Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [vb past] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | But all the old miners I met , contemporaries of Orwell , remembered the arrival of the baths , thought they were wonderful , yet could n't remember how they came or who fought for them . |
| 2 | said to me about Pauline 's kids her three lads , not the baby like the two lads she said , oh she said er they came to play one night , or they came for tea or something and she goes to work at night you know , she said Paul was looking after them and she said , he said you could hear all this banging up and down the stairs , he said , bloody hell he said they were going mad , and I thought that 's what Tom and Hannah do when they come here , I said your two bang up and down like bloody anything I said that 's normal , you know for kids . |
| 3 | Friendship there , or what passed for friendship , never crossed the great divide of political allegiance and in the acrimonious clamour of the staffroom could swiftly deteriorate into gossip , rumours , recriminations and betrayal . |
| 4 | The first indication of the direction his mind ( or what passed for it ) was moving had come at the beginning of the trial when he called in two other judges to help determine whether the free pardon that Meehan had been granted quashed his conviction . |
| 5 | The sound was over and silence was back , or what passed for silence here . |
| 6 | A phosphorus grenade rolled in through the door , and everyone dived for cover . |
| 7 | ‘ I did n't understand what he meant , and nothing happened for a few weeks , so I did not feel so worried . |
| 8 | Sally and I looked for something local and intense , a compromise between a traverse of the Meije in the wake of great names , or a pass crossing in the wake of a continental alpine course . |
| 9 | He had my old measurements and I apologised for all that I was doing to his calculations . |
| 10 | Then it began to rain hard and I sheltered for a long time in a barn , but I could n't stay there all night so I just walked and got thoroughly soaked . |
| 11 | When I came back , I went to the children 's room , to see if they needed me , and I listened for a moment at their door . |
| 12 | It is very important indeed to ensure that the staff of G C H Q are not subject to potential conflicts of interest and as I said earlier the Prime Minister and I listened for some considerable time to the s to er to the points put forward by the trade unions to see whether or not that overriding er national objective could be maintained but we were not convinced , we were not convinced that erm the trade unions could overcome those potential conflicts of interest and it behoves ill the party opposite to try and put a different gloss on the fact that we in this country thanks to our legislation , have put harmony in place of strife and we are not prepared to allow the opposition to put that major achievement at risk . |
| 13 | She was a kind and gentle girl and I cared for her greatly . |
| 14 | He stood up and I noticed for the first time a bunch of keys at his belt . |
| 15 | He looked slightly abstracted ; and I noticed for the first time that his habit of addressing remarks with head bowed — often appearing to contemplate the floor or the ‘ figure in the carpet ’ — had begun to bring about that slight spinal curvature which became accentuated later in life though not without adding to his dignity of bearing . |
| 16 | Her pink flying suit had two dirty orbs where her backside had imprinted itself on the ground and I noticed for the first time that her trainers were at least size 9 ( men 's ) . |
| 17 | Fenella took a deep breath and I noticed for the first time just how impressively she could breathe . |
| 18 | ‘ To begin with , I worked for the family , pushing the churns round the streets on the milk-cart , but then I got too old for that , and I applied for work with the Dock workers Guild at Jubilee Wharf . ’ |
| 19 | take it in the end but erm anyway I got this diploma and er then I was quite annoyed because erm Social Services then erm pu the Welfare for the Blind was dealt with by the Public Health Department and a vacancy occurred in the Public Health Department for erm Blind Welfare Officer , or at least a Welfare Officer for the Blind and I applied for it and erm , they er did n't make an appointment because they did n't er get in other applications but they di they did n't offer me the appointment . |
| 20 | And I applied for that job , and I got it . |
| 21 | This was the visible humanitarian face of elite soldiering , and I fell for it . |
| 22 | And I fell for it . |
| 23 | And I apologized for what I 'd done , sold the firewood , took 'em home again . |
| 24 | And I read for about an hour . |
| 25 | It was pure showbiz , and I noted for later that Allan 's shorts , which were similar to those that some Americans and Italians were wearing , had played a not inconsiderable part . |
| 26 | Professor Pearn and I had for the last ten years been interchangeably secretary and editor of the Burma Research Society , and when we discovered that the Society 's bank had been able to get our balance safely into India before the break-up , we conceived the plan of a series of Burma Pamphlets , describing various aspects of the national life . |
| 27 | I thought about telling him the arrangement Laura and I had for that night , then decided against it . |
| 28 | It was such a shame that he felt like that and could n't recognize the true and deep affection that Terry , Brian and I had for him . |
| 29 | Anyway , I was congratulated once more and I realised for the first time that I was actually doing some good . |
| 30 | I am sure de Macon had his hand on his dagger hilt and I realised for all they knew I could be a member of the Luciferi . |