Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [vb past] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | How sorry I felt for them as I stood with my images of a future of crackling kindling and bringing the pine logs hither and other rustic carry-ons . |
| 2 | Two years after I killed Blyth I murdered my young brother Paul , for quite different and more fundamental reasons than I 'd disposed of Blyth , and then a year after that I did for my young cousin Esmerelda , more or less on a whim . |
| 3 | Seve finished second to Johnny Miller and after that I caddied for him until the end of 1979 . |
| 4 | I repeat that if one adds to that the £40 million from the foundation , the £20 million a year for football and the £1 million that I found for the champion coaching scheme , it is clear that our commitment to sport is greater than anyone 's . |
| 5 | This I endured for several months , having no spirit even to complain . |
| 6 | This I did for five weeks returning to hospital to have my X-rays checked . |
| 7 | Oh she said it 's silly making him do that I said er very quickly I said , I said do n't get me wrong I said for kids who enjoy going to that sort of thing it 's great and fine if it 's alright |
| 8 | And I think now these are some I took for your |
| 9 | Vietnam and the United Kingdom signed an agreement in Hanoi , the Vietnamese capital , on May 12 which provided for the forcible repatriation of all Vietnamese " economic refugees " from Hong Kong . |
| 10 | Such passages ( at least outside the Constitution on the Liturgy ) are remarkably rare , but there are a few which called for and obtained almost immediate implementation in a way that introduced significant new dimensions into Church life . |
| 11 | The government on Sept. 29 approved an amended budget for 1993 which provided for a further BF21,800 million to cover the budgetary shortfall , including BF5,200 million in social security cuts . |
| 12 | The Volkskammer passed a law on July 22 which provided for the re-establishment of the five Länder abolished by the East German government after the war : Brandenburg , Mecklenburg-West Pomerania , Saxony , Saxony-Anhalt , and Thuringia . |
| 13 | I had an old air-raid shelter , partly dug into the ground because of the slope : there was a load of stones on top , waiting to turn the shelter into an apple store disguised as a rockery , and when Mrs Wilson saw this she stood for a long time looking at the hump in the ground and the pile of stones . |
| 14 | I remember one subject that required that she lay flat on the ground , and this she did for hours on end while I drew her . |
| 15 | The rest had left finance , bar a few who retrained for the burgeoning futures markets in right-to-pollute certificates and manual-job options . |
| 16 | The vast majority of readers chose to take the option of voting for two favourite animals , but those few who voted for just one ( which was then counted twice in the tallying up ) tended to favour the elephant , specifically the African elephant , followed by tiger , otter and pig . |
| 17 | Also disappointed were some who hoped for an inauguration of a holy war against the Roman occupation of Judaea : he taught non-resistance , love to enemies . |
| 18 | Of the students in my time , one has since become an archbishop , John Aung Hla ; another , John Maung Pe became the first bishop of Akyab , and another who came for a short term of study and an even shorter curacy was John Richardson , the saintly schoolteacher , catechist , priest and bishop in turn of Car Nicobar , where under his influence the whole of the island population , including witch doctors , became Christian . |
| 19 | Accepted by the Foreign Mission Board as a teacher in Duke Town , Calabar , in August 1876 she sailed for West Africa , never before having left Scotland . |
| 20 | Where a firm does provide services to a private customer on written contractual terms ( whether a two-way customer agreement required by the rules or a non-mandatory one used for commercial purposes ) , the agreement must set out in adequate detail the basis on which those services are provided . |
| 21 | He had a new strap fitted , but had the old one retained for posterity . |
| 22 | They wanted examples and cases to show that the institutions of capitalism are historically specific and therefore changeable ; in order to demonstrate this they looked for examples of institutions which were as different from those of capitalism as possible . |
| 23 | This they took for ‘ all animals except swine , and swine all the year round in the hay of Plumpton , and during the fence month … in the rest of the forest ’ |
| 24 | Forming a club enables them to enter competitions together , and this they did for the first time recently at the combined Hampshire and Berkshire county championships , held at Reading gaol . |
| 25 | Ewood Park is a lucky ground for them and in the first half they went for Blackburn with all guns blazing . |
| 26 | This it did for all but 150 years , becoming one of the best known and best loved of all our rural branch lines . ’ |
| 27 | Hahnemann therefore had to move frequently as restrictions on his practice were imposed in one town after another , but despite this he lectured for a time on homoeopathy in the University of Leipzig and he had a large band of influential patrons and supporters as well as a number of able and gifted pupils . |
| 28 | Shortly after this he paid for it by cheque and on request signed a statement that property in the van was not to pass to him until the cheque was cleared . |
| 29 | and I said and I was hesitating and I said I 'm sorry I said I feel a bit embarrassed he said for what reason and old Rose was with me well at door she said she knows me she said well she said if it will interest you what if I never . |
| 30 | On April 1-2 he saw for himself the effects of internecine war when he toured the Natal townships ; on April 5 , after his meeting with de Klerk , it was announced that talks would take place in the near future about the remaining obstacles to full negotiations . |