Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A decade ago , Kung Fu martial arts films were banned by Zambian cinemas after Kaunda attacked them for encouraging violence amongst youths . |
| 2 | The staff and right leg propelled me for forty yards until the leg gave way and the injured one , without a thought , took the strain and I ended up on my hands and knees ranting and raving . |
| 3 | You asked me for that ? |
| 4 | He asked me for 50,000 francs for Félix . |
| 5 | No one asked me for any comment . |
| 6 | ‘ Yes Dad , she asked me for some help . ’ |
| 7 | They asked me for more money . |
| 8 | I went to Hemel Hempstead er a school called in Hemel Hempstead that was only from the August till December when I left school and then the erm then the Headmistress , cos we had a Headmistress there cos it was a mixed school , and she recommended me for this here errand boy 's job , his name was . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'd have gone there last year but for the shin splints ’ she added , before a note of irritation and frustration became evident as she went on to say ‘ This question haunted me for half of last year . |
| 10 | So he sold them for four X. |
| 11 | I sold them for fifteen pounds . |
| 12 | Mr Singleton sold them for two pounds each . |
| 13 | Yeah , they we got them for thirty so mind you |
| 14 | My dad probably got them for fifty each , if he said a hundred . |
| 15 | About thirty nine quid they charged me for three . |
| 16 | ‘ They acted as judge and jury and suspended me for ten weeks without a trial . |
| 17 | Even when he scolded them for some minor wrongdoing , he would cite the great orators like Cicero or Burke , as if he was taking part in a parliamentary debate , instead of addressing two small boys . |
| 18 | He did not like this and changed them for two of the same length . |
| 19 | It achieved temperatures over a million degrees and sustained them for several milliseconds . |
| 20 | ‘ We designed them for this . |
| 21 | Sixty pound fifty it cost me for six months ! |
| 22 | I just knew I was inspired when I proposed you for this job here , that it would come back to me in some incredible way . |
| 23 | So what did she say about the money when you tried her for less money ? |
| 24 | For Prothero is the demon-king of the Poundian pantomime , ever since Pound cast him for this role by printing , at the end of his essay on De Gourmont — originally in the Little Review , then in Instigations ( 1920 ) — the letter which Prothero wrote him in October 1914 : |
| 25 | And she scolded him for frightening children Adam , six , Louise , four , and two-year-old Carl . |
| 26 | The fisherman 's wife , however , chastised him for this simple request and returned to the shore , there to harangue the Golden Fish with her demands for jewels , wealth and status . |
| 27 | Without being aware of it , he punished her for this deeply felt bodily rejection in bed by withdrawing his body out of bed . |
| 28 | Coleridge awoke , he said , retaining ‘ a distinct recollection of the whole ’ , and was eagerly committing the poem to writing when he was called out by a person on business from Porlock who detained him for more than an hour . |
| 29 | The Russian official recently so upset his domestic association that they suspended him for two months , although UEFA insist : ‘ He 's still one of the best referees in Europe and the right man for the job . ’ |
| 30 | The Russian official recently so upset his domestic association that they suspended him for two months , although UEFA insist : ‘ He 's still one of the best referees in Europe and the right man for the job . ’ |