Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway , I 'd been very busy the day before and Doreen had irritated me for other reasons . |
| 2 | And why not have placed them for safe keeping in a pocket , satchel or valise ? |
| 3 | More than a hundred victims have now approached him for legal advice and doctors are still seeing new cases six weeks after chryptosporidium was first identified in the Farmoor reservoir . |
| 4 | I can not believe so many people have attacked her for petty reasons , like here lack of smiling . |
| 5 | Mandy had warned her that storms came up fast on the lake , but nothing could have prepared her for blue skies being annihilated by black storm-clouds in just a matter of minutes . |
| 6 | Cecilia has done well — she is now on a polytechnic degree course — but nothing in her years in care prepared her for independent living . |
| 7 | I have n't seen her for bloody ages . |
| 8 | Of course it was not certain either that Zoser had done it or that , if he had done it , he had done it for sectarian reasons . |
| 9 | I still have n't forgiven you for bloody book antics of a |
| 10 | Some people I know have used them for departmental budgets , but quite how they do that I do n't know . |
| 11 | Well and we 've used it for Well answer is yes but I 'm you know , it 's making sure you get the business . |
| 12 | Just over half of the teachers claiming to have seen the booklet said they had used it for in-service training in their school . |
| 13 | Sir Leon extended early parole to many more short-sentence prisoners and virtually abolished it for long-term offenders convicted on drugs , sex , arson , and violence charges . |
| 14 | The paper owner , the local council , had bought it for eventual use as a road , but had no immediate use for it . |
| 15 | The Brazilians are producing lapachol for oral administration as part of a drug therapy for cancer , and the authorities have approved it for clinical trials in humans . |
| 16 | In 1914 he became a master at Eton College , where he remained during World War I , a heart murmur having disqualified him for military service . |
| 17 | She has since packed it for other tours . |
| 18 | He fixed his mind on a rule his father had given him for public speaking : Get a vague plan and then say anything that comes into your head . |
| 19 | Even so , striking on or soon after January 15th would help Mr Bush underline , for the benefit of critics at home and abroad , the clear legal authority the UN has given him for military action . |
| 20 | A spokesman for the I R A said its active service unit had tragically mistaken them for British soldiers . |
| 21 | Worldwide governments had blown it for different reasons . |