Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] for [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was the old Linfield spirit that carried them through because it was n't a great Linfield team , compared to the sides Trevor and I played for in the 80s . |
| 2 | The one that counted against me most was the Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee , which I worked for in the late Thirties . |
| 3 | ‘ As long as you do n't ask me who I voted for in the General Election . ’ |
| 4 | The one I voted for in the original poll ( I think , it seems ages ago now ) was Bremner . |
| 5 | And it seems that the money , in so far as it emerges in budgets that clearly , is determined by crude political muscle and nothing to do with reason and analysis — all the things that you stood for in the sixties and seventies . |
| 6 | Family budgets are seen to be a private settlement of accounts between men and women , men 's unequal distribution of working-class incomes within their households is a right they fought for within the working-class movement and it is not yet susceptible to public political pressure within the movement . |
| 7 | This is to prevent the offeror from acquiring more shares than he bid for under the partial offer , and shareholders in the target from receiving more favourable treatment from the offeror by selling in the market during the 12 months following the partial bid . |