Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [vb past] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | My heart ached for her as I realised that she had joined the ranks of so many others I had known , who had watched their men fly off into the dusk , never to be heard of again . |
| 2 | My heart froze for a second , as if I had put on an elaborate disguise and suddenly been addressed by name — I did n't feel safe any more . |
| 3 | My heart pounded for love , |
| 4 | Here , high interest rates and lowish inflation are good news for all those depositors my editor took for granted . |
| 5 | It was one evening when I happened to be valeting him , Mr Charles told me he had come across my father some years earlier while a guest at Loughborough House — the home of Mr John Silvers , the industrialist , where my father served for fifteen years at the height of his career . |
| 6 | ‘ My father worked for them . |
| 7 | My father paid for my digs in Paddington and gave me a pound a week pocket money , together with what he called ‘ travelling expenses ’ for my regular visit home ( home and a good , square meal ) , and to spend some time with Clare who was fifteen and slowly , very slowly , improving . |
| 8 | And , even though it 's none of your business , for your information , my father paid for it . ’ |
| 9 | In autumn my father watched for boys who climbed in to steal his apples but was stumped by their shamelessness even when caught red-handed . |
| 10 | ‘ Then you must also realize that for me to do what the Brigadier suggests would be a betrayal of everything my father stood for and gave his life for . ’ |
| 11 | I remember my uncle caddied for James Braid . |
| 12 | Luckily , in a place the size of Scampton it was easy enough to keep out of her path , and this I did quite successfully until my turn came for demobilisation . |
| 13 | Dawn 's nervousness while she was attached to my hand lasted for quite a while and there was nothing I could do about it other than reassure her . |
| 14 | My hand groped for the light in terror as I wondered what this object could be . |
| 15 | The crunch came when my bank asked for my credit card back and demanded I pay off the overdraft at once . |
| 16 | My stomach did for a while , as it did not like the vapours given out by the hops in the borough market after the sea air it had been used to in Hastings , but one can not live on sea air . |
| 17 | Oh God , I hope my belly spoke for me better than my fucking brain , in other words . |
| 18 | On the fourth shelf my dolls danced for me . |
| 19 | During my time at college , my brother went for officer training and was commissioned in the Sherwood Foresters . |
| 20 | My mother argued for a while that the dry heat was known to be bracing , but Lili went on to speak of rumours of a cholera epidemic in the rural districts and disaffection among the fellahin and I said I would rather go to Bournemouth , which was a black lie but efficacious since we had gone there for our holidays and my mother seemed gratified that I should wish to return . |
| 21 | My grandad fought for them all his life , but the things you 're talking about , they 're only scratching the surface . ’ |
| 22 | Only one in 100 workers in California 's fields is a union member , although many farm employers now provide the health benefits which Chavez fought for . |
| 23 | When I asked Mrs Zamzam what her sons did for a living , a young man interrupted to say that they all worked ‘ for the revolution ’ . |
| 24 | Tallis felt a surging flow of sap ; her bark ached for this young man . |
| 25 | Few of her governesses stayed for long and , with the exception of two terms at a French convent near Tours , she had little formal education . |
| 26 | She had never thought that her hair stood for anything other than passion and desire to Benedict . |
| 27 | Suddenly her heart ached for the sight of her native country , for the sounds and scents and the voices of her own people . |
| 28 | Fascinated Athelstan watched the strange hand signs which Philippa translated for him . |
| 29 | This grouping sought to oppose the civil rights programme in which Truman called for the establishment of a more powerful Fair Employment Practices Commission , a law to make lynching a Federal crime , and the removal of obstacles preventing blacks from voting . |
| 30 | Its teeth went for his throat . |