Example sentences of "that [pron] [vb past] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Imagine my amazement when , on my first day in the new set-up , I found that everyone fought for attention by dramatizing every event . |
| 2 | This he did , and it was then that I experienced for the first time his unexpected propensity for one-liners , conjured out of thin air . |
| 3 | It was at a dinner party in the flat , when they were in the kitchen together fetching yogurt and raspberries , that I heard for the first time one of them turn on the other in anger . |
| 4 | ‘ I am a rich woman ; he left everything to me , and so he should have done , after all that I sacrificed for him . |
| 5 | you ought to say you but she you know , that I 'd for someone |
| 6 | And I believe it was then , looking on that view , that I began for the first time to adopt a frame of mind appropriate for the journey before me . |
| 7 | Her hair was fair , so that I thought for a moment of the other woman I had met recently , Elizabeth Lavenza . |
| 8 | Medical confidentiality you 're you 're just sitting there with bloody a private conversation we that I went for treatment with my doctor , and and the recommendations that she 's given me in , well well what 's the point er what er what 's going on ? |
| 9 | Jo Spence I think it was then I was ill that I understood for the first time what it was to be a victim . |
| 10 | We had a succession of God-awful nannies we could n't afford — Clemence 's books had n't started to sell at that point — but the upshot was that I left for work late , came home early . |
| 11 | He then said that he now had confirmation from the police and that I qualified for a transfer and would receive an offer for Govan ( where my dad is ) within a week . |
| 12 | But I did it through the love , fo , that I had for the couple , and that because they had waited sixteen year before they eventually found out they could n't have children ! |
| 13 | My doctor had also prepared a report for the judge , about various medical problems which I hoped might be taken into consideration , along with the fact that I had for some time been re-building my life and now had very little to do with the lifestyle that brought me into contact with drugs . |
| 14 | He adds : ‘ I also felt that I wanted to give the love that I felt for her in the way she needs love to be given . ’ |
| 15 | And then took er took the k took the tr the erm took the the saddle off and the lathe and and fitted it on top and then got special tools from Clarence Dock at Liverpool power station that I asked for , tools . |
| 16 | To tell the truth I have only hazy memories of the magazine that I took for a long time and until it ceased publication for reasons that were beyond me . |
| 17 | Of these , the set that I selected for careful examination within the main projects is the ( pull ) set , which deals with alternation between [ u ] and [ Δ ] in a set of lexical items such as pull , put , foot , shook . |
| 18 | The two young girls , I predicted , would not find such changes so difficult to accommodate , but I did all I could to see that Mrs Clements suffered the least adjustments , to the extent that I undertook for myself a number of duties which you may consider most broad-minded of a butler to do . |
| 19 | ‘ That I did for Mr Lambert , ’ but the rebuff was cancelled as he brushed her fingers using the back of his hand . |
| 20 | I must admit the Hockin style was inclined to be more racy than that I used for the Gazette . |
| 21 | I had my daughter treated under an assumed name until she was five , to try and prevent the press from finding out things about her , and they have the secret name that I used for here in here . |
| 22 | the farm yard set for Katie but then , cos I have n't got her so much , so I thought we , she , I do n't think she 'd be into police , I thought if I bought police and that was dearer and the amount that I bought for Ben and Charlotte |
| 23 | Is that beer alright that I bought for you ? |
| 24 | No I do n't , I think I can , you witness that I paid for this wo n't you ? |
| 25 | I bought all that I needed for a laboratory , and sent everything to Scotland . |
| 26 | The sureness with which I carry out all motions on this return journey , the knowledge that is part of the recognition , overwhelmingly convinces me , in the dream and on waking , that I have often , often been there , although , as you know , I never lived in the country as a child , and all the lore that I needed for my little articles on Nature was garnered later from various sources . |
| 27 | droopy draws the one that I wanted for ages droopy draws . |
| 28 | Erm , funnily enough earlier on in August , erm , I rang you up about Yugoslavia , and er , I , one of the reasons that I gave for not , the Europeans , not intervening in Yugoslavia was my fear that it might lead to the Russian military unseating Gorbachev and my , er , discard that the , the sick man of Russia , so erm , sort of parallel I , well I would n't parallel it with Yugoslavia , my argument in Yugoslavia was that we should n't intervene because we do not have primary interests with , I mean , well we clearly have general interest but we do n't have primary interest , additionally in Russia is that everybody , in the world have interest but I would definitely here say that Britain should clearly do nothing per . |
| 29 | Dad Tam : " You promise me you will never tell anybody " til " am deed that I stood for the man who made that statue . " |
| 30 | When the author of the Life of Edward the Confessor says that he trusted the cause of God to his bishops , and ordered secular judges to act fairly , so that honesty could have royal support and evil its just condemnation , this may be an indication that someone did for Edward what Wulfstan had done for Æthelred and Cnut . |