Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [adv prt] for [det] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 He 'd sat up for most of the night brooding about it , wondering what her reaction to him would be , finally deciding that he could n't wait until the evening to find out .
2 and these would have made up for some of the others perhaps won for them by Lloyd George .
3 We bought some after we had laid out for most of ours
4 This service is provided through IRPC by a legal expenses insurance policy which we have taken out for each of our customers ' benefit .
5 Why is it that we can look at organizations which we ourselves have worked in for most of our lives , where we have complained bitterly , where over drinks with our colleagues or at the Christmas pantomime or some other time we have given vent to our irritation at these bad organizational and behavioural characteristics ; and yet when we reach high positions in companies we consider them to be something which is beyond our capability to influence ?
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