 8 | The men strained their ears for continuing sounds of the ghostly train . |
| 9 | Sir David Attenborough has been visiting a nature reserve to thank industrialists for helping to save a precious piece of the environment.He joined business sponsors who swopped their pinstripes for green wellies for the day . |
| 10 | About 1,000 BP employees in Glasgow evacuated their offices for two hours yesterday after a pipe in the chilling plant of an air conditioning system broke loose , releasing gas into the building . |
| 11 | Coleridge and Sara fixed their wedding for early October , and in the meantime began looking for a home . |
| 12 | As an early priority , C&P management thoroughly reviewed its strategy for each individual business . |
| 13 | The morning room was for comings and goings , where odd chairs changed their places for different conveniences , and shoes and boots from the fields were not forbidden . |
| 14 | Doctor Laura Maingay changed her sandals for driving shoes , pulled on a pair of string-backed driving gloves and wound a silk square over springy brindled hair . |
| 15 | The traditional complaint of consumers — who in Belfast supermarkets this week demonstrated their enthusiasm for cheaper beef — is that they pay twice for the beef mountain . |
| 16 | About one third of drivers said they used their cars for unnecessary journeys . |
| 17 | But common sense , coupled with the prospect of the time and paperwork involved in interviewing the hundred or so people who 'd been through the Cookery and Refreshment Tent during the past few hours finally defeated his hope for personal glory through brilliant deduction . |
| 18 | Following Bush 's victory , Atwater became chairman of the RNC and maintained his reputation for uncompromising aggression with a series of attacks upon Democrat leaders in Congress . |
| 19 | A lengthy list of injury absentees at the weekend underlined his call for further new faces at the club ; youngsters Gary Paterson , Andy Dow , Neil McCann and Paul Ritchie receiving first team calls after Morten Wieghorst , Graham Rix , Jamie McGowan and Gary McKeown were forced to call off . |
| 20 | Cheers : Johan Egelstedt toasts his victory with Greville Janner , the local MP who championed his fight for equal status with female au pairs |
| 21 | On learning of this , Achym pursued his steward for three miles to Bury Down , where he did him to death at a place known as Slew Gate . |
| 22 | I shall return to this point later , but must first record how matters went in the Divisional Court , omitting for present purposes any reference to an alternative ground of relief concerning the Director 's refusal to wait whilst the applicant pursued his application for legal aid , which failed in the Divisional Court and was not renewed on appeal . |
| 23 | The subjects were 20 Japanese patients with gastric ulcers ( 15 men and five women , aged 49 ( 13 ) years ) who visited our hospital for gastroendoscopic examination . |
| 24 | I had visions of having to pay vast amounts as ‘ punishment ’ , but in the end they just re-scheduled our flights for one whole day later . |
| 25 | It abrogated the treaty with Britain , affirmed its support for Arab nationalism , and turned to other Arab regimes for the subsidies necessary for the Jordanian economy . |
| 26 | During 1959 the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile lobby successfully argued their case for automated weapons . |
| 27 | When the negotiations began at Dalat it was Giap who assumed the principal role on the Vietnamese side and while , as communists , they might have accepted a smaller but communist state that could conceivably have been free of the French , it was as nationalists that the Vietminh argued their case for indissoluble national unity . |
| 28 | The Layfield Committee recommended its adoption for domestic property ( Layfield 1976 : 171 ) and the government appeared to accept the point ( DOE 1977e ) . |
| 29 | It was the time when many stars started to come out of the political closet and openly voiced their support for one candidate or another . |
| 30 | The Mitterrand Government also announced their plans for worldwide disarmament initiatives covering nuclear , chemical and biological weapons . |