Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or asked for it . |
| 2 | The unequal status which women possess in society results in a situation in which what they have to say is for many purposes discounted or reinterpreted for them . |
| 3 | They assemble in colonies many thousand strong and nest in long holes that they have either taken over from rabbits or dug for themselves . |
| 4 | At least , if she was unhappy , or fretted for her family , she did n't say so . |
| 5 | So too wealth should be used as a means to good ends , but never be sought or enjoyed for its own sake . |
| 6 | They never came and bawled him or nattered for it . |
| 7 | He surprised the nation with the announcement , made in a radio and television broadcast on Saturday night , that his government has refused registration to any of the 13 political associations that applied for it . |
| 8 | It 's the formula that succeeded for me , I know it will do the same for you . ’ |
| 9 | No : amor matris , a force that stopped for nothing . |
| 10 | It must have been the word " social " that created for her this image , a word judiciously expunged from later versions of the verse . |
| 11 | They brought a huge van and they were so pleased , these men that came for them . |
| 12 | AD 140 ) explicitly stated , for example , that it was the blood of Christ that paid for our sins . |
| 13 | The work that began for me then , with friends all over South Africa , led up to the Pretoria Conference last Easter , 1974 . |
| 14 | And you had to get out on the floor that catered for your particular dominant moral propensity , and stay there for the whole of Eternity . |
| 15 | She ‘ stoutly defended ’ her new home , saying that her first husband ‘ was no husband for her , and the one that worked for her she respected ’ . |
| 16 | The high street stores , and even the designers , are finding there is great value in maintaining , shapes , colours and styles that worked for them in previous seasons . |
| 17 | All our buddies that worked for us for 50 years were just living and drinking and eating like fucking Rome … it was just hell and it had to stop . ’ |
| 18 | W. Hewer and myself towards Westminster ; and there he carried me to Nott 's , the famous bookbinder , that bound for my Lord Chancellor 's library : and there I did take occasion for curiosity to bespeak a book to be bound , only that I might have one of his binding . |
| 19 | I think it 's fine to remember — and we bloody well should remember the people that died for us and the people who are maimed and around the twist because of it . |
| 20 | For him Plymouth was the worst , and that went for me too . |
| 21 | And there was seven people that went for it and only six could do it and , I was n't gon na do it and what happened right , my name does n't , was n't picked out and er , there was this one boy , right that right , this boy called Gavin and he was n't there today . |
| 22 | It was all play-acting , a bluff to get attention , but he never admitted it nor apologized for anything he had done or said . |
| 23 | A number than went for him and it was then Mr Johnson brandished a kitchen knife . |
| 24 | I was one of the ones that bought for it . |
| 25 | Was it her that baked for us as well ? |
| 26 | ‘ It was my heavy bones that did for me , as you well know ! ’ |
| 27 | It was the kiss that did for me , I think , not being called a goldmine . |
| 28 | So that was the sort of stuff that did for you for a couple of weeks before Christmas . |
| 29 | I could not forget my promise to the monster , and the awful work that waited for me . |
| 30 | Rudakov knew the pitfalls , knew of the knives that waited for him . |