Example sentences of "the [noun] [vb past] [pers pn] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two owners were aged 84 and 71 and , after the chewing incident , the RSPCA swapped it for a smaller dog . |
| 2 | Sister Eillen Regan , from the board of education of the Roman Catholic archdiocese of San Francisco , says the board shunned it for two reasons : ‘ It treats nuclear war as survivable and implies nuclear war is a political option ’ . |
| 3 | The Board dismissed him for allegedly failing in his duties to teach junior doctors . |
| 4 | The board dismissed him for ‘ gross misconduct and gross professional negligence ’ and is still considering legal steps to recover the cash . |
| 5 | But the Germans admired them for their toughness and energy and in 1898 persuaded Britain , which then ran Bougainville , to swap the island for some German possessions elsewhere in the Pacific . |
| 6 | The mare took it for affection and pushed her face into Mrs Totteridge 's stomach . |
| 7 | The sister watched her for a while , then sent the nurse on an errand . |
| 8 | Oddly , thoughts of the stranger haunted her for the rest of that day . |
| 9 | The rock thanked her for helping it . |
| 10 | The light dazzled us for a bare ten years with its brilliance , before it was extinguished . |
| 11 | If I had n't made that bet , and had n't then gone both ways , nine times out of ten Jude would have shown a beaten hand and raked in half the pot — while the lads trashed me for letting him off lightly . |
| 12 | ‘ It was a pity the wind ruined it for everyone . ’ |
| 13 | The superintendent thanked him for his help and bade him goodnight but with a distracted air as though her attention were elsewhere . |
| 14 | She came home to Oxford at weekends , and she and Eleanor and Anna spent Saturdays together , and often the husbands joined them for supper . |
| 15 | He was surprised when the girl asked him for threepence . |
| 16 | The council passed it for allocation to youth activities . |
| 17 | ‘ Angela said the council wanted it for housing ? ’ |
| 18 | Soon the mousy man became exhausted by struggling with the suitcase and for the first time the Feldwebel carried it for him . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's nigh on two year since I 've been out that house , ’ said Bella suddenly , ‘ since the Warden took me for that X-ray after I fell over and hurt me wrist . ’ |
| 20 | The guard invited us for tea . |
| 21 | They submitted a paper for publication and the editor sent it for reviews before deciding whether to publish it ask for revisions or reject it . |
| 22 | One of the pourers reproved me for eating cheese before trying the wine . |
| 23 | The postman thanked him for the warning and drove back to Mount Carmel . |
| 24 | I was very nervous , and I found myself coming on very strong and direct with her , and saying , ‘ I liked Rosemary 's Baby , but the picture bothered me for this reason … |
| 25 | In the early thirteenth century the canons and the laity left it for new Salisbury on the plain , by the river ; and Old Sarum survived only as a castle and a rotten borough . |
| 26 | The stewardesses woke them for a champagne breakfast . |
| 27 | His absorption with Mao and Castro was so open that the neighbors took it for a double bluff , and each new discovery of an agent transmitting messages from some ordinary-looking English suburb increased the tension of their interest in the land mine who was surely bound one day to go off in their own street . |
| 28 | And then he gave order that all the windows of the towers which looked in upon the town should be closed up , that the Christians might not see what the Moors did in their houses ; and the Moors thanked him for this greatly . |
| 29 | She says that they were desperate for food , and the pike fed them for two days . |
| 30 | The People attacked him for accepting the freebie during the 1990 Gulf crisis . |