Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] for [art] [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 | She lashed the class with scorn and ridicule and punished them for the nasty thoughts in her own mind . |
| 5 | His eyes were ice-bright , and pierced her like twin blades as he regarded her for a long moment . |
| 6 | Britain 's golden boy who lost his shine when newcomer David Grindley beat him for the final place in today 's 400 metres final is ready to take a year off from the track if it means he can beat the trouble . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | We tried it for a whole year . |
| 12 | Unfortunately , for example , he believed certain things which were wrong ( such as the tenets of Unitarianism ) , and he believed them for the wrong reasons ( such as the theistic proofs ) . |
| 13 | I had each Wednesday afternoon off from Russell 's and he enroled me , secretly , into his school for lessons with his normal classes , He and his wife held a weekly open house and these cramming sessions prepared me for the coming Halton entrance examination . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Fraulein Winkelmann told him for the Good God 's sake to get the papers fast , and Bruno went away and came back and pointed the Luger yet again . |
| 16 | He studied her for a long time , then reached out and touched a wet strand of her hair . |
| 17 | Vitor studied her for a long , piercing moment . |
| 18 | … nothing prepared her for the angry letter she received from the Duke of Edinburgh soon afterwards . |
| 19 | ‘ You dropped him for the Prime Minister . ’ |
| 20 | Someone interviewed her for an Italian magazine — they 're doing a piece about her family , or so she says . |
| 21 | It was an experience which steeled him for the future task of having as many as a dozen major country houses under construction in any one year . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Nothing , however , quite prepared us for the momentous last months of this decade . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | My father went mad and I think he actually hated me for a short while . |
| 27 | I was not proposing to ask her about her relationship , or lack of it , with Edward VIII and Mrs Simpson , or to what degree she blamed them for the unexpected and , at the time , unwelcome change in her life . |
| 28 | A consultant visiting her sick child at home , blamed her for the terrible housing conditions where she lived . |
| 29 | Eventually we worked out where the line had been and followed it for a short way up to a demolished bridge . |
| 30 | Charles pressed it for a long time . |