Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [verb] [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had n't even looked at the floor in case I got nostalgic for my own personal locks now lost to me for ever . |
| 2 | Boss Malcolm Crosby , after SUNDERLAND 'S 5–2 disaster at PETERBOROUGH , said : ‘ It is the fans I feel sorry for . ’ |
| 3 | Jenny found herself dragged uncomfortably over the gear-stick and hand-brake , her left cheek was pressed in against her teeth by the pressure of an ardent but misdirected kiss and she felt a button on her cardigan give with a violence which boded ill for Marks and Sparks cowering beneath . |
| 4 | It was a chilly May day , with grey skies and a wind which seemed thirsty for another death . |
| 5 | This crater often gets filled with lakes of lava which remain molten for amazingly long periods . |
| 6 | Electors will not forget vote which hits potential for jobs |
| 7 | Kinsai was constructed on top of a plug of volcanic rock which rose sheer for almost a thousand metres out of an almost perfectly flat and featureless plain . |
| 8 | So the practice itself becomes useful for two different purposes , diagnosis and collaboration , which will probably not happen on the same occasion . |
| 9 | His focus soon shifted to subjects he became famous for portraying : the nouveaux riches at play in 1920 's Berlin . |
| 10 | At half-time it looked bad for Town but they came bouncing back with two goals in a minute … |
| 11 | One level up , there was a polo field which looked useful for efforts . |
| 12 | Cor right , there was one little boy I felt sorry for him right , he went up , down , up , down , weee ! |
| 13 | Rainoldes apart , the transgressions associated with the boy players , be they actual or imagined , rendered the theatrical self-consciousness surrounding transvestism complex and shifting ; it provoked questions teasingly unanswerable : for example — and this is a question which remains intriguing for us today — which , or how many , of the several gender identities embodied in any one figure are in play at any one time ? |
| 14 | If people hear you come from Blackbird Leys you get condemned for it . |
| 15 | All they have to do is write ten articles they consider suitable for the education page . |
| 16 | Through the composition of the Committee it became legitimate for the Board and the District to negotiate with the LEAs jointly or independently over their provision — a new development which Jacques valued highly as it was an explicit , formal recognition of the District as the Responsible Body for the organisation of WEA classes and courses . |
| 17 | No they 're a bit you know long for her but they 're the same size as she was wearing Jean and the other ones were too narrow for her feet . |
| 18 | We heard of daily torture , public hangings , guards who walked about with whips , gas chambers , castrated children and prisoners who lay dead for hours in the communal beds . |
| 19 | A LORRY driver who felt sorry for an unwanted calf stole animal feed to keep it alive . |
| 20 | These he assembled in his Chelsea Knackatory in 1695 , an establishment which proved popular for the next hundred years . |
| 21 | Orford Ness , where a staff of 2,000 once worked , has been involved in national defence research and development since the First World War when aircraft fitted with armaments were first tested.Research into bomb ballistics was carried out from 1929 and among the researchers was Barnes Wallis who became famous for inventing the bouncing bombs used against the Mohne and Eder dams during the Second World War . |
| 22 | Her son has recently left home , and , at this point she became ineligible for housing benefit . |
| 23 | We have obtained all the information and explanations we consider necessary for the purposes of our audit . |
| 24 | The governing body will be able to select the grade it considers appropriate for the post . |
| 25 | Normally I am a good sleeper , but that New Year 's Night I lay awake for hours , with cold , sexual fantasy or worry . |
| 26 | Well I I think that the honourable gentleman really must accept that er coming from a party which is er in office in er in the Welsh office and has er two hundred million , two hundred and eight million pounds I think unaccounted for last year , it really ill becomes him er to lecture , to lecture anybody . |
| 27 | His dominant inclination ( he wrote ) had always been towards philosophy , " and even in my philological studies I have been most attracted by those topics which seemed important for the history of philosophy or for ethical and aesthetic problems " . |
| 28 | Walden are next to bottom without a win all season but their brave defence reduced Colchester to a kicking game on a day which seemed perfect for running rugby . |
| 29 | THE NEXT morning Erika helped Omi dress in black , the only colour she considered suitable for Divine Service . |
| 30 | On one occasion she sat alone for six hours travelling up to Carlisle . |