Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [pers pn] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Escobar announced last month that he was declaring war on the state and the government has since blamed him for a series of bomb blasts in Bogota and other cities which have killed more than 40 people . |
| 2 | This had covered the blotter so that he had really only seen it for a short time . |
| 3 | Clutterbuck ceased to work the mill during the latter half of the 1840s , for by 1847 it had been leased to a paper-maker , Frederick Wiggins , who apparently only operated it for a few years . |
| 4 | ‘ We 've only got her for five years , then she has to go back to the Foundling Hospital . ’ |
| 5 | Geoff Butterwick , public transport manager for Suffolk County Council , said : ‘ We 've only had it for a few weeks but it 's already proving useful and I 'm sure it will make life a lot easier . |
| 6 | They 've all bought it for nothing . ’ |
| 7 | She laughed silently at herself ; she had only known him for a few hours , and here she was , assessing his character as if he were an old and true friend . |
| 8 | It 's ridiculous — I 've only known him for a few weeks . |
| 9 | ‘ You 've only known him for a few months ! ’ |
| 10 | He had not said that he believed her , had only touched her for that fleeting moment , but she knew what she had felt . |
| 11 | Of all his field agents Philpott had known Whitlock the longest , having personally recruited him for MIS at Oxford University . |
| 12 | Hurley had not forgiven him for the loss of Syrian George , and he was still under heavy pressure from Washington to show results , but in general Coleman made sure they got along for the sake of his back-channel reports to MC/10 Control . |
| 13 | She wondered if fate had just punished her for picking wild flowers . |
| 14 | His mother had not joined them for the meal , bowing in this regard to the T'ang 's wishes . |
| 15 | Mr Fractor threatened him with a sum stretching right round the classroom if he did n't stay awake and had already punished him for not finishing his work on time . |
| 16 | While the plodding votary of meaning is anxiously inquiring out the sense … his fellow-worshipper , remembering that our eyes were not given us for nothing … roves , in gazing ecstasy from page to page , till here and there arrested by the choice vignette or richly tinctured plate . |
| 17 | ( There is a constant flow of Micks visiting our affiliated Royal Navy ship , the destroyer HMS Boxer ; some of Support Company had just joined her for a Channel cruise . ) |
| 18 | If you 've just joined us for the eight o'clock news , as many people do , welcome . |
| 19 | Well , I 've got , if you you just bear with me a moment , I still have one foot dragging in H one , but I thought we 'd got to the stage where in order to try and clarify thinking on the matter we ought to progress onto H two , erm , that just let me reveal the thinking , erm that , before I do that can I just say in terms of mechanics those of you who have just joined us for the first time , could you turn your name boards round so I can see them , thank you , and when you want to come in the normal practice is to put your name board on end , so it will attract our attention . |
| 20 | I assumed he 'd just picked you for the resemblance . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Then since you accept what I say , madam — ’ interposed the cardinal with a sense of timing that suggested the protector had not nominated him for the task solely on account of his venerability ‘ — might I urge you to give the prince into my custody ! ’ |
| 22 | Dad 's a , dad 's just nominated you for the big in the campus . |
| 23 | I have just done it for the only time in the 23,400,000 minutes of my life so far , and I doubt if I 'll do it again , so call these odds one in 25 million . |
| 24 | you 've just done it for there . |
| 25 | Alison regarded me as though I were a dosser who 'd just importuned her for some spare change . |
| 26 | Three years of being a member of the Campaign Team at AI had not prepared me for seeing human rights abuses first hand . |
| 27 | Living in close intimacy with Jean-Claude had not prepared me for confronting in musical shape the qualities I sensed and loved in him but could not define . |
| 28 | For all her self-confidence , her upbringing had not prepared her for that . ’ |
| 29 | His education had not prepared him for this in any way . |
| 30 | Life had not prepared him for the task , and it soon became clear that he lacked the natural shrewdness and strength of character that a Gdansk plumber was to show the Polish bosses three years later . |