Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb past] [pers pn] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Oh , it 's got nothing to do with business , ’ Alison replied with a laugh that ever so gently reprimanded me for my mercantile preoccupations . |
| 2 | He obviously still took us for a couple holidaying together , and his embarrassment at intruding took the form of ignoring my presence . |
| 3 | Geared to local economic needs , dominated by businessmen rather than bureaucrats and financed by a mixture of public and private money , TECs originally promised a genuine break with the Whitehall-dominated past : a chance , at last , to give high-quality training the priority so often denied it for decades . |
| 4 | Her mother so seldom asked her for anything , she realised with a jolt . |
| 5 | The German academics very prudently ignored him for forty years ; but lately , to the disgrace of Germany , he has been discovered by an English critic . |
| 6 | They had a large box of miscellaneous bit and pieces of sticky tape and straws and wood and drawing pins and all sorts of things , and we essentially just left them for two weeks to do this — and they came up with some superb ideas . |
| 7 | ‘ He never really forgave me for leaving home , ’ she said to Peter . |