Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was to be no pay , and yet any private who failed to attend for two hours , at least twice a week , for ‘ The Exercise ’ when the troops would ‘ … go through the Evolutions together ’ would be fined two shillings . |
| 2 | Fourteen ( 15% ) of the control group failed to be seen again in a hospital diabetes clinic during the study period compared with only three ( 3.4% ) of the prompted patients who failed to attend for clinical diabetic review ( p=0.013 ; table IV ) . |
| 3 | ‘ And you know who you got to thank for that , mate , do n't you ? ’ |
| 4 | Aszal had all the documents required from a returning immigrant , but he was questioned for four hours and made to wait for four hours and then told he could go . |
| 5 | I was dead thin and not eating anything and then I got sacked for gross misconduct , y'know , for never going in and that . |
| 6 | The historical fact is that the settlement of 1688–1701 failed to settle everything ; it failed to provide for all contingencies . |
| 7 | The art seems to have died out in Crete altogether , yet mysteriously reappeared in Mycenae in the thirteenth century BC ; Sinclair Hood ( 1978 ) has suggested that after the conquest of Minoan Crete by Myceneans , the finest craftsmen may have been taken by force to the mainland and made to work for new masters . |
| 8 | They agreed to meet for three or four sessions , after which a session would be held with her parents in order to assess progress and to help Pamela further improve her communication with them . |
| 9 | The negotiators agreed to meet for further discussions but did not set a date . |
| 10 | So anyway , before I heard that I 'd got an appointment at the Clinic , I got caught for one burglary and so I told them about the rest , 'cos I wanted to get off it an ’ I knew that was the only way of getting off it and I thought , now I 've been caught , I might as well get meself stuck down for a bit , like , rather than get a big fine which I wouldn'a been able to handle at that time … . |
| 11 | The passage of the Riot Act of 1715 , which made assembling for political ( as well as other ) purposes potentially a capital offence , reveals how far the Whigs had come from the early days when they had actively promoted political demonstrations and deliberately sought an alliance with " the crowd " . |
| 12 | Sleepily she tried to adjust for this situation , flipping over and snuggling into the heated surface of his chest . |
| 13 | Josie tried to reach for some killer of an argument , a real zinger that she could pull out of the air and use to disarm all opposition . |
| 14 | That 's it ; except Nina stopped looking for any knight a long time ago . ’ |
| 15 | Provision must be made for emergencies and a degree of flexibility maintained to allow for changing circumstances , such as the introduction of a new subject or course . |
| 16 | The UK proposed to argue for more ‘ discretion ’ for individual governments , for example ‘ aiming ’ to reduce nitrate levels while being allowed to set its own rates of application of manure . |
| 17 | The abandoned house they bought needs repairs , but the agency helped to pay for some of the necessary work . |
| 18 | I do very little research apart from general reading and looking at guides — to be frank , there 's not enough money involved to pay for extensive on the ground or air research . |
| 19 | ‘ It was during the post-punk kind of period and I went through a series of bands , but I must admit I found working for other people really difficult . |
| 20 | None of this was available to the hard-pressed scholarly hacks in Gissing 's new Grub Street , or to the real-life Francis Thompson , keeping himself just alive by high-quality literary journalism , which involved working for twelve hours every day and taking no holidays . |
| 21 | I got done for that . |
| 22 | Ah he got , ah he got done for that did he ? |
| 23 | In a three-hour meeting in Bonn between Kohl and de Maizière the following day the two leaders agreed to aim for economic and monetary union on July 2 . |
| 24 | Following his daughter 's death , Hugo ceased writing for several years . |
| 25 | Later I discovered she 'd arranged for one of her friends to phone and distract me so that she could make off with her booty ! |
| 26 | In advance , using the smokescreen of Tech-Green bureaucracy , he 'd arranged for this fictional shuttle-worker to be placed on a shift which involved taking a shuttle through the gravity well to Gaiah . |
| 27 | ‘ I really came to search for some things for my collection . ’ |
| 28 | Nathan thought of the shotgun locked under his chin ; he 'd held himself so rigid that night that he 'd ached for three days afterwards . |
| 29 | Time seemed to halt for Yeremi as he saw d'Arquebus squeeze the trigger , and was sure that d'Arquebus was squandering that single shell , shooting his hellfire bolt off prematurely . |
| 30 | The on-screen couple , quietly glowing with beauty and amusement — they seemed made for each other ; but after various misunderstandings and adventures they ended up going their separate ways . |