Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pers pn] [vb past] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | My father worked part-time in a dance hall and he picked up a Leeds United badge which I wore everywhere for about 6 months until I lost it : - ( ( ( ( . |
| 2 | Korg M1 synthesiser ‘ A good keyboard which I bought mainly for the piano sound . |
| 3 | This was indeed what was sought by the IS team in the first place , and was a concept to which they clung tenaciously for some time . |
| 4 | The jibes of the kids at his scattered schools , which he attended sometimes for a token day or two to throw a sop to the government , struck him as neither here nor there . |
| 5 | Boussena 's tour coincided with a series of visits by Sa'adoun Hammadi , Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister , to Kuwait , Qatar , Saudi Arabia and the UAE , during which he pressed vigorously for cuts in production to be implemented . |
| 6 | A former bus driver , illness forced him to give up the DIAL office at Kingsley which he ran successfully for two years . |
| 7 | Despite natural hardships and TB ( which he resisted remarkably for twenty years ) , he loved life passionately . |
| 8 | King Hussein delivered a televised speech to the nation on Nov. 5 in which he spoke publicly for the first time about his recent cancer surgery in the United States [ see p. 39118 ] , announcing that he would have to undergo further tests in the USA . |
| 9 | ‘ Besides , it 's what I came here for . ’ |
| 10 | That 's what you went there for then . |
| 11 | Right then , what you got there for ? |
| 12 | got the foam so that 's what we went there for , this this horrible night ! |
| 13 | Suddenly she felt a glowing warmth deep inside ; he could never betray her , could never sell what they had together for the cheap thrill of recounting an old , sordid story . |
| 14 | What they did fortunately for us , is to keep the roof structure , saw out the pieces , prop up on on on posts and then drop the whole roof by a whole storey so it we 've still got the roof . |