Example sentences of "[vb past] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It would n't be an exaggeration to say I lived for that owl during that very intense period of training . |
| 32 | ‘ They lived for each other , they leaned on each other , they helped each other , they worked for each other . |
| 33 | She lived for many years , and preserved a record that she had been treated with Penicillium . |
| 34 | Patients lived for many years , and some died from causes unrelated to their blood pressure . |
| 35 | For instance , this year there will be a film marking the centenary of Leo Walmsley , the novelist who lived for many years at Robin Hood 's Bay . |
| 36 | I lived for many years in the north of England . |
| 37 | Good Friday is about punks at Hastings , where I lived for many years , seen feeding a hot-cross bun to pigeons . |
| 38 | He lived for many years at Brockham , Betchworth , Surrey , and died there 10 April 1935 . |
| 39 | Never married , Lottie Dod lived for many years in London before moving to Milford-on-Sea . |
| 40 | It was almost a model village , with its Quality Street , where a future head of the Secret Service lived for many years . |
| 41 | And while Toff claims his techniques are very much part of the English slipware tradition , his pots often look like something out of Africa , where he lived for several years . |
| 42 | Bottcher Strawalde is an artist who lived for several decades in the shadow of the Berlin Wall ( the film was discovered or rediscovered by Parisians a month ago at the Jeu de Paume ) . |
| 43 | In order to observe this and to try to understand something of what life in the movement was like at first hand — and , of course , to try to observe the operation of sociological variables such as social control — I lived for several periods of a week or so , over a span of six years , in Unification centres and participated in various of their functions . |
| 44 | Miguel joins us direct from BARCELONA , where he lived for several months . |
| 45 | Some lived for several days in this pitiful condition , their feet gnawed by dogs , until they died in agony . |
| 46 | An inquest has heard that a baby boy , who lived for less than an hour , could have died because of injuries caused by forceps used during his birth . |
| 47 | An internal inquiry has been carried out by Ealing social services , in whose area Christopher lived for most of the last weeks of his life , but no serious professional errors were found . |
| 48 | She can rarely have travelled , for example , more than fifteen miles from Brackley , Northamptonshire , where she lived for most of her twenty-four years . |
| 49 | He lived for most of the time at his family seat at Laxton Hall , Northamptonshire , with his wife and only daughter , and frequented St. Saviour 's Church for the Deaf in London . |
| 50 | He was Charles Longuet Higgins , who was born in Turvey Abbey in 1806 and lived for most of his life in the family home . |
| 51 | Aislabie , who lived for most of his adult life at Lee Place , Eltham , Kent , and at East Park Place , Regent 's Park , died at this latter residence 2 June 1842 . |
| 52 | She and her husband lived for most of their married life in Oxshott , Surrey , moving later to Golders Green . |
| 53 | The late Miss Pepper , who lived for some years at The Bield , spoke of the ‘ throwing up ’ of fleeces during clipping to a helper on the gallery . |
| 54 | He was a brilliant scholar , and lived for some time at ‘ Titeup Hall , ’ Dalton . |
| 55 | The story of Hereward was later popularised by the novelist Charles Kingsley ( 1819–1875 ) , who lived for some years at Barnack Rectory , about four miles to the south-east of Stamford . |
| 56 | In addition to having worked in Germany and the USSR , and lived for some time before the war in France , I was brought up for the first five years of my life in India in a native state where I was the only white child . |
| 57 | But the fact remains that Panaetius lived for some time in Rome , as the Index Stoicorum Herculanensis , an excellent source , states ( 73 ) ; and there seems to be no reason to doubt the statement of Cicero in Pro Murena that he was the guest of Scipio ( 31.56 ) . |
| 58 | Julian then made a full recovery and lived for another forty years . |
| 59 | ‘ And after the Venerable Dorn had rescued the mutilated , charred living corpse of the Emperor in the wake of that direst of victories against the renegade Horus , ’ declaimed moon-faced combat-Chaplain Lo Chang in chapel ; ‘ and after he had overseen the construction of the Golden Throne , guided by the Emperor 's mighty spirit as He lay in life-support ; and after Rogal Dorn had witnessed the transfer of that unquenchable divine husk into the Great Psychoprosthetic Throne , lo , afterwards our Primarch lived for another four hundred and thirteen years … ’ |
| 60 | He lived for another four years while his empire lapsed into chaos . |