Example sentences of "that [noun prp] [vb past] [verb] for [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | There was a hole low down in the hedge that Nutty had earmarked for entry . |
2 | There were only three huts and a couple of three-walled structures that Isabel had taken for huts last night . |
3 | Such generosity did not extend to a paper tie and crown that Picasso had made for Richardson ( also for Cooper ) on some gala occasion . |
4 | Slightly dominant , she slotted admirably into the mother-substitute figure that Nicholson seemed to require for stability — as opposed to the more sexually desirable women who figured in his life with frequency . |
5 | And a card ‘ Happy Easter to My Mum ’ with a by now much bedraggled feather stuck on a drawing of , she supposed , an egg , that Clarissa had done at Nursery School ; and a hyacinth in a pot that Tom had got for Mother 's Day . |
6 | The IMF reported on March 12 that Georgia had applied for membership , and on March 16 Shevardnadze met an IMF delegation . |
7 | WE also told you last week that Liverpool had moved for Andy Awford , Pompey centre-back . |
8 | This led the government , in the words of one senior manager , repeatedly to ‘ move the goalposts ’ , in other words to change the criteria that BR had to meet for electrification schemes to be approved . |