Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pers pn] for [art] " in BNC.
Previous page Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 31 | She had n't told him much except that she did not like her neighbour Fireman Mosse and blamed him for the death of his wife . |
| 32 | ‘ Before training , Barry called a meeting and said the chairman had accused us of being greedy bastards and blamed us for the fine . |
| 33 | Eventually we worked out where the line had been and followed it for a short way up to a demolished bridge . |
| 34 | The first indication that anything was wrong came three months after I had let the tank up and stocked it for the first time . |
| 35 | The attendants folded the clothes and exchanged them for a token , before placing them upon tiers of racks . |
| 36 | In the end she had taken the brooch back to the shop and exchanged it for a plain silver cross on a chain . |
| 37 | When they reached the next chamber he extinguished it and exchanged it for the torch . |
| 38 | The task of implementing this change of policy fell on Roger Brown , then editor in succession to Ralph Gee , who had been responsible for the printing of the paper for many years and edited it for a short period . |
| 39 | Sheppard modelled the statue in 1911–12 and exhibited it for the first time in 1914 . |
| 40 | I stood and watched them for a while , training my binoculars on them and seeming , now and again in the shifting images of light , to discern structures around them . |
| 41 | Guido smiled , lifting one eyebrow , and watched her for a moment . |
| 42 | I lay on my back and watched it for a second , then got up and ran after her as fast as I could , again just because I knew I could n't catch her . |
| 43 | The regime thus charged him with damage of government property and jailed him for a few months until he was released under a general amnesty . |
| 44 | She held my hand steady to bring the cigarette to the flame and kept it for a few seconds longer than she had to . |
| 45 | He multiplied the clones in the glasshouse and screened them for a variety of characters ( Fig. 16.3 ) . |
| 46 | Mr Wilbraham , together with one of the Tace managers Don Hammond ( managing director , components ) , and James Carr ( now finance director ) stepped in and acquired them for a consideration of £4m . |
| 47 | as he half knew , he would be asked to acquiesce in some lunatic scheme for pulling Tristram out of trouble , and saw her for a moment from a position of detachment : a tall young woman looking younger than her twenty-nine years . |
| 48 | After a time , his doctor friend had seen enough of his extremity and took him for a drink in the airport bar . |
| 49 | Yesterday , two Norfolk men who kidnapped a prime suspect and took him for a ride were sent to prison for five years and apparently the suspect did not even get a police caution . |
| 50 | On another occasion his reference to the duty of the Old Testament prophets to denounce God 's judgements to the King and Court was reported to James II , who sent for him and reproached him for the controversial bitterness with which he had spoken . |
| 51 | Also a photo of all the officers of Walsall that I saw in a second hand shop and I went and bought it for a few pence . |
| 52 | While half of her brain hated and despised them for the job they were doing , the other half acknowledged that at least part of her present mission was to buy newspapers and read what was said . |
| 53 | She sat and rocked him for a while until he felt all right again and then went upstairs and dressed herself in a low-backed , jade green jumpsuit and gold pumps and gold hoop ear-rings , and felt exotic . |
| 54 | De Valois saw it and accepted it for the repertory . |
| 55 | She was so proud of herself for getting that out , grinning wildly at the other woman , that Ruth could n't subject her to more and left them for the tennis courts while they unpacked the dusty Seat that seemed to be packed to the gunnels with baskets of clothes and packages . |
| 56 | She poured the coffee black , and left it for the three of them to add milk and sugar . |
| 57 | We selected some of our favourites and snapped them for the magazine |
| 58 | The selectors kept faith and picked him for the first Test at Edgbaston , where he bowled 42 overs without trouble , taking four wickets in his maiden Test , which England won , fairly comfortably , but 100 runs . |
| 59 | He was supported by a most devoted wife who looked after him for many years until , late in his life , he rejected and abandoned her for a younger woman . |
| 60 | He slammed the full magazine into the weapon and gripped it for a moment , the veins in his temple throbbing angrily . |