Example sentences of "and [noun] [vb past] [pers pn] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was late in the afternoon when we arrived , and Taylor took me for a drive through the town , which apart from the centre had been badly damaged . |
| 2 | His occupancy lasted until 1 761 , when he sold it to another local clothier , John Cox , in whose family it remained until 1818 when Elizabeth and William leased it for seven years to the partnership of John Cox and Weston Hicks . |
| 3 | In 1960 his great rivals , Ladbrokes , went into the football business , and Hill sued them for infringement of the copyright in his coupon . |
| 4 | From the beginning she had been angered at having to take the girl in , for Lavender had been lovely , and Liti detested her for it . |
| 5 | ‘ Oh , dear , you do n't want to hear my stories , ’ he would say when Benny and Eve plagued him for some information . |
| 6 | ‘ I think it 's fine , ’ Alina said , and Pete watched her for a moment longer , almost as if he was checking her score on a test . |
| 7 | His lips twisted in scorn , and Lissa hated him for that look . |
| 8 | Mallachy , remembering the story they 'd concocted , gave Rory a piece of paper which contained ( he said ) a ‘ list of the addresses ’ , and Rory thanked him for his trouble . |
| 9 | I remember when I lost a fountain-pen Mummy and Daddy gave me for Christmas : I prayed and prayed , and I never found it . ’ |
| 10 | Nobody used the shed , and Conradin took it for his own . |
| 11 | We exchanged the necessary platitudes and i thanked her for her care . |
| 12 | He helped Calamy list the ejectees of 1662 , and Strype thanked him for supplying transcripts . |
| 13 | So when they held dinner-parties Scarlet skimped on the smoked salmon , and Brian rebuked her for her graceless parsimony . |
| 14 | That Shirley and Gareth sent me for Christmas . |
| 15 | That Shirley and Gareth sent me for Christmas |
| 16 | I thought he and you , both of you , had deceived me about your relationship — the way Suzanna and Raich deceived me for a time . |
| 17 | The fieldhands used them ; animals sometimes broke into them ; and lovers used them for trysts . |
| 18 | The Campbells were waiting to greet him in the hall , and Elizabeth saw him for the first time . |
| 19 | Neil Kinnock and others pressed her for a while about Nigel Lawson 's resignation . |
| 20 | The quarrel between faith and unbelief touched him for the first time and unsettled his mind . |
| 21 | I broke it , and John had it for years and years . |
| 22 | And Adrian bought me for my birthday erm |
| 23 | The Levant Company claimed the right to these dues , but both Wyche and Crowe claimed them for the Crown , and Charles I had provided further occasion for dispute between all three parties by formally alienating them to Crowe in 1636 , though the latter , in return for compensating payments by the company , waived his right until his arrival in Constantinople in October 1638 . |
| 24 | And Sinatra punished him for the rest of his life . |