Example sentences of "[adv] [noun prp] [vb past] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beatty turned it down as not being a big enough role , and so Polanski went for Robert Redford . |
| 2 | So Malcolm sprang for the script . |
| 3 | Outside this borough , however , only Dedham counted for much . |
| 4 | At eleven o'clock Tony went for a drink , but the bottle was empty . |
| 5 | His dogs looked as if they might be dangerous and so Coetzee reached for a tried and tested method for solving the problem — strychnine . |
| 6 | Hitherto Switzerland accounted for a third of all hazardous waste imported into Britain . |
| 7 | Anyway Kerslake played for Spurs and he played shit . |
| 8 | Normally Rachel slept for a few hours after the feed and Carrie had made sure her husband knew what to do should the baby wake up before she got home . |
| 9 | Usually Peter paid for whatever they did . |
| 10 | A week later Maxine arrived for her next consultation . |
| 11 | Whenever Robinson struck for a grip he moved quickly and broke it , never allowing the older man to settle . |
| 12 | Frantically Brown scrabbled for the phone that would connect his with his Special Agent in Kensington . |
| 13 | Moments later Rachel saw for herself that the man 's hands were indeed covered in tiny red blisters . |
| 14 | Stephen and Tony were both in reserved occupations but Joe and Terry were called up into the Irish Guards and sent to Caterham Barracks and a week later Eileen left for the WAAFs . |
| 15 | Now Houghton reached for the first file and took out the piece of card that bore the fingerprints of a possible match . |
| 16 | Periodically Moreau translated for the benefit of his countrymen , who thereupon continued to behave in the manner of stage Frenchmen , with much shrugging and stifled Gallic oaths . |
| 17 | Here Heatley stayed for some months , working with A.J. Moyer , a first-rate investigator of fermentation processes but also an anti-British isolationist , in the development of deep fermentation ( instead of surface culture ) . |
| 18 | Here Dickens stayed for his holiday one year , baulked of being able to rant Fort House as he desired . |
| 19 | Mostly nowadays Hugo took for granted all the assets that talent had brought him . |
| 20 | They came to a simple fence which was crossed by a stile , and here Alina rested for a couple of minutes before going on . |
| 21 | Even Hepworth shifted for a while into distribution after losing a regular order from the US for up to 40 copies of every film he made . |
| 22 | Even O'Connor testified for the defence , claiming that he had no idea who had ordered the attack upon him . |
| 23 | Then Swindon asked for a million pounds , Chelsea offered nothing , and Hoddle was valued at a maximum of 175 thousand pounds . |
| 24 | Gatting , back after serving three years of a five-year ban for his part in the rebel tour of South Africa , has unselfishly not forgotten how Gower fought for him to be his understudy in the sub-continent . |
| 25 | Anyone see how McLaren played for scotland ? |
| 26 | Initially Mitterrand pressed for a rejection of the Senate 's amendments on the grounds that they amounted to an attempt to elevate the powers of the indirectly elected Senate to those of the directly elected National Assembly . |
| 27 | And there Anne stood for the rest of the day , a lonely little girl with a small white angry face . |
| 28 | The idea of eating these things seemed absurd , and yet Pinkie asked for some . |
| 29 | in the pool where Arethusa rose for air |
| 30 | Time passing never softened the impact of that moment when she looked down the table to where Twomey waited for Aunt Tossie to give her attention to the pudding he offered . |