Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I used a variant of it in a pastiche of the 1930s story I wrote for the fiftieth anniversary of Collins Crime Club in 1980 . |
| 2 | I had to tag him on to group deals as a makeweight — you know , like the contract I did for twelve of my players with UK Airlines . |
| 3 | After replacing the 'phone I waited for the tingling to stop then looked at my watch . |
| 4 | Erm I mean kids can do , of a similar age , can do enormously abusive things to each-other in which case it 's often thought of as things like bulling or erm or or something like that y'know I mean for example I know somebody who attende was educated at Rugby and you know he was he was buggered silly by the other boys who also wired him up to the mains and stuck billiard cues up his bum and all sort of things . |
| 5 | With all my heart I hope for the failure of that first book — no , volume , of mine , from beginning to end not trash , but heartless pretence . |
| 6 | After the winner I rode for him at York . ’ |
| 7 | concrete stairs and , George nearly killed himself on them one morning , but er , and we tried everything to get out of there you know , no one would exchange a two bedroom maisonette for a house and of course I longed for a garden , but , and er George got a job in Hatfield and they offered this three bedroom house The Commission for The New Town , rent was cheaper than here , so we moved over there , but er , as I say we were only there two , three years and we came back again , we were over here , we used to come over here three times a week , when we lived there did n't we ? |
| 8 | Some nerve , and of course I went for it . |
| 9 | On the other hand , of course I ask for as much as I can get . ‘ |
| 10 | A psychological astronomer , I calculated its apogee at approximately 2 to 3 o'clock , unless of course I stopped for a drink . |
| 11 | Of course I feel for him . |
| 12 | At the previous election I stood for election to a United Kingdom Parliament , as did the hon. Gentleman . |
| 13 | That afternoon I left for Abu Dhabi with the promise that I would indeed see them in Al Ain in a week 's time . |
| 14 | But erm it 's just having that one room with a kitchen I think for if someone calls probably you see . |
| 15 | ‘ Listen , Maurice , as I say I am now playing the lead in this show , and I think it is about time you sorted out some deal on the money I get for doing it . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ The money I get for the scrap is paid into the Finance Department , and when the fund has built up to a worthwhile sum I 'll be calling for suggestions for a local charity to whom we can donate the cash . ’ |
| 17 | I put aside some of the money I got for the silver , because Daddy meant to divide his things between us both . ’ |
| 18 | I just love sitting and reading and doing NOTHING … a huge man came here the other day and practically THREATENED me if I would n't write my life story … offered me any money I asked for … but thank God I am well off now . |
| 19 | In the first part I argue for the inclusion of gender awareness as a valid dimension of educational analysis of the arts and , as a vehicle for this argument , posit a set of four general criteria which might legitimately be used by arts educators as part of a re-evaluation of the arts curriculum in this regard . |
| 20 | I did not usurp power but I did greatly broaden the use of executive power , in other words this is the modesty part I acted for the public welfare , I acted for the common wellbeing of all our people whenever and in whatever manner was necessary unless prevented by direct constitutional or legislative prohibition Roosevelt suggested that the president subject only to the people of the United States and he identified himself with Andrew Jackson and with Abraham Lincoln . |
| 21 | Unless one supposes there to be two categorially different kinds of appearances presented to the mind it will then seem that this flat circle must be the only object of visual perception , and the round globe I seem to see , the epistemic appearance , must really be a judgement I mistake for a sensation . |
| 22 | Randalstown are the side everyone tipped for league glory . |
| 23 | The deal I concluded for Jean-Claude amounted to twice the sum that had been pencilled in . |
| 24 | Whatever reply I find for that one , obviously it is not going to be |
| 25 | He commented that ‘ the rugby club I play for is just like the Conservatives ’ . |
| 26 | The massed volumes that take up the wall next to the window are evidence of the research I did for my first and second books : one a dual biography of two late Victorian figures , the politician George Wyndham and the poet and political campaigner Wilfred Scawen Blunt ; the other a life of the Edwardian Prime Minister Arthur Balfour . |
| 27 | I have no interest to declare in the construction industry , but during my first 10 years in that industry I worked for John Laing , then I worked for Wimpey for about eight years , and I was the head of the largest direct labour organisation in the country — the Greater London council — for nearly three years . |
| 28 | I had never been a member of the Labour Party , and on the first occasion when I could claim a vote I voted for the Liberal candidate in the Hampstead constituency . |
| 29 | I know , all too well , how it can outweigh everything else — the disgust I feel for you and the way I consequently despise myself , for instance . ’ |
| 30 | The first piece I wrote for the New Statesman , almost exactly four years ago , began : ‘ People keep asking me , ‘ On what platform will you be standing for deputy leader of the Labour Party ? ' |