Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv prt] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Couple of chaps at the school got booted out for that stuff and I never did get round to it . ’ |
| 2 | Everton , still without their regular centre-backs Ratcliffe and Watson because of injury , again tried to make up for this by playing Snodin as a spare centre-back behind Keown and McDonald . |
| 3 | But the the people I met made up for that . |
| 4 | He 'd sat up for most of the night brooding about it , wondering what her reaction to him would be , finally deciding that he could n't wait until the evening to find out . |
| 5 | She 'd saved up for many months . |
| 6 | When his wife died he began to look around for another ; someone who would give him the children he needed . |
| 7 | McLaren then began shopping around for another label , pointedly ignoring Virgin . |
| 8 | You know them that we got to send off for that , I got head bag and you got that ? |
| 9 | The sergeant looked at her closely , obviously wondering if she planned to run off for some reason . |
| 10 | ‘ So , I started looking around for another job and heard that Mike Martinez , the agent , was looking for someone to do some secretarial work and some negotiating , and that he preferred English girls for such work . |
| 11 | Hugo glanced at his watch , and decided to press on for another half-hour . |
| 12 | Shrimp kept going up for some water , trod on Andrew . |
| 13 | No matter how dismally he fared , he kept coming back for more . |
| 14 | Mm , you sent sent off for all your |
| 15 | But one matter the Society resisted pronouncing on for some time was the question of its own criteria for membership . |
| 16 | Though Locke did go in for some experimental work , his main contribution to the ethos of the Society was to do what Bacon had quite failed to do . |
| 17 | yeah that 's lovely , we did put in for some in February , we have this one in the we have n't got a cover that one . |
| 18 | The peasants in the Roslavl' region did come in for some attention during 1922 , though supervision was at best paternalistic , sporadic , and myopic . |
| 19 | Was there ever a time when you had to go in for more drastic measures ? |
| 20 | If Attlee had carried on for another year , and the economy had turned round , Labour might still be in power . |
| 21 | The train was electrically lighted , and in order to economise current when the train had to stand by for some time , nearly every lamp was under separate control . |
| 22 | Lincoln , in turn , came across the mystery in de Sede 's book Le Tresor Maudit ( The Cursed Treasure ) , which he had picked up for some light holiday reading . |
| 23 | Claims for damages against British accountancy firms have proliferated since the 1970s , when the aggressively litigious environment that US accountants had operated in for many years spread to the UK . |
| 24 | As so often on this tour , Rubin Smith and Lamb were the main architects , both playing aggressively after David Smith , flown out to replace the injured Gooch , had hung around for some time to get accustomed to the conditions only to get a bruised thumb in the process . |
| 25 | She had saved up for such a long time and did n't want to carry a load of coins around . |
| 26 | The first person she had opened up for that morning had been the postman at five past eight . |
| 27 | So then I had to put in for another grant because he 'd smashed every damn thing . |
| 28 | We bought some after we had laid out for most of ours |
| 29 | The silence had stretched out for some time . |
| 30 | And this had gone on for some time and he was down on the shore anyway one night and looking out across the the sea and thinking long for Eday and he met this man . |