Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [verb] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er he 's gone to Barnsley , cos they asked me to ask for this , gone to Barnsley . |
| 2 | He took us to the Þingvellir National park where the clouds parted and the sun shone on square kilometres of snow that was so clean and pure it made me weep for all the time we had lost on the trip , and for the pleasure of being where I wanted to be . |
| 3 | She seemed so happy and positive and the thing that made me opt for that hospital was when she said , ‘ Childbirth is the woman 's experience , we 're just here to back you up . ’ |
| 4 | Nerves got the better of me and only when Les Cox stopped me to go for another take did I realise I 'd got my letters mixed up and had inadvertently said : ‘ Will you switch these sans off please ? |
| 5 | I also proposed they aim for all other dogs ( except known or obvious ‘ nasties ’ ) and people , and to speak encouragingly to Moby as they did so , to keep him relaxed . |
| 6 | Not content with Mont Blanc , last year found him searching for another challenge . |
| 7 | He waited , out of long experience with dominant characters , until a natural break occurred and used it to ask for some background , starting with how long the Minister had known Miss Morgan . |
| 8 | I said that someone in Montefiore 's position should check his facts before sounding off , and advised him to campaign for more resources all round instead of trying to trade one disadvantaged group off against another . |
| 9 | What made you apply for this particular job ? |
| 10 | Perhaps the title led one to hope for more of a synthesis than is possible in the space . |
| 11 | In the silence that followed I reached for another scone . |
| 12 | She heard him reach for another sandwich . |
| 13 | It was this disappearance that really roused my suspicion , and started me searching for some kind of pattern to make sense of these changes . |
| 14 | However thirty-six hours before she died she telephoned for some of us to visit ; she knew we had all been worried and concerned but she had it all under control . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'll tell Mr Wilcox she 's here , ’ said Brian Everthorpe , and Robyn thought she saw him wink for some inscrutable reason . |
| 16 | A few years before he died he posed for this effigy , placing the completed picture in his room , adjacent to his bed , as a memento mori . |
| 17 | Chance is chiefly remembered for the Chance process , for the recovery of sulphur in the Leblanc process , which enabled it to weather for another thirty years the challenge from the ammonia-soda process used by the Solvay Company in Belgium and its British partner , Brunner , Mond & Co . |
| 18 | Where did you go for that ? |
| 19 | What did you draw for that Ruth ? |
| 20 | What did you draw for that ? |
| 21 | But er How much did you pay for that black one ? |
| 22 | How much did you pay for this pen in the market ? |
| 23 | What did you do for that ? |
| 24 | What hours did you do for that ? |
| 25 | So what did you do for this one ? |
| 26 | And then what did you do for this next bit ? |
| 27 | What what did you do for this job ? |
| 28 | Who did you rob for this ? ’ |
| 29 | Did you play for any of the other Sun artists ? |
| 30 | ‘ O Jesus Christ , ’ he said , looking over my shoulder as if JC had just wandered in from the garden , ‘ did you die for this boy ? ’ |