Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [verb] [adv] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the the people I met made up for that . |
| 2 | I 'd tried hard for many years to get him to stop , in the face of informed professional opinion , but he had always shrugged it off . |
| 3 | He was a good journalist and one I 'd known professionally for many years . |
| 4 | ‘ So , I started looking around for another job and heard that Mike Martinez , the agent , was looking for someone to do some secretarial work and some negotiating , and that he preferred English girls for such work . |
| 5 | So then I had to put in for another grant because he 'd smashed every damn thing . |
| 6 | " I had to go away for several days and while I was gone your mother saw some papers in Devraux 's desk . |
| 7 | The sergeant looked at her closely , obviously wondering if she planned to run off for some reason . |
| 8 | She 'd saved up for many months . |
| 9 | Mm , you sent sent off for all your |
| 10 | She had saved up for such a long time and did n't want to carry a load of coins around . |
| 11 | She had lived there for some time although it is not known where she lived before coming to Darlington . |
| 12 | Serving great forces was not what she had signed up for this trip , but somehow it felt right . |
| 13 | The first person she had opened up for that morning had been the postman at five past eight . |
| 14 | You had to go ashore for that . |
| 15 | What , well , we had a very large sitting dining room where we put er our dining room furniture at one end and as , the sitting room furniture at the other , it was very large actually , a Nissan hut does n't look very big , but it is quite big and we had one large bedroom where we got all our furniture in there and then there was er a kitchen , and there was an Elsan lavatory in the garden which er you had to go outside for that , and er , we bought a full length galvanized bath like an ordinary bath upstairs and there was a boiler in the kitchen so we used to light the fire of the boiler , fill the boiler with water from the tap , we had a , oh we had all sorts of er innovations that made life easy as could be in the circumstances , we had er hose pipe from the kitchen sink into the bathroom , we managed to get about three baths a week , cos it , it was a terrible fag , but we did , and then you just emptied the bath out and out in the drain outside you know . |
| 16 | Was there ever a time when you had to go in for more drastic measures ? |
| 17 | You know them that we got to send off for that , I got head bag and you got that ? |
| 18 | yeah that 's lovely , we did put in for some in February , we have this one in the we have n't got a cover that one . |
| 19 | We had pressed hard for these and the Inspector eventually agreed to a series at four different venues . |
| 20 | We bought some after we had laid out for most of ours |
| 21 | But they appeared to vanish altogether for several years to return mysteriously to look , to whistle and back chat . |
| 22 | There were quite a few dunces , and er some did n't always get moved on and they did n't all make it into the top class , they had to stop again for another year , or period , in the class they were . |
| 23 | Mr Fallon said a family renting a house valued at £25,000 , and entitled to the maximum price discount of 40pc because they had lived there for some years , could have a mortgage of £10,000 . |
| 24 | They had worked together for several years and the elder of them readily agreed to help supply the other 's son if he went into hiding in the woods above Eastertyre . |
| 25 | He 'd sat up for most of the night brooding about it , wondering what her reaction to him would be , finally deciding that he could n't wait until the evening to find out . |
| 26 | When his wife died he began to look around for another ; someone who would give him the children he needed . |
| 27 | No matter how dismally he fared , he kept coming back for more . |
| 28 | Det Insp Jeff Crowther said : ‘ This incident could have been worse if it had gone on for any length of time . ’ |
| 29 | It had gone on for some time , she could n't say how long . |
| 30 | Although it had become easier for some middle-class men ( or their sons ) to earn membership of the national ruling culture by Edwardian times , their status as true " gentlemen " remained equivocal in an atmosphere of continued mistrust of the business community , albeit tempered by outbreaks of anxiety over the volatility of the lower orders which it was felt the task of their middle-class superiors to defuse . |