Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the , I went to the my little now in Italy , making this conditional he says it 's no bloody good on me , poor old curly what , I think he 's about ninety , he looked it , he said what they keep making you conditional for he said you 've got no ruddy condition it 's gone and the , the recommended me for a complete discharge and , and eh , I started off with fifty per cent pension . |
| 2 | I earned quite a lot of money by showing my Lilliputian animals to people , and in the end I sold them for a high price . |
| 3 | I pulled down my damp bloomers and changed them for a warm , dry pair that were hanging on the line over the fire . |
| 4 | His eyes were ice-bright , and pierced her like twin blades as he regarded her for a long moment . |
| 5 | Prison officials , concerned about his poor health , referred him for a medical examination which confirmed widespread injuries , including marks around the wrist , apparently caused by the hanging , and burns ‘ possibly caused by electrical current . ’ |
| 6 | The Chinese , who used ivory for elaborately carved handles and vessels as early as the Shang dynasty and in later times used it for a wide variety of personal items such as brush pots , wrist-rests , boxes , seals , snuff boxes and fans , had increasingly to import the material as the elephant herds in the southern provinces diminished . |
| 7 | But there were plenty of beautiful and recognisable faces to be seen amongst the anonymous , but none-the-less powerful , fashion editors , still enough buying power in this room alone to rock empires , even if no house made a profit from the couture but rather used it for a loss-leading advertisement and a mark of prestige . |
| 8 | The Department of Transportation in Maryland , for example , used it for an interactive touch-screen system providing tourists with video , textual , graphical and audio information about the city and its transport network . |
| 9 | We tried it for a whole year . |
| 10 | It looked as if the builder had started off with the plans of a Tudor manor house , swapped them for an Early English cathedral in mid-storey , and then suffered a total loss of confidence and tried to convert it into a Dutch barn . |
| 11 | He studied her for a long time , then reached out and touched a wet strand of her hair . |
| 12 | Vitor studied her for a long , piercing moment . |
| 13 | Someone interviewed her for an Italian magazine — they 're doing a piece about her family , or so she says . |
| 14 | Designed to counteract poor visibility on murky winter afternoons , it had been used in Scotland and by the visiting South Africans in 1924 before Arsenal adopted it for a public trial match three years later . |
| 15 | Gordon Macpherson 's Prosen , a long arch of sound , eerie music from distant mountains with the instruments imitating and overlapping in echo effect , taught the ear to listen and prepared us for a fresh hearing of Tchaikovsky 's Souvenir de Florence , ravishing but not cloying , spinning to a close in the exacting fugue which made the composer laugh when he first played it . |
| 16 | I waited until the tea was ready then joined them for a warming meal of steak and kidney pudding , followed by a very hot mug of tea into which was placed a measure of Navy rum . |
| 17 | My father went mad and I think he actually hated me for a short while . |
| 18 | Eventually we worked out where the line had been and followed it for a short way up to a demolished bridge . |
| 19 | Charles pressed it for a long time . |
| 20 | In the end she had taken the brooch back to the shop and exchanged it for a plain silver cross on a chain . |
| 21 | Well I stuck it for a long time , Di went to sleep and I got out and I had a look and I , the only thing that I could see , and it was two o'clock , half past two this morning , er the er the one side of the big house over there was full of lights , they had all the lights on and there were two cars outside with their lights on . |
| 22 | Anabelle watched him for a long while , but he did n't twitch a muscle . |
| 23 | She told magistrates that she had been into town and was late getting the car back home to her parents who needed it for an important appointment . |
| 24 | The task of implementing this change of policy fell on Roger Brown , then editor in succession to Ralph Gee , who had been responsible for the printing of the paper for many years and edited it for a short period . |
| 25 | We could hear the V2s thudding down onto London in the far distance , but the sound came over as a far-off double bang , which puzzled us for a long time until someone told us what it was . |
| 26 | Ritschl , by now increasingly confident of his protege 's abilities , recommended him for a vacant chair of classics at the University of Basle in Switzerland . |
| 27 | Having had the good fortune to fall in with Gabriel outside Cat 's Coffee Shop as she was on her way home , he had seized his chance and asked her for an early supper . |
| 28 | A 16-YEAR-OLD boy who fired a catapult at a low-flying Sri Lankan air force helicopter yesterday was wounded when the copter 's gunner mistook him for a Tamil terrorist and shot back at him . |
| 29 | This was not an opinion , simply the Catholic moral teaching , he said at the funeral of Henry Babbington , shot dead on Wednesday by IRA men who mistook him for a loyalist terrorist . |
| 30 | Instead Barclays asked him for an extra £15 commission on his traveller 's cheques . |