Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I took a liberty at 8-2 and got punished for it , ’ said Parrott . |
| 2 | And when Gittel cut my pride and my heart into pieces with her little sharp fingernails , and I let loose the dybbuk on her and got punished for it , I was neither one thing nor the other , once again . ’ |
| 3 | However , this morning Beth Christie was brighter than usual ; she planned to shop for the dinner party she was holding later in the week . |
| 4 | There was to be no pay , and yet any private who failed to attend for two hours , at least twice a week , for ‘ The Exercise ’ when the troops would ‘ … go through the Evolutions together ’ would be fined two shillings . |
| 5 | Fourteen ( 15% ) of the control group failed to be seen again in a hospital diabetes clinic during the study period compared with only three ( 3.4% ) of the prompted patients who failed to attend for clinical diabetic review ( p=0.013 ; table IV ) . |
| 6 | If the patient failed to attend for their clinic/colonoscopy then a repeat appointment was made . |
| 7 | 4 subjects failed to attend for assessment at 4 weeks although they remained in the study . |
| 8 | ‘ And you know who you got to thank for that , mate , do n't you ? ’ |
| 9 | For example , if they failed to arrange for a minor repair in the science labs and a pupil was hurt as a result , they might be guilty of a safety offence . |
| 10 | She said I got to go for erm pregnancy test . |
| 11 | The Oxford Regional Health Authority introduced ‘ the 80/20 rule , ’ under which fundholders agreed to contract for 80% of their hospital services budget in the first year to go to the same hospitals as in the preparatory year , leaving them free to move the remaining 20% if they so wished . |
| 12 | I could only speculate whether the industrial activity required to produce the clock radio and the telephone they wanted to give me , and all the ongoing activity to service those industries and their customers , would not cause more pollution , lead to more acid rain , and so destroy more trees than the one they planned to plant for me . |
| 13 | Erm on the on the twenty third or thereabouts on the twenty third of March of this year I myself got stopped for drink driving . |
| 14 | No seat belt , he got stopped for it yesterday . |
| 15 | He got assassinated for being too you know . |
| 16 | Australia 's toxic waste became an international problem in September , when 18 tons from Western Australia were shunted around Europe until France agreed to arrange for their disposal [ see ED 63 ] . |
| 17 | Aszal had all the documents required from a returning immigrant , but he was questioned for four hours and made to wait for four hours and then told he could go . |
| 18 | She was heavily pregnant but she was questioned and made to wait for the next twelve hours without food or water . |
| 19 | I was dead thin and not eating anything and then I got sacked for gross misconduct , y'know , for never going in and that . |
| 20 | The historical fact is that the settlement of 1688–1701 failed to settle everything ; it failed to provide for all contingencies . |
| 21 | A police search is under way for a businessman accused of attempting to export a military camera to the Soviet Union after he failed to appear for committal proceedings at Rugby Magistrates Court . |
| 22 | The £172,000 prop failed to appear for Leeds on Sunday , and yesterday confirmed his disenchantment at Headingley by asking for a move . |
| 23 | They took the lead courtesy of Trevor Smith 's sixth goal of the season but were pegged back by an equaliser from Johnny Jameson who failed to appear for the second half . |
| 24 | It sought to provide for workers ' retirement by broad , diversified investment in the American economy , that is , in equities . |
| 25 | The art seems to have died out in Crete altogether , yet mysteriously reappeared in Mycenae in the thirteenth century BC ; Sinclair Hood ( 1978 ) has suggested that after the conquest of Minoan Crete by Myceneans , the finest craftsmen may have been taken by force to the mainland and made to work for new masters . |
| 26 | Ledgered bread failed to catch for the first hour but a switch to three bronze maggot on a size 14 hook presented over the far side found chub to 2 lb 8 oz from peg one . |
| 27 | They agreed to meet for three or four sessions , after which a session would be held with her parents in order to assess progress and to help Pamela further improve her communication with them . |
| 28 | The negotiators agreed to meet for further discussions but did not set a date . |
| 29 | The new rules for taxing manufactured interest , payments made to compensate for the loss of interest , where for instance a security is ‘ sold cum interest ’ but acquired by the seller ex interest in order to meet the sale , took effect on 29 June 1992 and apply from 30 June 1992 . |
| 30 | The threshold time is therefore automatically raised or lowered to compensate for the reader being swept too slowly or too quickly . |