Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He lived down Gypsy Lane with his two sisters , he was a single man you see and my father and mother lived here and my , they not only mended shoes but they made them and er course naturally , you know , well of course Needham was n't as big as it is now but they made them for the best people , if that , if that 's the right , not the right expression say , but er but you know what I mean er and er and he , you know , all his life you see he did that and then one day he had a shock because his er , what would you call him colleague , he , he died suddenly in the night . |
| 2 | And she asked me for the fifty P . |
| 3 | I sold them for the same price that I had paid myself . |
| 4 | There was a period of incredibly intense excitement which , I think , probably sustained me for the next five or ten years . |
| 5 | She lashed the class with scorn and ridicule and punished them for the nasty thoughts in her own mind . |
| 6 | James Boswell , for example , often used them for the former , even occasionally , apparently , for the latter ; but never it seems with his wife . |
| 7 | Our canvas stretcher-beds were quickly drenched with blood , because we used them for the worst wounded — the others had to be laid on the tiled floor . |
| 8 | It was in 1977 and ‘ 78 that McEvoy won this title before Ronan Rafferty beat him for the first ( and only ) time in nearly 30 matches for England . |
| 9 | Britain 's golden boy who lost his shine when newcomer David Grindley beat him for the final place in today 's 400 metres final is ready to take a year off from the track if it means he can beat the trouble . |
| 10 | This back parlour , Hope thought , as he entered it for the third time that day , is like a little theatre : Act I , Colonel Moore ; Act II , Amaryllis ; Act III |
| 11 | He had one made up , used it for the first time in the 1989 Jersey Open and finished joint fifth , 5-under par and only two behind play-off victor Christy O'Connor Jnr . |
| 12 | Just then he noticed me for the first time . |
| 13 | Unfortunately , for example , he believed certain things which were wrong ( such as the tenets of Unitarianism ) , and he believed them for the wrong reasons ( such as the theistic proofs ) . |
| 14 | I had each Wednesday afternoon off from Russell 's and he enroled me , secretly , into his school for lessons with his normal classes , He and his wife held a weekly open house and these cramming sessions prepared me for the coming Halton entrance examination . |
| 15 | He buggered me for the first time that night , reaching round and putting his hand over my mouth , tearing me in two . |
| 16 | Then Folly reached the top of the steps , and the woman noticed her for the first time . |
| 17 | To cover the fact that she had far too many feelings altogether , she ignored him for the first part of the morning . |
| 18 | Fraulein Winkelmann told him for the Good God 's sake to get the papers fast , and Bruno went away and came back and pointed the Luger yet again . |
| 19 | ‘ We do n't want you to be neglected , ’ I told him for the umptieth time . |
| 20 | ‘ Not today , thank you , ’ I told him for the umptieth time . |
| 21 | … nothing prepared her for the angry letter she received from the Duke of Edinburgh soon afterwards . |
| 22 | ‘ You dropped him for the Prime Minister . ’ |
| 23 | Jean Cocteau , Peggy Guggenheim tells us in her autobiography Confessions of an Art Addict , received her for the first time comfortably horizontal between the sheets , smoking opium . |
| 24 | It was an experience which steeled him for the future task of having as many as a dozen major country houses under construction in any one year . |
| 25 | Putting their dinner on the table , Trent reached for the photograph and studied it for the umpteenth time since finding it on Don Roberto 's piano — his mother , and the Colonel as a young man . |
| 26 | Nothing , however , quite prepared us for the momentous last months of this decade . |
| 27 | That was when I met you for the first time , last week , at the consciousness-raising group that we started at the women 's centre a few weeks ago . |
| 28 | Max joined me for the last nine of my eighteen-months ' stint in Sun City . |
| 29 | Teesdale District Council turned down an application for the sign on the ground of it contravening the town area local plan but the inspector said it was acceptable and allowed it for the next five years . |
| 30 | Thomasino Boyd , who joined us for the last couple of years , and before that ( in Scots accent ) Doogie Rae . |