Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [adj] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This animosity boded ill for their future cooperation in East Prussia . |
| 2 | Welsh servants aid mother 's helps came aid went , aid some he ‘ admired aid enjoyed admiring for their sweet looks or language or presence . |
| 3 | Under his leadership the Somerset county committee became notorious for its vindictiveness . |
| 4 | Rioch joined Millwall but the scene turned sour for him last season . |
| 5 | Then the Champion got banned for his ride on Midnight Air who was thrown out of first place after the Fillies Mile . |
| 6 | She tore open the envelope , ignoring the paper knife Penman laid ready for her each day . |
| 7 | The outline of the character seemed right for her youngest daughter but when producer Alan Hardy saw Kylie , it was she he chose . |
| 8 | The U.S. Consul became responsible for our wellbeing but it was fourteen days or more before my parents got word of my survival after being reported missing on 21 May . ’ |
| 9 | Outside in the street , huge crowds were already gathering , joking and laughing , and pushing to get the best places near the great black platform , where the rope hung ready for its morning 's work . |
| 10 | Jamie answered on her first buzz , and the door clicked open for her . |
| 11 | The bare notion of the will remained important for him and , along with it , the presupposition of irrational nature and the special value of art , but much of the doctrine was no longer operative in this thinking . |
| 12 | During the 19th Century the textile industry flourished as the County became famous for its beautiful Nottingham Lace . |
| 13 | They noted that asylums had a tendency to provide employment on farms and in workshops for the most competent and socially organized patients and there were some remarkably successful asylum farming ventures ; for example , in the early twentieth century Cane Hill Hospital became famous for its herd of pedigree pigs . |
| 14 | At the same time the book became popular for its literary merits with the Romantic Movement , who preferred a naïve and spontaneous style to the studied and artificial manner of the eighteenth century . |
| 15 | The amount of land made available for them to purchase should be approximately equivalent to the allotments they had tilled for their own subsistence under serfdom . |
| 16 | Living amongst the Indonesians , where the pursuit of wisdom virtually amounts to a national pastime , the elements of Earth , Air , Fire , Water and Ether became real for me in a way they had never been in the writings of the Gnostics or the Pythagoreans . |
| 17 | The lemon became real for you ; your imagination tricked your body into believing it would have to cope with a mouthful of pure citrus . |
| 18 | He stood up and began moving restlessly around the room , fiddling with books and ornaments and adjusting the glasses and cutlery on the table laid ready for their meal . |
| 19 | The look in Algernon 's face boded ill for somebody . |
| 20 | Claudia hardly saw Dana ; she left in the morning before her twin left her room , though more than once Claudia heard her moving about and she knew Dana was deliberately waiting until she left the flat before appearing to drink the coffee left ready for her . |