Example sentences of "really [vb past] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I never really asked for her . |
| 2 | She would do it if she really cared for him , he believed . |
| 3 | So she came back to London and married the man I called my father , but she never really cared for him and she still saw this other man sometimes when he came to London on business . |
| 4 | I have met wonderful doctors who really cared for their old patients , but sometimes the doctors were dismissive and rude , believing that there was little point in wasting valuable resources on the elderly as they were going to die soon anyway . |
| 5 | She had spent most of her own childhood trying to persuade her parents to fall in love with each other and known how little they really cared for each other or for her , but until recently she had not realised how little real love there had been in her own marriage . |
| 6 | I remember when the wild-west look was in fashion , though I must confess I never really cared for it myself . ’ |
| 7 | Not only am I not prepared to have a semi-detached marriage , but I 'm convinced that if you really cared for me you would have no hesitation about placing my interests first , ’ had been his parting shot as he had left the apartment , slamming the front door loudly behind him . |
| 8 | He was the paternal figure , the leader who really cared for his men , who suffered what they suffered . |
| 9 | ‘ I really came for a word with Miss Passmore , but if she does n't mind you hearing what I have to say … ’ |
| 10 | The slow version has the most depth , and maybe it 'll turn up on a 12-inch some day , but I really opted for the fast one , because it seemed a really nice way to start the album . ’ |
| 11 | The slow version has the most depth , and maybe it 'll turn up on a 12-inch some day , but I really opted for the fast one , because it seemed a really nice way to start the album . ’ |
| 12 | And I was struck by an enthusiastic review of the programme by a male press critic which really emphasised for me how both political and media discourses are implicated in addressing audiences/voters in patriarchal terms that are outside most of our experience . |
| 13 | I really felt for her actually in the snow . |
| 14 | ‘ In Jamaica once I really feared for my life . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I really feared for his legs at one point . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I really went for him and felt rather sorry for it afterwards . |
| 17 | Hereford put up a great fight … they really went for it last night and deserved more than they got … in centre forward Chris Pike they have a new goal hero … |
| 18 | Hereford put up a great fight … they really went for it last night and deserved more than they got … in centre forward Chris Pike they have a new goal hero … |
| 19 | None of us really knew for certain what had gone wrong , although , well , you could n't help putting two and two together . |
| 20 | Those two exclamation marks really did for me . |
| 21 | But what really did for him was losing a lot of money at Keyser Ullmann in the property crash of 1973 . |
| 22 | ‘ Although I had seen a few people through Plump Partners — some of whom are still great friends — romance never really blossomed for me . |
| 23 | Perhaps they were too well-known to need spelling out ; but it is just as likely that the personal qualities which contemporaries did stress were what really accounted for both men 's influence at the courts of successive Carolingians . |
| 24 | This is remarkable , given how little evidence he really had for his theory and how much of the evidence he had was wrong ! |
| 25 | There was the barbed American joke that the acronym , SEAC ( the South-East Asian Command ) really stood for " Save England 's Asiatic Colonies . " |