Example sentences of "one [vb past] [vb pp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | A packed hall had responded attentively to his intense , vocally elegant , performances of arias by Scarlatti , Stradella , Meyerbeer , Donizetti , Cilea and the Spanish composer Pablo Sorozabal , but with the opening instrumental strains of Catari in his first encore the vast audience suddenly burst into the kind of wildly enthusiastic applause that one had waited for all evening . |
| 2 | Four years later the England selection committee saw the semi-circle during their visit to Switzerland and Italy , and wondered why no one had called for its use at home . |
| 3 | It becomes clear after one has been working at something for several weeks , he typed ( as Harsnet had written ) , that one is not going to achieve what one had hoped for . |
| 4 | Parental attitudes , like early physical-care practices , have not turned out to be the clear-cut determinants of personality development one had hoped for . |
| 5 | It was fatal to be out alone after dark , one had asked for it . |
| 6 | Apart from the inherent improbability that the Lockerbie investigators never thought to ask for it , that it was left to a clerk to print out a copy on her own initiative before the computer wiped the record , only to return weeks later from holiday to find that still no one had asked for it , and that the BKA , after being given the list , sat on it for months before passing it along to the Scottish police , there remained the problem of the FBI teletype which left open the possibility that no such bag from Malta was ever loaded on Flight 103 . |
| 7 | Dorothy One had died for something she believed in ( though Margaret was not quite sure what it was ) , but she 'd have helped keep Dorothy Two if she 'd lived . |