Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when someone tried to test the security of the spare wheel attached to the side of the body by pulling at it roughly and then , intrigued by the pair of leather driving-gauntlets resting on the front seat , fitted them on and passed them around for general examination he decided it was time to leave . |
| 2 | The following afternoon he invited her round for another meal . |
| 3 | PSYCHIATRIC reports are to be prepared on an unemployed woodcutter , Brian McGregor , whose forged football coupon lined him up for potential winnings of £3,826.47 billion . |
| 4 | He has several times got himself into a position of strength in his battle with parliament , and bartered it away for short-term gains . |
| 5 | She played him patiently for two days before she hooked him , and reeled him in . |
| 6 | And last night he eluded his two markers to decisive effect although they shadowed him well for much of the match . |
| 7 | In Pearce [ 1973 ] Crim LR 321 ( CA ) , the accused was guilty when he put a boat onto a trailer and drove it away for later use . |
| 8 | The councillors loved it , and journalists filed it away for some distant future when Mr Portillo might feature in a Conservative leadership election , writes Valerie Elliott . |
| 9 | After a brief lapse , Fate booked us in for more hardship . |
| 10 | Then you turned them over for twelve hours to the right , and twelve hours to the left , and up they go ! |
| 11 | and cos he paid him twice for that , their sweets , and John was coming up , so , I do n't know if it was genuine , asked him and I cos I knew John was coming up |
| 12 | And as the all-too-solid original took a single step out from the doorway he dropped the loop of wire over its head and , like a man straining to start an outboard motor , suddenly hauled it tight for all he was worth . |
| 13 | There was about a quarter of the bottle left , and Edward poured it out for both of them . |
| 14 | Last year 's budget debacle , in which Mr Brown and Mr Wilson slugged it out for 64 days , took all the state 's politicians to new lows in popularity . |
| 15 | The recriminations and angst of an unhappy marriage that reverberated through my head could well have had a self-destructive influence in that lonely , haunting valley and finished me off for good , no doubt . |
| 16 | She came into my mind when a woman in the slums of West Kingston , Jamaica , with a child at her breast and another three hanging around her skirts followed me around for two hours repeating , ‘ Some milk would be better than nothing . ’ |
| 17 | But his own doctor said he was not fit even for office work and signed him off for another six months because of ‘ obesity and hypertension ’ . |
| 18 | And all four of them discovered the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and his brand of Transcendental Meditation — and took it seriously enough to fly to India and study at his feet in Rishikesh ( John and George stuck it out for two months , Paul for one and a homesick Ringo for only ten days ) . |
| 19 | Jimmy Tarbuck and his mate Kenny Lynch followed us around for one of the practice days and , unusually for Tom and I , it was a sunny day . |
| 20 | As this liaison officer recognised , the basic level of skills training equipped them only for unskilled work and they had to learn to cope with compromise : |
| 21 | Far from trying to develop their targets for the long haul , the Milken minions broke them up for quick gain . |
| 22 | The American woman watched him intently for several minutes , a commotion of half-forgotten sensations stirring within her , but if he had noticed her presence he gave no sign . |
| 23 | He examined her objectively for several minutes . |
| 24 | Maura loved him just for those words . |
| 25 | A few weeks later the appointments committee asked him back for another interview ; only one other candidate remained on the shortlist . |
| 26 | He took me down for many terrible half-hours beneath the floorboards , beneath the joists , with cord or cable in his questing hand ; the platonic darkness of this underworld became a figure for our nightlife , candle-lit , torchbeam-pierced ; our old existence I came to picture as a boundless cathedral of light . |
| 27 | Sent you out for some fresh air , did they — stop you watching endless videos ? |
| 28 | And I rung for an ambulance and it came and we took her up and sat with her , and they kept her in for four days . |
| 29 | This time the hospital kept him in for several weeks and his condition deteriorated until the Sunday morning the phone rang at 6.30 am and the words ‘ We think you should come to the hospital as soon as you can . ’ |
| 30 | But Reid 's fury was outweighed by his concern over Paul Lake , who was carried off after seven minutes with what appeared to be a recurrence of the knee injury that kept him out for two years . |