Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pron] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1844 his father and younger brother died : his mother devoted her life thereafter to John and shared his home for twenty years . |
| 2 | Once Smith finally began to criticise union influence in the party and voiced his preference for an electoral college composed solely of MPs and individual members , Gould penned a letter to the Guardian promising to strengthen rather than loosen union links . |
| 3 | and we enjoyed it so much , we went and asked my mother for some more money , we stayed another week and then when we got back to London er Mrs said I think we better go , you know , get away from London in |
| 4 | Rich women with Chanel bags rested their weary shopping feet and met their friends for a drink . |
| 5 | Wexford closed the books and emptied his tankard for the third time . |
| 6 | On the day after Aquino 's announcement it was reported that 28 congressmen and 22 governors had broken with the LDP and announced their support for Ramos . |
| 7 | Mathers stood up and checked his pockets for car keys and cigarettes . |
| 8 | He set his autopilot for the descent and checked his charts for Moscow 's Sheremetyevo Airport . |
| 9 | Husband Charles , 43 , was upset when Di picked a foreign car and made her pay for it herself . |
| 10 | She developed in the chief inspector the emotional equivalent of a skin rash , and made her wish for nothing better than to discover Christine was the ‘ friend ’ her father had met on Hampstead Heath . |
| 11 | Early in his career he was thought of primarily as a left-arm spinner , and made his debut for Barbados in 1941–2 as such . |
| 12 | He played for Surrey second XI at 20 and made his debut for the first XI in 1947 , when he played five matches . |
| 13 | Kallicharran , who turned 43 in March , has been playing club cricket for Gloucester City this season , and made his debut for his new county on August 5 against Devon , the leaders of the Western Division of the Minor Counties championship . |
| 14 | Born on 12 April , 1941 , the only son of an electricity board worker , he was snapped up by his local club West Ham , and made his debut for them as a 17-year-old against Manchester United in 1958 . |
| 15 | He had been a scholar at Winchester and at Magdalen , where he gained a First in Law and got his Blue for cricket . |
| 16 | Springsteen finished the mince and inspected his whiskers for any he 'd missed . |
| 17 | William Joyce did the same , without such assistance , and entered his name for Battersea Polytechnic , where he proposed to study for the intermediate examination of the London University BSc degree . |
| 18 | He was impressive in his Premier League debut against Nottingham Forest and retained his place for the 1–1 draw with Sheffield Wednesday . |
| 19 | Michael Dods replaced Appleson and retained his place for the plate match with New Zealand , for which , happily , there was some cloud cover from the blazing sun . |
| 20 | He looked up and stopped his hammering for a moment . |
| 21 | When Chapman called at Jack 's house for his consent , the player demanded various concessions and phoned his father for advice . |
| 22 | Following Bush 's victory , Atwater became chairman of the RNC and maintained his reputation for uncompromising aggression with a series of attacks upon Democrat leaders in Congress . |
| 23 | She saw her tutor 's enquiring look and dismissed her benefactor for the moment . |
| 24 | Tony 's mother sounds English to me and promised me tickets for next years FA Cup final . |
| 25 | Jordi was waiting for me outside after I had a bath and changed my clothes for dinner . |
| 26 | This climate has made me conservative and changed my plans for growing the business . ’ |
| 27 | Cromer cherished the thought that he ‘ remained more or less hidden [ and ] pulled the strings ’ , and proclaimed his contempt for publicity ; yet it was he of whom the fellahin sang as they laboured at their immemorial tasks . |
| 28 | However , one of my many visitors saw it and told Barry Cockcroft , the gentleman who produced and directed my film for Yorkshire Television . |
| 29 | At the end of the evening Sanctuary went on stage and played their song for John . |
| 30 | Rory secured her hair with a heavily jewelled clasp and studied her reflection for a moment before giving a little nod . |