Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Couple of chaps at the school got booted out for that stuff and I never did get round to it . ’ |
| 2 | Everton , still without their regular centre-backs Ratcliffe and Watson because of injury , again tried to make up for this by playing Snodin as a spare centre-back behind Keown and McDonald . |
| 3 | But the the people I met made up for that . |
| 4 | He 'd sat up for most of the night brooding about it , wondering what her reaction to him would be , finally deciding that he could n't wait until the evening to find out . |
| 5 | She 'd saved up for many months . |
| 6 | He was a good journalist and one I 'd known professionally for many years . |
| 7 | I 'd tried hard for many years to get him to stop , in the face of informed professional opinion , but he had always shrugged it off . |
| 8 | When his wife died he began to look around for another ; someone who would give him the children he needed . |
| 9 | McLaren then began shopping around for another label , pointedly ignoring Virgin . |
| 10 | You know them that we got to send off for that , I got head bag and you got that ? |
| 11 | The sergeant looked at her closely , obviously wondering if she planned to run off for some reason . |
| 12 | ‘ So , I started looking around for another job and heard that Mike Martinez , the agent , was looking for someone to do some secretarial work and some negotiating , and that he preferred English girls for such work . |
| 13 | Hugo glanced at his watch , and decided to press on for another half-hour . |
| 14 | Shrimp kept going up for some water , trod on Andrew . |
| 15 | No matter how dismally he fared , he kept coming back for more . |
| 16 | Mm , you sent sent off for all your |
| 17 | The contract with the child must hold firm and the parent can not deny that the child did behave well for that one item of behaviour . |
| 18 | But one matter the Society resisted pronouncing on for some time was the question of its own criteria for membership . |
| 19 | But they appeared to vanish altogether for several years to return mysteriously to look , to whistle and back chat . |
| 20 | Though Locke did go in for some experimental work , his main contribution to the ethos of the Society was to do what Bacon had quite failed to do . |
| 21 | yeah that 's lovely , we did put in for some in February , we have this one in the we have n't got a cover that one . |
| 22 | The peasants in the Roslavl' region did come in for some attention during 1922 , though supervision was at best paternalistic , sporadic , and myopic . |
| 23 | What , well , we had a very large sitting dining room where we put er our dining room furniture at one end and as , the sitting room furniture at the other , it was very large actually , a Nissan hut does n't look very big , but it is quite big and we had one large bedroom where we got all our furniture in there and then there was er a kitchen , and there was an Elsan lavatory in the garden which er you had to go outside for that , and er , we bought a full length galvanized bath like an ordinary bath upstairs and there was a boiler in the kitchen so we used to light the fire of the boiler , fill the boiler with water from the tap , we had a , oh we had all sorts of er innovations that made life easy as could be in the circumstances , we had er hose pipe from the kitchen sink into the bathroom , we managed to get about three baths a week , cos it , it was a terrible fag , but we did , and then you just emptied the bath out and out in the drain outside you know . |
| 24 | You had to go ashore for that . |
| 25 | " I had to go away for several days and while I was gone your mother saw some papers in Devraux 's desk . |
| 26 | Was there ever a time when you had to go in for more drastic measures ? |
| 27 | It was Germany which had pressed hardest for more powers to be granted to the European Parliament at the expense of the national parliaments as the price for monetary union on German terms . |
| 28 | We had pressed hard for these and the Inspector eventually agreed to a series at four different venues . |
| 29 | If Attlee had carried on for another year , and the economy had turned round , Labour might still be in power . |
| 30 | Edward continued to stand there for another minute or two . |