Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [be] [vb pp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | " O Lord be merciful , or I 'm done for ! " |
| 2 | Firearms experts then entered the house to bring out Leanne Rees , who was taken by ambulance to Darlington Memorial Hospital , where she was treated for shock . |
| 3 | Tracy West , who was knocked down , was picked up by bystanders and taken to a nearby shop , where she was treated for shock before being taken to the Memorial Hospital . |
| 4 | ‘ You 're a blister on the behind , Curtius , ’ Mrs ze Schluderpacheru shouted , ‘ leave him alone or you 're barred for life . ’ |
| 5 | Once a candidate is recruited , decisions about when he or she is entered for an examination should be taken very carefully and should draw on advice from tutors . |
| 6 | The NORTH U21s , managed by Dave Parker , enjoyed their biennial pre-season tour to Marvejols in Central France where they were hosted for their week long visit by French families as the result of town twinning with Cockermouth , and the fantastic hospitality and often adventurous leisure activities were enjoyed not only by the players but also by referee Fred Howard , who officiated in the first two matches . |
| 7 | Total secrecy surrounded the morning surgery in Nottingham 's Queen 's Medical Centre where he was treated for an arm injury two years ago , after falling from his polo pony . |
| 8 | The man , in his mid-forties , was rescued by fire fighters and taken to hospital , where he was treated for smoke inhalation . |
| 9 | Hsu himself grew up in eastern China but his account is evidently a syncretic blend of what he learned as a child from personal experience and what he learned as an adult , several thousand miles away to the west , during fourteen months ' fieldwork in the Yunnanese city of Tali-fu , where he was employed for a while as a teacher in a local missionary college . |
| 10 | His wife , Gail drove him to Thame Magistrates Court today where he was banned for 3 weeks and fined £160 . |
| 11 | His official car was intercepted in the centre of Vilnius , and he was taken in handcuffs to the OMON headquarters outside the city , where he was held for questioning for nearly 12 hours before being released . |
| 12 | He was , we were told , a butcher from Thaxted who joined a gang of baddies and eventually landed up in York jail , where he was hanged for horse stealing . |
| 13 | In 1939 Hoffnung became a pupil at Highgate School , where he was remembered for his anarchic spirit . |
| 14 | Admittedly , where it is used for mass vaccination its reported efficacy has varied widely , as detailed by Citron . |
| 15 | It is often planted as an ornamental tree in warmer climates such as the Mediterranean , where it is valued for being very tolerant of salt-laden winds . |
| 16 | ‘ You wanted to know in general where it 's destined for ? ’ the American asks . |
| 17 | The Brotherhood is still active today , not only in Egypt where it is prominent in university life , but in Jordan and Syria ( where it was blamed for the 1982 uprising at Hama ) . |
| 18 | The Sawdoctors claim ( or it 's claimed for them ) that they 're the voice of a young , rural Ireland . |
| 19 | No I did n't apply , I erm , although I was interviewed for the job . |
| 20 | Now I find myself alone — that is irrelevant in terms of what happens to me , but for the idea that the Lord was homosexual , and for the perverted practices on his dead body not to be seen to be blasphemous if the case is lost — about that I am lost for words ! |
| 21 | It would not be whimsical to suggest that I still go to Arsenal now because of what Swindon did to me then : like a gambler who keeps playing because it is the only way to win back what he has lost , I still feel , somewhere in me , that I am owed for what Ian Ure and Jon Sammels and Bobby Gould put me through that afternoon . |
| 22 | But then with an ever deepening sinking feeling inside I realise that I am bound for failure once again . |
| 23 | Winning the title meant that I was selected for Great Britain to run against West Germany in Dortmund . |
| 24 | I make this point after returning from a day 's walking near Ullswater when I was approached by a party of walkers who had followed me for some distance thinking that I was headed for the same destination . |
| 25 | If I find in myself a desire for which no experience in this world can satisfy , the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world . |
| 26 | I trusted him to see that I was equipped for the new life I had chosen . |
| 27 | But one incident that amused me was that I was booked for a coffee commercial and the producer phoned me up the night before the session to let me know the track we were doing , because he said he wanted to get it as close to the original as he possibly could . |
| 28 | My lack of culinary expertise has always been a source of great mirth to the men in my life and my well-attended failures embroidered into legends over the years , so I was prepared for the banter that accompanied dinner . |
| 29 | And I made up my mind — " Now Mary Edgar you 'll be terribly sea-sick , " so I was prepared for the worst . |
| 30 | Although she is reputed for being , ‘ the fastest knife in the West ! ’ |