Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pron] [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I thought you booked for eight-thirty , John . ’ |
| 2 | So nobody could I kept that shop , I paid the rent on the shop for twelve months , I kept it closed for twelve months , to get that place going . |
| 3 | I fought for them two , to get that home for her , so I said no , the only way you 'll do it , and I , when she were on her own , I said , not that I do n't trust Nigel , I do , but you do n't know what 's gon na happen in ten , in ten years time , I said I fought for that house for you , if you exchange it , you exchange it in your name |
| 4 | I had I saved for three years . |
| 5 | The vector also contained the selectable marker neo r , which enabled us to select for G418-resistant , bcl-2 -expressing subclones . |
| 6 | Chance is chiefly remembered for the Chance process , for the recovery of sulphur in the Leblanc process , which enabled it to weather for another thirty years the challenge from the ammonia-soda process used by the Solvay Company in Belgium and its British partner , Brunner , Mond & Co . |
| 7 | He was requested by Prime Minister James Callaghan to head a commission that looked into the future of the engineering profession in Britain , which kept him occupied for two and a half years . |
| 8 | She let it rest for longer than she should have done and then moved slightly away . |
| 9 | She heard him reach for another sandwich . |
| 10 | However thirty-six hours before she died she telephoned for some of us to visit ; she knew we had all been worried and concerned but she had it all under control . |
| 11 | I dared not say a word in case you sent me packing for good . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I 'll tell Mr Wilcox she 's here , ’ said Brian Everthorpe , and Robyn thought she saw him wink for some inscrutable reason . |
| 13 | Who did you rob for this ? ’ |
| 14 | You published last week an account of our ordeal at the hands of burglars who left us barricaded for 37 hours in a tiny bathroom . |
| 15 | And one of the sisters she said she started for this company did n't she . |
| 16 | You said you worked for twenty years about , |
| 17 | Our miracle — for that was how it felt , how she hoped it felt for all women . |
| 18 | The picaresque vitality of Richardson 's novel begins to wane early in the third volume ( a frequent fate of follow-ups ) and , as a theatre audience does not have the opportunity to plough through stodgy bits in their own time , we felt it made for better drama to kill Pamela ( in the novel she comes near to death ) before the dramatic conflict itself dies . |
| 19 | Er he 's gone to Barnsley , cos they asked me to ask for this , gone to Barnsley . |
| 20 | He says they told us to wait for two hours which we did then they told us to wait another hour and a half . |
| 21 | They thought I meant for five seconds but I made them practise holding their tone for twenty or thirty seconds . |
| 22 | He made me wait for two years . |
| 23 | He took us to the Þingvellir National park where the clouds parted and the sun shone on square kilometres of snow that was so clean and pure it made me weep for all the time we had lost on the trip , and for the pleasure of being where I wanted to be . |
| 24 | A few years before he died he posed for this effigy , placing the completed picture in his room , adjacent to his bed , as a memento mori . |
| 25 | What made you apply for this particular job ? |
| 26 | We wrote traditional and then we wrote modern and then what did we do , what did we decide for those two categories ? |
| 27 | So it 's sometime useful to think of it that way round , Newton 's third law , rather than force is mass times acceleration , you 're interested in the effect , now what did we get for this , what sort of acceleration do we get . |
| 28 | What did you do for that ? |
| 29 | So what did you do for this one ? |
| 30 | And then what did you do for this next bit ? |