Example sentences of "[vb past] for [pers pn] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fall , identified for so long with a sweet , sad nostalgia , a magnificence of gold and crimson under startling blue skies , became for us a nightmare . |
| 2 | I remember little of my stay in the intensive care unit , but I am told they cared for me every second of the night and day . |
| 3 | Well hardly out of the blue , they asked for it a week ago . |
| 4 | He provided for us the necessities of life — food , shelter , clothing . |
| 5 | It posed for them the question , ‘ Are we still the people of God ? ’ |
| 6 | I think that 's a load of shit , half of his stuff , I mean they 're , they 're good reproductions , tin of Heinz Bake Beans but any monkey can fucking do that charge fifty grand for it or whatever they charged for it The ones I 've always liked is erm , I du n no if you 've ever seen any , Ed , Edward Lanzear used to paint a lot of er Queen Victoria used to do er animal paintings . |
| 7 | No one was within earshot , they were miles from anywhere , it seemed , and even if she jumped in the river and swam for it the chance that she would outmanoeuvre him in the water was slim . |
| 8 | It died for me the moment I found Mason in her bed . ’ |
| 9 | She felt sorry for him once more ; she felt for him the compassion of an older sister , and at that point she did something quite unpremeditated : as she kept on walking , she turned her head back towards him , smiled and lifted her right arm out in the air , easily , flowingly , as if she were tossing a brightly coloured ball . |
| 10 | It represented for her the opportunity to move from a life of manual labour to a life of intellectual labour . |
| 11 | He waited for me every year — we came back for about six years , until I was ready to be sent to finishing school . |
| 12 | Roberto waited for him every morning and they practised putting before playing their practice rounds together . |
| 13 | She was a nun at Hampole Priory before adopting the life of a recluse at East Layton near Richmond in 1348 when Rolle wrote for her a treatise known as The Form of Living which was designed as both programme for , and illumination of , the solitary life-style that she had adopted . |
| 14 | They were shown round by a Père Obein whose calm wisdom and urbanity so impressed them that he remained for them a touchstone of good sense . |
| 15 | I conceive of Kant as one saddened by Hume 's cold logic that destroyed for him the laws of causation in the physical world . |