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Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	A decade ago , Kung Fu martial arts films were banned by Zambian cinemas after Kaunda attacked them for encouraging violence amongst youths .
2	The staff and right leg propelled me for forty yards until the leg gave way and the injured one , without a thought , took the strain and I ended up on my hands and knees ranting and raving .
3	He asked me for 50,000 francs for Félix .
4	No one asked me for any comment .
5	‘ Yes Dad , she asked me for some help . ’
6	They asked me for more money .
7	So he sold them for four X.
8	I sold them for fifteen pounds .
9	Mr Singleton sold them for two pounds each .
10	‘ They acted as judge and jury and suspended me for ten weeks without a trial .
11	It achieved temperatures over a million degrees and sustained them for several milliseconds .
12	Sixty pound fifty it cost me for six months !
13	I just knew I was inspired when I proposed you for this job here , that it would come back to me in some incredible way .
14	So what did she say about the money when you tried her for less money ?
15	For Prothero is the demon-king of the Poundian pantomime , ever since Pound cast him for this role by printing , at the end of his essay on De Gourmont — originally in the Little Review , then in Instigations ( 1920 ) — the letter which Prothero wrote him in October 1914 :
16	And she scolded him for frightening children Adam , six , Louise , four , and two-year-old Carl .
17	The Russian official recently so upset his domestic association that they suspended him for two months , although UEFA insist : ‘ He 's still one of the best referees in Europe and the right man for the job . ’
18	The Russian official recently so upset his domestic association that they suspended him for two months , although UEFA insist : ‘ He 's still one of the best referees in Europe and the right man for the job . ’
19	‘ Players are overpaid , pampered prima donnas , ’ he says , with a bluntness once very familiar to League secretary Alan Hardaker who in 1970 suspended him for ten weeks .
20	So when we set out to develop our new Panasonic brand AT compatible personal computer , we designed it for maximum versatility .
21	Those patients with a good postoperative result ‘ maintained it for many years , gained occupationally and vocationally , were pleased with the results of the operation , and were willing to recommend it to others ’ .
22	I used it for New Blues and almost all of Summer Song and perhaps the solo on Rubina 's Blue Sky Happiness .
23	UN relief flights to Juba — known as " Operation Lifeline Sudan " — were halted temporarily on July 21 , after Sudanese government troops had boarded a UN plane and used it for one week to transport troops and military equipment .
24	I pointed out that the ground was once part of Tip Farm and that on rainy days Bob Crudge still used it for artificial insemination .
25	The German academics very prudently ignored him for forty years ; but lately , to the disgrace of Germany , he has been discovered by an English critic .
26	He studied her for several seconds , as if baffled .
27	It has now been decided to write to Rangers asking for their views on statements attributed to the three men since Ferguson 's club dropped him for disciplinary reasons , after which it came to light that Murray had spoken to United 's manager/chairman , Jim Mclean , about buying the Scotland internationalist .
28	Stephane Grappelli , the renowned jazz violinist , employed English agents who booked him for certain concerts .
29	I remember , one bloke , mind-reader he was — Steenie booked him for some Variety bill , forget where it was now .
30	One of his wins had qualified him for the National so when he came up for sale at Doncaster , Kempton secured him for 2,000 guineas on behalf of two of his owners who were keen to have a runner in the race .