Example sentences of "[vb past] for [pers pn] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the same way , they took care to spend no more time together than the daily round of school life made appropriate , but the simple knowledge that there was now one person in the small , enclosed community who cared for him healed Richard 's wounded spirit . |
| 2 | Whenever an opportunity arose for him to spike evidence or arguments favourable to the defence , he did not hesitate to do so , even at one choleric moment telling Nicky not to be stupider than he was ; and his summing-up was a summing-up for the prosecution . |
| 3 | They were the people who were already ‘ suffering greatly from having some 57,000 boat people there and more and more and more would come when the season came for them to leave Vietnam . ’ |
| 4 | Three days after the French were released Joelle Kauffman arranged for me to see Normandin and I flew to Paris , with Mary , to see him . |
| 5 | The Ballet Club paid a second visit to Johannesburg in July 1944 , and John wrote to Hanns , exclaiming jubilantly that ‘ We arranged for me to have meals at the Carlton , so I have been dining in style this week ! ’ |
| 6 | Roquelaure arranged for him to visit DGSE headquarters on the boulevard Berthier ring road . |
| 7 | Aged fourteen , he was apprenticed to Galloway & Sons , a London engineering firm : when it failed , Faraday arranged for him to join Nasmyth & Gaskell at Patricroft , near Manchester . |
| 8 | Three years later , in 1638 , Laud arranged for him to become Rector of Uppingham , in Rutland , and a chaplain to King Charles I. It was at this time that Taylor made his first marriage , to the sister of one of his Cambridge pupils . ’ |
| 9 | A little later this Mexican boy who worked for us took Russell 's horse around to the stable . |
| 10 | ‘ The time was right before the season started for us to part company and I 've never regretted it and neither have Norwich . |