Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I am going to miss is the opportunity to pontificate in peace , without let or hindrance , as Punch has let me do for eight years . |
| 2 | I had had nothing to read for three months , and now that we had some time to ourselves reading was a good way of distracting myself from the immediacies of life around me . |
| 3 | And it also managed to chip some of the woodwork , curious to think that I was offered as war damage compensation five pounds to re-case the piano , you could n't of had it repolished for five pounds , but thinking was working class people should n't have pianos , I 'm certain that was at the back of , of the gentleman whose job it was to evaluate war damage , he certainly raised his eyebrows every time we told him , what either a piece of furniture or crockery or cutlery which had been destroyed had cost and he was so foolish after er the house had been almost flattened as de demand bills as proof of evidence that your figures were correct |
| 4 | Right , so it 's twenty gallons per minute times , let's say you 've got it going for ten minutes , ten mins and the per minutes and the minutes cancel out and the answer comes in gallons then . |
| 5 | Things are going to be different , and you 've only got yourself to blame for that , have n't you ? ’ |
| 6 | Apart from some salty garlic bread , neither of them had had anything to eat for some hours beforehand so despite the fact that the party was hardly properly underway yet , they were both feeling the effects of the drink . |
| 7 | Organizations operating in the north of the country spoke of recruiting seasonal workers from amongst people who had contacted them looking for permanent positions . |
| 8 | Jay had never known it to work for more than weeks . |
| 9 | I think I had not heard him cry for six years . |
| 10 | Greed has sometimes led him to trade for two licensed dealers at once . |
| 11 | No wonder the seventh morning with its seventh sun had left me craving for Transylvanian dissolution . |
| 12 | He places the blame squarely at the door of social scientists , whose theories have directed them to look for this pattern in pre-industrial and non-industrial societies . |
| 13 | In the first , a bill is passed which allows for certain actions to be taken , such as the establishment of a space agency , the construction of a national highway system , the provision of agricultural price supports , and so on . |
| 14 | Up to now , I would have directed anyone looking for these works , especially as played on ‘ period ’ instruments , to the Hyperion set by the London Fortepiano Trio ( ) . |
| 15 | The difference was that those other poor girls had allowed themselves to fall for this boyish charm , whereas Shelley was forewarned , and proof against those smiling black eyes . |
| 16 | Er I 've always er , I do n't think I e I b th whenever I 've been unhappy with work it 's been work that I 've allowed myself to do for ulterior motives , for money or whatever I m The things I 've done er even th the things that have been unsuccessful th if I 've wanted to do them , I 've been able to live with that . |
| 17 | There 's no way you could have kept him hidden for this long , and Moshe-Rabaan would have noticed any excess oxygen usage , so he 's a simularity , right ? ’ |
| 18 | He 'd kept it hidden for fifty years . |
| 19 | Caro said she 'd paid you rent for six months . |