Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] for [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even when he scolded them for some minor wrongdoing , he would cite the great orators like Cicero or Burke , as if he was taking part in a parliamentary debate , instead of addressing two small boys . |
| 2 | The fisherman 's wife , however , chastised him for this simple request and returned to the shore , there to harangue the Golden Fish with her demands for jewels , wealth and status . |
| 3 | Lord Hulton was a devotee of May and Baker 's Propamidine Cream and used it for all minor cuts and grazes in his cattle . |
| 4 | So , for instance , the Crowther Report of 1959 on the education of 15-18-year-olds talked about the likelihood that middle-class girls would combine a career with motherhood and marriage and the necessity for them to receive an education which prepared them for this future dual role . |
| 5 | That pleased her for some unknown reason . |
| 6 | Years later , she acknowledged the debt she owed him for those early lessons in self-determination . |
| 7 | And what we 've done now , and with colleagues from Germany , is to take cores off north west Africa , say about twenty metres down into the sediment , we sample them in the lab here and took the small amounts of sediment and examined them for these long chain compounds and we were extremely excited to see that as we went down this core , back through the last few hundred thousand years , we could see our signal on sea surface temperature oscillating about roughly in the same way that er has been found with other methods of getting at the past history of the climate . |
| 8 | ‘ I had to coax two into it because they are not very experienced cook , but I chose them for that very reason , ’ he says . |
| 9 | Mary Whitehouse denounced it for encouraging in-corridor insurrection , while Russell Knott from the National Association Of Schoolmasters complained that it made the teachers look like twats . |
| 10 | The Goths , however , objected to this national treasure being handed over , and redeemed it for 200,000 solidi . |
| 11 | Selahattin Simsek said that during his interrogation , police officers tortured him for 23 consecutive days , but he confessed to nothing more than ‘ a certain sympathy ’ for the PKK . |
| 12 | He turned to face her then , his eyes intent as they met hers for one long minute , and she had the strangest feeling that he was trying to look inside her soul . |
| 13 | That 's why he left me for some other woman — one who did n't booze and do embarrassing things , or get moody , or stupid , or passionate . ’ |
| 14 | He says they stopped selling replica handguns because he suspected that some of his customers wanted them for possible criminal reasons . |
| 15 | It was as if the attacking force had drawn back their battering-ram and steadied it for one final assault . |
| 16 | ‘ I mourned it for two whole days when it died . ’ |