Example sentences of "[det] [pers pn] [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This I endured for several months , having no spirit even to complain . |
| 2 | This I did for five weeks returning to hospital to have my X-rays checked . |
| 3 | This it did for all but 150 years , becoming one of the best known and best loved of all our rural branch lines . ’ |
| 4 | She also heard some hot gospel music — and liked it so much she asked for more . |
| 5 | ‘ How much you pay for this ? ’ asked a lad in a Michael Jackson T-shirt , hopefully . |
| 6 | How much we get for that ? |
| 7 | In civilian parlance Major Mike Herriott , Who runs No 4 Region , could be described as the ‘ District Catering Operations Manager ’ , and as such he arranges for each of the twenty Master Chefs to receive regular visits from one of the team of three Area Catering Officers ( ACOs ) or six Area Catering Warrant Officers ( ACWOs ) . |
| 8 | There was such regret , such a bleakness in his eyes that Lissa turned away , her soul crying out in anguish because it was plain for anyone to see how much he cared for this woman who had betrayed him . |
| 9 | You know communications is a very big area there 's a lot to be talked about erm certainly rapport and leading and things like that you asked for that we could 've done a lot more with , the type of language people use we could do a lot more with but when we 've got a limited time we 're gon na have to take a limited snapshot and I hope that what we 've done so far today you found useful and I hope when we put it into practice tomorrow maybe you can understand a little bit more of some of things that we 've been talking about today . |
| 10 | Now if , well , certainly there 's a lot more complicated things in complex numbers , you should , all you really done , is to , this thing about the complex you get them work out some algebra , you go out and Z square some algebra and then you 've done the complex with some algebra and with the use of plus and minus signs in there , it 's a little bit tricky , but nothing , that , that , at A level that you should n't be able to handle , right , and once you 've got that you look for some new , just , working and the least , and deciding what happened when you 've actually got . |
| 11 | All I know for definite is he lives down in Armagh , not so far from Newry , in the hills . |
| 12 | It was still dark , that 's all I know for certain . |
| 13 | ‘ All I know for certain is that Sabine Jourdain had a row with a man on board the Jonquil before she was taken dead from the water , and that man was Tarquin Poulteney-Crosse . ’ |
| 14 | All I know for sure , sir , is that we have a mysterious plane lying on the sea-bed there . |
| 15 | And all I got for that was a couple of tin medals , uh uh , aye dear Aye . |
| 16 | All you earned for that was a belting . |
| 17 | All you need for each one is a piece of knitting beginning with a hem at the wrist , wide enough to go round the hand and long enough to reach easily to the base of the fingers . |
| 18 | Which is why you must do that sort of That that 's probably all you need for that bit . |
| 19 | He said he did n't really know ; it was all so bloody complicated , all he knew for sure was there were two types , aggressive and non-aggressive ; one was curable and one was n't and he — thank God — had the one that was . |
| 20 | ’ All he knew for sure was that the stuff went off-planet . |
| 21 | Her father had been glad to get out to the woods where he led a gang , made a living and found , in his daughter Kitty , all he wanted for softer pleasures . |
| 22 | Talk of a Mexican devaluation , and all it entails for foreign investment , is an issue the authorities can not will away . |
| 23 | Sometimes the bible surprises us a little bit of course , and it puts it finger on things that we perhaps do n't really want to talk about or we do n't even consider as sins and the bible is quite clear that not all sins are what we do often there what we do n't do in parable that Jesus told concerning the traveller , the man who went down to Jericho , we do n't condemn the priest and the levite for what they did , but we do condemn them for what they did n't do , their sin was not what they did , it was what they left undone , going over and looking at the man was very note worthy , as least there was some interest there and we do n't condemn them for that , but we do condemn them for hurrying along and not reaching out and helping the man in the Pistol of James and chapter four and verse seventeen James says there , any one then who knows the good he ought to do and does n't do it , sins so the sins that you and I comment or the sins rather that we are guilty of are not just the things that we do there of times the things that we do n't do and sometimes there more difficult for us to put a finger on , we can justify them so very easily its been said that all it needs for evil to triumph , is for good men to say or to do nothing well lets look at the , that , illu illustration there that we have in the second book of kings . |
| 24 | I was very proud of those she made for outdoor wear , perhaps because they were different ; they were generally made from offcuts of the various dress lengths being made up into ladies ' costumes . |
| 25 | the , the more you argue for this economy , and the more you argue no this is , this really is how the peasant felt and he that the peasant really erm did n't have any ideas of changing society at that of the landlord system the more I assume that one would support this kind of rent reduction , interest rate reduction campaign which allows you to slowly build up that mobilization which is necessary . |
| 26 | C. H. Herford , Professor of English Literature at Manchester , pointed out in 1918 that " English " or " English Language and Literature " was " a loose name for a group of studies differing in educational aim , and in the faculties they appealed to , and those they demanded for successful prosecution " . |
| 27 | But people do n't but th they do n't go for that they go for that because they do n't like the taste of chlorine . |