Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] for [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The more she tried to be that person the more I lost my sense of who I 'd fallen for in the first place . |
| 2 | Erm but erm come the time had come for for the fair let's say the the the Spring fair . |
| 3 | But he felt as well something far greater — the sudden joy of life that he had pleaded for as the old eagle 's right , and in pleading for it then had begun at last to claim it as his own . |
| 4 | The virtual destruction of the Liberal Party almost completed the political pattern which he had hoped for since the previous autumn . |
| 5 | This is less than best but it 's better than nothing , that 's the point and it is very nearly what we have argued for from the very beginning . |