Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Christopher Gill ( Member for Ludlow and a Midlands businessman ) , as has been mentioned in Chapter 6 , has concerned himself for a long time with what were once seen to be obscure constitutional issues of subsidiarity . |
| 2 | Dad 's a , dad 's just nominated you for the big in the campus . |
| 3 | ‘ First , my miserable Yankee friend , the good Brigadeführer Farber has recommended you for an immediate Iron Cross First Class which , from what he says , you deserve . ’ |
| 4 | After it had trapped him for the third time , he ordered all the cages to be thrown into the sea . |
| 5 | Yvonne Paul whose The Glamour Game ( W H Allen , £2.95 ) tells all about the Glamour Biz sent me in the blouse off her back , drenched in exotic perfume , as a ‘ thank-you ’ after I 'd interviewed her for the Daily Mail and mentioned how much I liked her get-up . |
| 6 | Guido 's won it for the past two years and he 's absolutely desperate to get a hat trick — though some of his rivals are equally desperate to see that he does n't . ’ |
| 7 | Which is a bit different and I 'd like to see it , that 's just one of my things , but again when you 're in , going into retirement I think you 've got to think about this , I mean I went , nobody twisted my arm , I went into that situation and I 've enjoyed it for a great many years , but now I 'm thinking I 'd , before I , it 's too late I want to have a , a l a fling in autumn as it were . |
| 8 | Our fathers disciplined us for a little while as they thought best ; but God disciplines us for our good , that we may share in his holiness . |
| 9 | I am pleased to have the opportunity to raise this subject which has interested me for a long time . |
| 10 | It has n't prepared me for the outside world ; all it 's done is given me an awareness of myself . |
| 11 | Nothing had prepared me for the overwhelming architectural beauty of Salamanca , and in particular for the grandeur of the university , the oldest in Spain and one of the oldest in Europe , with its noble façade in plateresque style . |
| 12 | Your father , and Elizabeth and the others , are very worried about you , because you have not visited them for a long time . |
| 13 | Others who were less impressed by what they knew about Law were surprised by what they discovered of his actual abilities , perhaps because his anonymity had prepared them for the worst . |
| 14 | Nothing in the three villagers ' long but sheltered past could have prepared them for the horrendous sight that met their eyes . |
| 15 | This is me , I goes , I goes I 'll let it slip this time cos you have n't seen me for a few weeks . |
| 16 | Have n't seen them for a long time . |
| 17 | ‘ You do n't get over disliking someone simply because you have n't seen them for a long time . ’ |
| 18 | Well say hello to them for us cos we have n't seen them for a long time . |
| 19 | In the life she led it would have been all too easy to succumb to the myriad temptations on offer , but she had seen them for the shallow , worthless things they were , and valued her self-respect too highly to accept dross when she knew she must seek for gold . |
| 20 | You look at the skill you did n't know you had , put a label on it and think : ‘ Yes I do do that ’ , whereas when you first walk in you think you 've done nothing for the last 18 years . |
| 21 | The first was that , with the passage in 1832 of the Reform Bill came the full realisation that parliamentary reform had done nothing for the emergent working class , except to isolate it . |
| 22 | All shale and weeds and winds that picked up speed as they swooped in off the ocean , this strip of barren land prepared you for the final desolation of the Crumbles . |
| 23 | ‘ You 've had everything and everyone your way from much too young , and it has n't prepared you for the big , wide world . |
| 24 | Have n't seen you for a long time have you ? |
| 25 | Oh here 's another dog I think oh it 's Judy 's , not it 's not hello , have n't seen you for a long time , hello , have n't seen her for a long time , morning , good morning oh she 's a sweetie is n't she ? forgotten her name come and say hello , I have n't seen you for ages , so him once on the , good morning . |
| 26 | Brody , for example , has written something for the first issue . ’ |
| 27 | Nothing on the exterior , however , prepared one for the stunning exhibition of color , texture , and mural art in the interior , features that constituted a major step in an architectural revolution that was most fully developed in the Century of Progress Exposition in Chicago ( 1933–74 ) . |
| 28 | It had prepared her for the coming meeting when she would be alone at last with the youth who was King of England ; the youth she loved … |
| 29 | But nothing had prepared her for the angry letter she received from the Duke of Edinburgh , says Morton . |
| 30 | But nothing had prepared her for the monumental size and sheer glamour of the building . |