Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] for [pron] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Even if anyone came in for me I would n't want to go before the end of the season .
2 Then the Airds came back for something they had forgotten .
3 Well , then how do you explain the night I put down a copy of Viz , turned on the telly , and settled in for what I thought would be a programme of smart , irreverent comedy ?
4 Joanna said , ‘ I had an uncle — he 's dead now , but I used to spend a lot of time in his surgery — and , apart from the essentials , he never went in for what he called expensive gimmicks .
5 Unless we can get professional managers who are as good entrepreneurially as those who set up for themselves we shall have major problems ahead .
6 I 'm sure Father Chris would be pleased to hear that and would be very flattered to hear that as well but erm he 's erm I 'm sure he does try to live by those rules because er obviously that 's one of the bases of his life but erm I was thinking more in terms of somebody who stood up for themse stood up for what they believe in in a situation where it was difficult .
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