Example sentences of "that [pron] [vb past] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Imagine my amazement when , on my first day in the new set-up , I found that everyone fought for attention by dramatizing every event . |
| 2 | Medical confidentiality you 're you 're just sitting there with bloody a private conversation we that I went for treatment with my doctor , and and the recommendations that she 's given me in , well well what 's the point er what er what 's going on ? |
| 3 | We had a succession of God-awful nannies we could n't afford — Clemence 's books had n't started to sell at that point — but the upshot was that I left for work late , came home early . |
| 4 | ‘ That I did for Mr Lambert , ’ but the rebuff was cancelled as he brushed her fingers using the back of his hand . |
| 5 | the farm yard set for Katie but then , cos I have n't got her so much , so I thought we , she , I do n't think she 'd be into police , I thought if I bought police and that was dearer and the amount that I bought for Ben and Charlotte |
| 6 | droopy draws the one that I wanted for ages droopy draws . |
| 7 | When the author of the Life of Edward the Confessor says that he trusted the cause of God to his bishops , and ordered secular judges to act fairly , so that honesty could have royal support and evil its just condemnation , this may be an indication that someone did for Edward what Wulfstan had done for Æthelred and Cnut . |
| 8 | She did nothing much about it — Eismark was still just somebody in shipping , not a politician — and it was only when he came onto the Secretariat that she asked for money to do some more work about it . ’ |
| 9 | He gazed at her in silence that she took for acceptance . |
| 10 | She says that she screamed for help — another two minutes and the twins would have died because of all the smoke and flames . |
| 11 | Capsules that she had for years . |
| 12 | Victoria was an extremely pretty young woman , and it was obvious that she cared for Miguel Rafaelo . |
| 13 | The handful of stories that she wrote for children were remarkable for their strong sense of place and feeling for landscapes she had never seen . |
| 14 | ’ In the play there is the prostitute character who represents Suzannah in the sense that she modeled for Artemesia 's painting ; She is also a hint at Tassi 's own murky past — he was tried for attempting to murder his wife ( a prostitute'- proof of his duplicity since he would not have been able to marry Artemesia under any circumstance . |
| 15 | He slammed his body into hers , bending her back , kissing her so hard that she fought for breath . |
| 16 | When she tells us that she left for work , we assume that she has dressed for the outside world . |
| 17 | And I honestly think that was the only reason that she stopped for Pete . |
| 18 | Like Julian , who tells us that she wrestled for years with the problem of sin , Luther and St Teresa both struggled for some twenty years with a paralysing sense of their own sinfulness . |
| 19 | The author also points out that her subject had almost no sense of humour or capacity for original thought , that she thirsted for power , and that ‘ Righteousness was what Annie earnestly desired for others … she felt no lack of it herself . ’ |
| 20 | See these socks that she bought for Jade |
| 21 | When was it that you left for Naples ? ’ |
| 22 | I enclose the completed form that you mentioned for hire of the school classroom for Parish Council meetings . |
| 23 | Now that was seven ninety nine that you bought for Rosemary . |
| 24 | For example , we have found that we can make good businesses by selling services that we developed for use in our own company . |
| 25 | I did n't know at that time what the content of the exhibition was because Sarah who organised it all had to write to lots of people and arrange the loans and you know it is fairly recently that we discovered for example the tate would lend , their pictures because its very rare that they do , erm , and , so we thought the next best thing , when I discovered the change of dates would be to have slides of the pictures that Sue was using , but erm oh dear then wonderful that Sue was using a another book and this term allocated and I was n't able to get the slides she picked , it was my fault that they 're not on slide due to the amount of time that we had to do this . |
| 26 | Although it looked completely different , it was this truck that gave me the concept for ‘ MiniMag ’ , the 27ft ( 8m ) articulated truck that we used for Mrs Thatcher 's open-air meetings in the 1987 election . |
| 27 | The same sort of reasoning about conjugation that we used for edges shows that we can use this process to restore all the corners , though we do disturb the edges . |
| 28 | We decided to use the same system that we used for hospitals , making referrals to team leaders in the same way that we do to consultants . |
| 29 | One way is to use two factors , rather in the way that we did for documents , and these two factors will be called ‘ participation ’ and ‘ control ’ . |
| 30 | This is particularly true , and actually is what I 'm leading to in this story is that three years later , when Robert Priest hit Esquire two years later , the Rolling Stone look was supplanted by the Esquire look in terms of popular design and imagination , and I remember people said to me ‘ well Roger what are you going to do , your style is out of date ’ and my reaction to this was ‘ well , hold on a second , it 's not my style for one , and number two this is just traditional style , this was never intended to be a trend ’ , and fortunately it 's sort of gone — right now it 's back — so Rolling Stone even picked up the format that , you know , the Morris–Jenson typeface that we did for headline and stuff , and it 's back in there . |