Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er , I got paid , I got paid for the disabled games last year |
| 2 | Above all I would like to thank the sector for your friendship and warm support , and I have every confidence that Sir Jeffrey , my successor , I assume that resolution two will go through unan , unanimously , will be car , will be able to carry forward with your warm support , the vision I tried to outline for the next year . |
| 3 | I 'd flown for the first time , out to Malta in an old , rattling York aircraft , and then on to the Canal one . |
| 4 | A wife I 'd met for the first time filled up |
| 5 | He would then enquire how much I 'd paid for the latest irreparable objects , and if it had been 20p or less he 'd say , with satisfaction , ‘ Well , at least it had a decent plug ’ , and the decent plug would go into the decent plug box . |
| 6 | And as the embarrassing minutes ticked away I began to realize for the first time the enormity of the problem which confronted Mrs Rumney . |
| 7 | The day after I finished working for the managing director of a certain company fighting off a take-over bid , the agency sent me to the rival company . ’ |
| 8 | And as I started to go for the third man , I heard the sound of police whistles , and then two policemen arrived with the woman , and the third thug ran for it . |
| 9 | So I mean in the shop I , I did sell for the National Trust once but I s I sold them the . |
| 10 | I said go for the obvious one Brazil question seventeen , the Pyrenees mountain range lies between which two countries ? |
| 11 | I had trained for the first time only four days before ! |
| 12 | The fields and clouds were the same as those I had seen for the last half hour . |
| 13 | I had fallen for the oldest James Brown/James Brown joke in the book . |
| 14 | ‘ I had to wait for the right moment to tell Nicola . |
| 15 | I had felt for the first time a gnawing loneliness , finding echoes of familiar landscapes in the sweep of a glen , the gentle bend of a river . |
| 16 | WHEN CHRIS OWEN , Head of Natural History Publications at the Natural History Museum , published a painting of mosses that I had done for the National Museum of Wales , I had no idea that it would lead to a further and more exciting job offer , so a call out of the blue from Chris was a welcome surprise . |
| 17 | All I wanted to do for the first few weeks was to let Skipper get to know me and his surroundings . |
| 18 | I found it so enjoyable that I wanted to register for the complete game . |
| 19 | Why was it everyone seemed to go for the easy way out ? |
| 20 | First , Parliament gave statutory recognition and reinforcement to the existing regime of contractual receivers appointed by debenture holders which had operated for the public benefit . |
| 21 | In the administrative sphere it decided to operate through the traditional élites which had worked for the Jordanian government . |
| 22 | Sixty fishermen turned out for the competition on Rutland Water , which had opened for the new season only four days earlier , after an initial stocking with 40,000 trout . |
| 23 | A week later the Senate created the Landesarbeitsamt — a kind of labour exchange , but one which refused to cater for the Polish unemployed of Danzig . |
| 24 | They took the lead courtesy of Trevor Smith 's sixth goal of the season but were pegged back by an equaliser from Johnny Jameson who failed to appear for the second half . |
| 25 | On Sunday , the Vesta Veterans ' Head , over the same course , includes St Andrew , who failed to enter for the big one on time . |
| 26 | Consequently she 'd prepared for the worst while hoping for the best . |
| 27 | She 'd headed for the historical centre and spanned out , taking in the churches and palaces and the Lonja — the commodity exchange which housed , among other historical interests , the fine arts museum . |
| 28 | Just for a few seconds she 'd fallen for the powerful aphrodisiac of music , her senses sharpened by aquavit and the potent charisma of a man who would stop at nothing to achieve his desired ends ! |
| 29 | It was an astonishing thing for a wife to say about her husband to a woman she 'd met for the first time . |
| 30 | Barbara was bored with the bob she 'd had for the past four years and was ready for a complete change . |