Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I agree with Roulet that everyone has to fight for equal conditions , and then we are happy to share . |
| 2 | only insure our own league and so it , I mean insured for major contingencies and that |
| 3 | ‘ Leo , she said warningly , ‘ I have had as much as I intend taking for one day . |
| 4 | ‘ It means , simply , that I intend to look for another job . ’ |
| 5 | I failed to realise for some considerable time the importance of commitment from the top down . |
| 6 | I got done for that . |
| 7 | I was dead thin and not eating anything and then I got sacked for gross misconduct , y'know , for never going in and that . |
| 8 | So anyway , before I heard that I 'd got an appointment at the Clinic , I got caught for one burglary and so I told them about the rest , 'cos I wanted to get off it an ’ I knew that was the only way of getting off it and I thought , now I 've been caught , I might as well get meself stuck down for a bit , like , rather than get a big fine which I wouldn'a been able to handle at that time … . |
| 9 | Then I got arrested for some petty thing , shoplifting . |
| 10 | I expected to pay for twin-lens versatility with loss of picture quality , but this was n't the case at all . |
| 11 | ‘ It was during the post-punk kind of period and I went through a series of bands , but I must admit I found working for other people really difficult . |
| 12 | When I say existed for ten years , er I I did make a slight mistake in that for ten years erm the village . |
| 13 | And I want to apologize for last night , I made an awful ass of myself , I am sorry . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I 'd hoped for personal service , ’ said Giles . |
| 15 | The only time I 've ever frozen in an exam was when I 'd gone for three exams solid without kip , one after the other , and I just brain and the other ones were a real struggle and I had to graft my marks out of solid granite y'know I was chiselling away . |
| 16 | She looked me up and down and adjusted my tie an inch or so ( I 'd gone for green silk and I now had two ties ) , then said : |
| 17 | But erm after I 'd choked for half an hour she went to sleep I eventually went back to sleep again and |
| 18 | I might have felt a little downcast at that point , only the evening had made me feel more encouraged about my prospects with her than I 'd felt for some time . |
| 19 | If I 'd paused for more thought I perhaps would n't have had the nerve , but I simply opened his door , checked up and down the corridor for observers ( none ) and went inside , shutting myself in . |
| 20 | Adopted just five weeks ago ‘ I 'd tried for other seats but had n't got anywhere ’ he has been staying in Northallerton with Jim Stafford , the cheery and down to earth constituency agent . |
| 21 | I wear them most of the time , otherwise I 'd arrested for indecent exposure |
| 22 | By working co-operatively , long-term , with the people around me , I hope to continue for some time yet . |
| 23 | By working co-operatively , longterm , with the people around me , I hope to continue for some time yet . |
| 24 | She said , ‘ What am I going to wear for this old party tomorrow ? |
| 25 | They are at any rate central and have I believe served for various committees of inquiry , etcetera , before . |
| 26 | I had done well in my O-levels , but I had already won the Under-16 British squash championships , and I decided to go for broke and turn professional and see how I got on . |
| 27 | I decided to go for broke , and get up a performance of my own . ’ |
| 28 | At this point I decided to go for broke so I wound in the other corn rod and changed this over to a boilie . |
| 29 | Realizing I could n't hang around on the dole forever waiting for the Tate Gallery to offer me an exhibition , and also that my boyfriend , also on the dole , was not likely to be able to support me , I decided to go for further training . |
| 30 | I decided to apply for some help , so my daughter Lilya ( Aliki ) and I wrote a letter to Andropov and Brezhnev , and I explained in these letters that what had been stolen was a large number of works from the collection that I had intended to give to the Tretyakov Gallery . |