Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] for " in BNC.
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| 31 | And I never much cared for the bumptious , muscular side of The Smiths , so I welcome the spaciness Vini Reilly brings as new guitarist , whether it 's the lurid wig-out of ‘ Alsatian Cousin' or the dew-and-moonbeam iridescence of ‘ Late Night , Maudlin Street ’ . |
| 32 | Nilsson , firmly entrenched in her seventies , leaves her native Sweden only rarely nowadays and she never much cared for recording studios . |
| 33 | She said in a small voice , ‘ She told me that you only cared for the vines . |
| 34 | and with a broken heart they dive down gently headed for the earth |
| 35 | A series of bad falls , a year and a half on the sidelines , and a promising career suddenly headed for oblivion . |
| 36 | He only entered for the Foreign Office and the block plan , with a total of ten drawings , and was awarded one of the fifth prizes for his Foreign Office design . |
| 37 | Food reflux alone occurred for 17.8% of the recording time . |
| 38 | Food reflux alone occurred for 17.8+53.2/-13.8% of the recording time . |
| 39 | He confronted Julie Stott , 27 , and her companion , Peter Ellis , 27 , forced them to lie spreadeagled on the ground , and apparently shouted for them to hand over their money and watches . |
| 40 | The thunderous applause after Be My Downfall , a cover of Free 's A Little Bit Of Love and the much shouted for Move Away Jimmy Blue was well deserved . |
| 41 | If anything , its additional colours brought extra glitter to the music , and this quality was certainly seized upon by the London Sinfonietta under Elgar Howarth , who eagerly compensated for the pianist 's lack of a trenchant or subtle delivery . |
| 42 | As it turned out , he only came for the funeral . ’ |
| 43 | ‘ I only came for a glass of water . |
| 44 | But the pastor only came for one service every two weeks even then , in the war . ’ |
| 45 | Yeah , oh cos that 's when she said Frank , Frank only came for a short while or something ? |
| 46 | What , what people had , had Tuesday , Wednesday , Thursday and they perhaps came for their order on the , or their weekend joint on the Friday and I 'd make the whole ticket up and they 'd pay and then that ticket would be torn off and if they wanted that meat delivered on the Saturday , that would be delivered with that ticket on the top . |
| 47 | In my day we treated our old heroes right and they only played for 10 bob a week . |
| 48 | She looked at him expectantly , but rather to her surprise he merely nodded for her to continue . |
| 49 | Nothing apparently happened for two months after the Institute 's delegation . |
| 50 | PAMELA : " Do n't wonder to see the paper so blotted for my good lady died of the illness I mentioned to you , and left us all much grieved for the loss of her . |
| 51 | One tall girl with curly hair only hitched for two minutes before a smiling family picked her up . |
| 52 | ‘ But you obviously plumped for the army . ’ |
| 53 | In 1750 , thanks to his Yorkshire connections , he was appointed as British resident in Brussels , an appointment suddenly revoked for reasons unknown . |
| 54 | Mr Sowerberry , the undertaker in Charles Dickens 's Oliver Twist , was in the middle of the funeral hierarchy , but towards the bottom end as he only catered for parish funerals — that is to say those from the workhouse or those receiving outdoor relief . |
| 55 | He especially thanked for years of hard work , and this was received with strong acclamation . |
| 56 | We only broke for the night on the promise of a further meeting next day together with social security officials . |
| 57 | It only called for eight at the most . |
| 58 | One interpretation of the intermittent energy which Joseph Sturge put into the free produce movement in the 1840s is that it constituted an attempt by a Friend who had launched out into public and even political life to maintain links with more traditionally quietist brethren who none the less looked for greater perfection in the world . |
| 59 | You know he only went to he only went for a pee you know what I mean that cramming five pound and ten pound deals at him , and he 's going , No you can , you know . |
| 60 | But we only went for half a day at that period and then for a month or so then the troops went away again , we got back into our own school . |