Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [verb] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He 's just the horse you need for a competitive race like the Andy Capp Handicap . ’ |
| 2 | After that result he disappeared for a short while , but he returned in time to be included in Wilson 's government , initially as Secretary of State for Economic Affairs , a post he held between 1964 and 1966 . |
| 3 | It 's great , Frankie boy ; I 'm keeping to the fields and the woods and walking a lot and getting lifts and when I get near a town I look for a good fat juicy dog and I make friends with it and take it out to the woods and then I kill it and eat it . |
| 4 | Weight for weight it does not compare favourably with foods like cereals and nuts in fibre content , although it works out well when you take into account how much fibre you get for a modest number of calories . |
| 5 | Perhaps because of his career as a Naval Officer during the First World War he worked for a long period during the Second World War at the Admiralty . |
| 6 | When he came back in the evening he sat for a long time gazing out across the V-shaped valley leading south . |
| 7 | The next day he went for a long walk , about 20 miles , during which he did a good deal of clear thinking in the mountains . |
| 8 | What , for instance , would Ken have in common with Andrew Ray , who was then just twenty-three years old ( Ken was now forty ) and who made known and very clear the attraction he felt for a pretty girl ? |
| 9 | Last night he played for a hand-picked team of personal friends against the national side after recent appearances to help out injury-hit Bayern Munich . |
| 10 | But our rate was fixed , the girls 's rate We worked for a fixed rate . |
| 11 | When I met him at Wentworth earlier this week he called for a peaceful Ryder Cup match against the Americans at The Belfry in September . |
| 12 | and he said , he said that 's just the man I want for a little job |
| 13 | Valerie Eliot was also his protector — as a secretary she had for a long time been organizing his daily life and guarding him from the world , and it was probably the calm assurance of her presence which first drew him towards her . |
| 14 | After battling winds and rain across the lake we stopped for a nutritious lunch and continued to battle our way to our second night 's camp . |
| 15 | Scott inherited the family estate in 1596 , but from 1612 until towards the end of his life he lived for a good part of the year in Canterbury . |
| 16 | It is selected from the pages of the BDN , to which he was a frequent contributor and on whose editorial board he served for a long period : A combined system is one which includes all useful methods and techniques and adapts them and uses them according to the particular needs of the child . |
| 17 | The reason I asked for a preserved pension obviously to see whether there was any preserved benefits . |
| 18 | ’ On the north-east corner he asked for a castellated bell tower in which to house the bell he had brought back from Lille . |
| 19 | Tension between Iraq and Kuwait came to the world 's attention in mid-July when Saddam Hussein launched a fierce attack on the policy of those Gulf states , principally Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates ( UAE ) , whose over-production of oil he blamed for a corresponding slump in world oil prices . |
| 20 | In the end he went for a small Monet , a house on a cliff-side over the sea , surrounded by flowers . |
| 21 | At one school I attended for a short while , very much for ‘ young ladies ’ , the headmistress descended unexpectedly on a class , with a visitor , and found it in uproar . |
| 22 | Last year she asked for a big French dictionary for her birthday . ’ |
| 23 | As you may know , our family lived in NZ from 1969 to 1978 and last year we returned for a 6-month tour , but I 've never been over the Haast Pass so that is a personal goal for me ! |
| 24 | Even as he asked the question , Seb realised that it no longer hurt in the way it had for a long time . |
| 25 | Every time we go for a Chinese |
| 26 | There must , in fact , be few marriages in which temporary sexual difficulties do not arise and , as we have seen , at any one time they exist for a fair proportion of married adults . |
| 27 | He tried to pull himself forward , branch to branch , but with his hands bound , he lost ground each time he grabbed for a fresh hold . |
| 28 | Should the child lose the reward it earns for a desirable behaviour ? |