Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] for [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have heard them for some time ; now we see them , red and white on the green of the plains . |
| 2 | On the machine build that he 's given me for this year , of which that is an example . |
| 3 | One that has plagued me for some while . |
| 4 | In addition to securing Commonwealth support for their position , the British sought to consolidate their own aviation policy into some definable form , something which had eluded them for several years . |
| 5 | What could be anticipated with confidence was the beneficial results of redistribution , for Unionists had expected them for some time . |
| 6 | A GRATEFUL reader who would like to thank her daughter for the surprise of a lifetime has nominated her for this week 's bouquet . |
| 7 | I have to say that nothing in my career so far has prepared me for this kind of work . |
| 8 | Hast Thou ever seen me for that reason at all dejected ? |
| 9 | My little girl Natasha was with a friend at the time and because my mum had n't seen me for some time she was concerned . |
| 10 | I had not seen them for some time . |
| 11 | Tony 's mother had made them for this occasion , and though recipes vary slightly the end result is a large currant biscuit . |
| 12 | I would n't have seen you for another hour . |
| 13 | You know when I look vexed , I goes , because I hav n't seen you for few weeks , and he walked away , come are you walking back with us ? |
| 14 | Shocking as the assault had been , it had prepared her for another encounter — an encounter with a youth of her own age , bewildered and uneasy , one called to high estate who found himself of a sudden alone on the edge of an abyss … |
| 15 | Nothing in our four days on the felucca with this sullen boy had prepared us for this , as nothing could have prepared him for that afternoon in Asyut . |
| 16 | Nothing in his many years ' service had prepared him for this sort of situation . |
| 17 | Sir Charles , whose practice as a family solicitor in Hertfordshire had not prepared him for this sort of thing , was losing control . |
| 18 | Delaunay felt that the basis of his art was ‘ simultaneous ’ contrasts of colour , a concept which he adopted from Chevreul , whose colour theory had interested him for some time . |
| 19 | His passionate compression , luxuriant sound , and eclectic mixture of Anglo-Saxon , Latinate , and Celtic diction have made him for many readers both the greatest of Victorians and the first of the moderns . |
| 20 | I have n't seen him for many years . ’ |
| 21 | He was quite categorical ; Passmore was there on Friday evening from about seven until closing time , but he had n't seen him for several weeks before then and he has n't seen him since . ’ |
| 22 | Police broke in after neighbours had not seen him for several days . |
| 23 | She always forgot , when she had not seen him for some time , how he affected her . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've not seen him for some time . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I have n't seen him for some time . ’ |
| 26 | She had n't seen him for some years , of course , but she was sure that it was n't like him to be so edgy … so extraordinarily tense and restless . |
| 27 | I realised that I had n't visited her for some weeks and agreed to go to her house after school . |
| 28 | Well he had n't seen her for many years ? |
| 29 | " I have n't seen her for several weeks then she came in about two hours ago — sort of staggered into the kitchen , and she was carrying the kitten in her mouth . |
| 30 | She even told them about the nice young man who said he had n't seen her for some time . |