Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Karen crawled into a sleeping bag at three o'clock , having last seen Jessica deep in conversation with a blonde-haired willowy type with beard and pipe who had pursued her earnestly for several hours . |
| 2 | ‘ Then I do hope your devotion to duty has n't made you late for some pressing engagement , ’ he added suavely . |
| 3 | ‘ Have you written anything else for other departments ? ’ he asked . |
| 4 | She did not immediately come back with an answer , but looked at him steadily for some seconds before she said , ‘ That 's why you think you 've got me here for good , is n't it , Father ? |
| 5 | I 've got one here for ninety five , is that right ? |
| 6 | Had it not been his solicitors the Inland Revenue would have got him yesterday for unpaid tax bills , but its petition was dismissed automatically once the High Court heard that a bankruptcy order had already been made . |
| 7 | The 1992 Coca-Cola International was awarded World Cup status for the second consecutive year , and organiser Desi McHenry was offered it again for this year if he could change the date , something he was unfortunately unable to do . |
| 8 | He must have towed it here for further investigation . |
| 9 | She should have been more concerned , more anxious to know what he had to confide , since he had invited her here for that very purpose . |
| 10 | I had known them now for some time and smiled at the thought of their good company . |
| 11 | You may have known someone else for twenty years and yet he will never be more than a casual acquaintance . |
| 12 | Anthony Morris , QC , told Manchester Crown Court that Mr Foster died because he had the ‘ misfortune ’ to have been at the same secondary school as the gunman and had known him well for four years . |
| 13 | She had obviously forgiven him now for all those cruel but necessary things he had said when he dropped her the year before . |
| 14 | Her general practitioner had at one time treated her unsuccessfully for this with an antidepressant . |
| 15 | Mine has served me well for many years . |
| 16 | He had wanted her only for one night . |
| 17 | They head 600 volunteers who have already put themselves forward for 200 new Government teams which will be checking on classroom standards after September , 1993 . |
| 18 | Looking into her great eyes , their blue so dark that it was almost black , he was uncomfortably aware that having Miss Sally-Anne McAllister in the house was a most disturbing influence on a man who had not only denied himself sexually for some years , but who had rarely mixed with young women at all since he had left the army . |
| 19 | The fact is that for most children maths has been taught badly or rather they have learnt it badly for one reason or another , so there is a need for , for an improvement or a change , so the idea that if children can understand something this will help them to remember it or to make it more real to them , this does seem to be a shift over the last generation . |