Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [pron] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had obviously forgiven him now for all those cruel but necessary things he had said when he dropped her the year before . |
| 2 | Looking into her great eyes , their blue so dark that it was almost black , he was uncomfortably aware that having Miss Sally-Anne McAllister in the house was a most disturbing influence on a man who had not only denied himself sexually for some years , but who had rarely mixed with young women at all since he had left the army . |
| 3 | After a heart-to-heart talk , she had gently ordered him home for the rest of the week , and since that time they had been friends in a reserved sort of way . |
| 4 | Just cut them up for me then . |
| 5 | They head 600 volunteers who have already put themselves forward for 200 new Government teams which will be checking on classroom standards after September , 1993 . |
| 6 | ‘ You have rather got it in for the doctor , have n't you ? ’ said Henry easily . |
| 7 | This woman 's firm had totally ripped it off for one of the midmarket youth fashion houses . |
| 8 | The Campbells steamer his mother had once taken him on for a day trip to Ilfracombe . |
| 9 | I think you 've probably let us in for it now Frank cos she 's almost certainly going to send us some . |
| 10 | Once we had sat together in that ‘ condemned ’ gallery until evening , and the sacristan , not knowing we were there , had nearly locked us in for the night . |
| 11 | He 'd really got it in for Nigel . |
| 12 | Erm , just a point of information , I think er on the hundred and thirty-one million , including the Lincoln , and I think er they would have been you would have been under serious er distress on that , because the information I have had from the Department of Transport , is that if the Lincoln scheme had gone ahead , it would have effectively blocked everything else for the next five years , and that would n't have done you any good , from where you 're elected , either . |
| 13 | The price is so basic that , if the parties have expressly left it over for later agreement , the court may well conclude that the parties did not intend to make and have not made , a contract . |
| 14 | It has not inherited this behaviour ; it has either worked it out for itself , or learned it by observing another chimpanzee . |
| 15 | He might not have been able to dodge the water , but they 'd never pinned him down for the Instruction . |
| 16 | Now I won that game , losing just two ‘ pieces ’ , but only after I left with the comeliest ‘ piece ’ of all , a wench from the imperial harem , did Suleiman discover that I had cheated and publicly marked me down for death . |
| 17 | well then if I go onto a medium , then you 're getting all this length and all this business here , all that business and it 's too much , if I could of found a four I 'd certainly tried it on for swimming you know , but I do n't want it all baggy and horrible you know |