Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [vb past] [pron] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I expect he did it for the insurance , ’ Dangerfield said . |
| 2 | Anyone know who marked him for the 3–3 draw at Leeds ? |
| 3 | And then she quite confounded me by doing exactly what I advised , and I always thought she took me for a crank whose horse sense , if any , was a forced calm not to be heeded . |
| 4 | She lifted her lip at me — I think she meant it for a smile . ’ |
| 5 | As we left I thanked her for the ‘ nice tea ’ and off we went . |
| 6 | I said I wanted it for an amateur production of James Saunders A Scent of Flowers — a play I knew well and which required a coffin to be positioned downstage during the entire action . |
| 7 | his school sports and said I did it for the sake of the children ! |
| 8 | They sued the well-known actress Constance Collier for the £16 9s 3d which they said she owed them for the flowers which her maid had ordered by telephone to be delivered to the Savoy Theatre . |
| 9 | And as your career prospects have changed so dramatically in just a year , I 'd say your girlfriend was probably justified in feeling you left her for no good reason . |