Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [vb pp] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | One bitch we bred , Champion Jagen Blue Trigo , did the original job she was bred for many years . |
| 32 | She was driven for 20 minutes to the Eastern docks , Dover . |
| 33 | NAZLI TOP : A 23-year-old nurse and midwife , she was tortured for four days at the Anti-Terror Branch of Istanbul Police Headquarters while three months ' pregnant . |
| 34 | For entering churches in Bristol ‘ to bear testimony against their formalities ’ , she was imprisoned for three months in 1654 . |
| 35 | When she was taken for further interrogation the following day , it was with mixed feelings of anticipation and dread . |
| 36 | The thing is , she was arrested for ten years for going to North Korea without government permission . |
| 37 | Despite the tougher trading conditions I am pleased to report that Healthcare has yet again had a profitable year , and we are poised for further expansion of our business in the coming year . |
| 38 | If we are intended for great ends , we are called to great hazards ; and , whereas we are given absolute certainty in nothing , we must in all things choose between doubt and inactivity , and the conviction that we are under the eye of One who , for whatever reason , exercises us with the less evidence when He might give us the greater . |
| 39 | Well we 're done for next week . |
| 40 | We do n't do very good at reading and writing , but we 're made for physical things . ’ |
| 41 | And the team will cry out for joy as well , because we were created for this community , and in a way we have been looking for it all our lives . |
| 42 | We were separated for four hours in Peterborough once — I looked everywhere for him . |
| 43 | On the 13th we were warned for slow play . |
| 44 | At one station we were stopped for several hours alongside a troop train on which I discovered the Reverend R.H.L. Slater , now enrolled as an army chaplain , who told me the comforting news that my wife and three children had got away from Myitkyina a day or two earlier . |
| 45 | This means they take no risk when they stock it , as they are reimbursed for any copies left unsold at the end of the week . |
| 46 | The counsellors are not there to tell any young person what to do though if they are asked for practical advice they will give it . |
| 47 | Ideologies do not just appear in societies ; their function is to legitimate practices , and they are formulated for this purpose . |
| 48 | If they are not claimed by their owners they are kept for seven days after which if they can not be sold they can be destroyed . |
| 49 | They are fixed for five years at open market value , based on a detailed profit and loss account taking into account the outgoings , turnover , style , size and location of the pub . |
| 50 | They are appointed for four years . |
| 51 | Under 4* and 5* Maxplan policies , they are covered for all perils . |
| 52 | Also certain wholesale transactions are excluded ( as they are deemed for professional investors rather than personal investors ) and are regulated by the Bank of England . |
| 53 | Functionally the antennae are organs of special -sense ( Schneider , 1964 ; see also p. 139 ) but in a few cases they are modified for other uses . |
| 54 | From time to time other sections may be needed but lists can be made up as and when they are required for specific projects . |
| 55 | They can still use , and have been using , cull grenades in the cause of science , even though they are banned for commercial purposes . |
| 56 | They are designed for single use , but because they are made of formed fabric , they give the appearance of linen . |
| 57 | To Esau the reunion means they must now journey on together , but when he suggests it Jacob replies : ‘ My lord knows that the children are frail , and that the flocks and herds giving suck are a care to me ; and if they are overdriven for one day , all the flocks will die . |
| 58 | We learned for the second time that old London Underground trains never die : they are sold for another quarter-century 's work on the Isle of Wight . |
| 59 | Since cylinder cleaners do n't beat the surface , they are recommended for hard floors and short-pile carpets . |
| 60 | They are changed for individual requirements , especially in the mountain stages . |