Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] for [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This subcontractor has worked for for a number of years . |
| 2 | A compromise on this issue , they wrote , would damage all that the French Republic has stood for since the Revolution . |
| 3 | The Thatcher administration , on the other hand , ‘ do not believe that the community as a whole should continue to pay for all sorts of things that it has paid for in the past … |
| 4 | In fact , I gave her more thinking time than I 'd bargained for as the crush at the bar was worse than when we 'd arrived . |
| 5 | Kim was learning more than she 'd bargained for from the entries : ‘ I had n't realised that the all-in-one body had been such an immensely influential piece . |
| 6 | Just as the record was going to be released , Dave came round and told us he 'd got another manager for us and it turned out to be Ralph Horton who we 'd auditioned for at The Roebuck Pub in Tottenham Court Road . |
| 7 | The share of world refining accounted for by the majors fell from 51 per cent in 1973 to 38 per cent in 1980 . |
| 8 | It was everything that Burton could have hoped for in the West End at that time . |
| 9 | L l l let's try to explain for for an audience that 's looking at television pictures here and what we 're talking about . |
| 10 | er We 've got some very disturbed children in Oxfordshire who need all sorts of help , which do n't necessarily get provided for at the moment . |
| 11 | As early as the 1550s the Venetian government had begun sending young men to Constantinople to learn the language : this seems to have continued for about a century but then faded away . |
| 12 | Other strategies to ‘ save ’ money included joining clubs to purchase essentials which they could not afford to pay for in a lump sum , although being aware of the extra costs of the high interest on such purchases ; having slot meters installed to control electricity consumption ; and delaying lighting the fire until later in the day to conserve coal : |
| 13 | This arrangement appears to have lasted for around a century . |
| 14 | ‘ It will greatly assist what we are trying to aim for in the development of the game in all quarters of the county . ’ |
| 15 | Gould also made a considerable name for himself at home , finally attaining the scientific status he had yearned for as an ornithologist , on or off the field . |
| 16 | In February 1855 Moscow 's gentry assembly chose the retired liberal general , A. P. Ermolov ( one-time ruler of the Caucasus ) , to raise the supplementary armed forces which Nicholas had called for at the end of the previous month . |
| 17 | The Soviets obtained what they had hoped for since the war : an agreement that European borders should be changed only by peaceful means , which in effect recognised the post-war settlement in Eastern Europe . |
| 18 | Bollards as we 've asked for across the frontage as well , and the back . |
| 19 | A large sculpture , primitive in nature and in texture , African she thought , although she had not cared to ask him , fearing he might expand rather more than she had bargained for on the origins of what she suspected to be a goddess of fertility . |
| 20 | The terror of leaving the tot you have cared for round the clock in the hands of a virtual stranger can be more daunting than the birth itself . |
| 21 | Oh Charlotte 's trying to lean against him and push him out , no he 's settled for under the table now , now leave him Charlotte he can lay under the table , he 's out the way over there |
| 22 | That also means we will be subsidizing bad employers through our taxes and the fiddling factory owners will undermine the decent conditions we have fought for over the years . |
| 23 | Quite strange but as soon as he 's paid for for the goods and got the goods the chap 's going to go off looking for another . |