Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pers pn] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | They argued about it for the rest of the afternoon , he becoming sullen and sorry , she remaining dispassionate , untouched-She was impressed by his sudden remorse . |
| 2 | I got asked about it for months . |
| 3 | Like all actors with reviews , he checked through it for quotability , and decided that , with only slight injustice to the meaning , and the excision of a comma , he could come up with the very serviceable sentence , ‘ Charles Paris grows in stature through the evening . ’ |
| 4 | Now and then she lifted an eyeglass up and peered through it for a moment , and , evidently finding it useless at this distance , let it fall again , shaking her head in a frustrated way . |
| 5 | The rushes on the floor were none too clean : hungry wolf-hounds foraged amongst them for bits of food and Corbett heard the squeak and scamper of rats . |
| 6 | If there was a serious disagreement the report would still contain the point but it would say that the school disagreed with it for whatever reason . |
| 7 | Both the New Criticism and Scrutiny were products of the modernist literary revolution , and drew on it for their methods and their assumptions . |
| 8 | He knelt over her for a moment , tough and handsome in the candlelight , his eyes triumphant with the knowledge of desire on the verge of fulfilment , possessing her as only he could , then he was bending , lifting her into his arms , carrying her across the room , and she felt the sudden chill as the door opened and , wedging it awkwardly with his foot , he bundled her through it . |
| 9 | It never occurred to me for a moment that she had planned it all in cold blood . ’ |
| 10 | It occurred to me for the first time that he might not know whether or not I 'd lost the baby . |
| 11 | The unremitting contempt had become unendurable , although it occurred to her for the first time that Luke might actually resent her . |
| 12 | It occurred to her for the first time that there were a couple of curious anomalies in her childhood . |
| 13 | It occurred to her for the first time that there was no sign of a car , apart from her own . |
| 14 | It occurred to him for the first time that Celia would be a bad enemy , just as she was a good friend . |
| 15 | Nancy moved among them for a while , making them welcome , peering into their pale faces with the object of discovering which were her grandchildren . |
| 16 | She had hit him and fed him , shouted at him for being idle and comforted him when he woke in the night and was afraid . |
| 17 | From ‘ African History for Beginners ’ we learn that Cain was the first white man ; he turned pale , and his features shrivelled up , when God shouted at him for killing Abel . |
| 18 | After I shouted at you for not being there for Mrs Richards ? ’ |
| 19 | She wandered around it for a minute until she realized it was odd there were no sounds from him . |
| 20 | Piper squirmed between them for a moment , fighting to get free , then went limp . |
| 21 | All right , I 'll sit on the table , you 've been good to me , savin' me from those blokes that came after me for nothing . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm not going to do anything , except wait and see how the police get on , ’ said Joe , ‘ and I do n't know what you can do except tell the police that you got acquainted with the unfortunate bloke when he came after you for nicking that wallet from Blackbeard . |
| 23 | She stopped to catch a child by the hand and whisper some word which was rewarded with a kiss , then caught the corner of her veil to cover her already masked face as the chief driver came towards her for a quick answer to a query , always given and received after the words of greeting and queries as to health had been exchanged . |
| 24 | It was full of pieces of paper , which he dropped behind him for the other boys to follow . |
| 25 | She came with me for no reason at all , whereas it would have taken quite a few other PCs to shift her . |
| 26 | When Christian left for London to begin his new life in the Methodist ministry , Seb took him to the railway station at Shipton-under-Wychwood in the farm 's gig and Carrie came with him for the ride . |
| 27 | Our younger daughter came with us for a year to Australia , where Michael had a visiting Professorship at Sydney University . |
| 28 | Johnny Miller played with us for the last two days . |
| 29 | Yeah hall hired from you for a function |
| 30 | He said : ‘ I 've got a soft spot for the league , because I played in it for many years . ’ |