Example sentences of "[pron] have [adv] [verb] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | What would everyone back at the cafe have thought when , for the first time in eight months , I had n't shown up for work ? |
| 2 | During this ceaseless pursuit of the right métier for my particular brand of foolishness , I had already pitched up for a Telethon trailer to flamenco dance for the cause . |
| 3 | After an evening of pleasure and profit with my friends in Bank Street , I had clearly gone out for a drink or two . |
| 4 | It felt fragile at first , but it was as if I had finally come up for air after nearly drowning in a pool of lies . |
| 5 | I was unable to pay more than the $100,000 I had just forked out for his British rights , so he sold Leslie Waddington a batch too . |
| 6 | It would n't be much good telling them I had just popped out for a breath of air this street led to both the bus and railway stations and it would n't need a genius to rumble my little game . |
| 7 | But I had neither stumped up for a bale of fluffy bathroom towels , nor chipped in to the Qantas ticket . |
| 8 | After all , I had only come back for a day or two to buy some good German clothes . |
| 9 | Well you see and I 've also put in for a job for the the marina at Northampton which is another mental home . |
| 10 | We do within P Way Design , which is probably the best office I 've ever worked in for that . |
| 11 | I 've actually put in for twenty thousand pounds ' worth of grants at this point , however , let's see whether I 'm fortunate to achieve that . |
| 12 | I 've only popped in for a few minutes . |
| 13 | I 've only popped by for five minutes . |
| 14 | " I 've only popped down for a cup of tea . " |
| 15 | I have n't stayed in for about two months , about eight weeks , not one night , and he goes , ‘ I think you should stay in at least one ’ , and I goes , ‘ If you think I 'm staying in then you get lost , because I 'm not staying in this flaming house ’ , and he goes , ‘ You 're staying when I tell you to ’ , and I goes , ‘ I wo n't ’ , and I walked out and came back ten minutes later and said , ‘ I 'm going out , all right ? ’ and he goes , ‘ Okay ’ , and he give me some money to go out and come up here [ to the youth club ] . |
| 16 | As well as contributing to Oslobodjenje Camo is editor-in-chief of Nedjelja , a weekly magazine published by the same company , but which has n't come out for the last three months . |
| 17 | The theatre of La Scala was completed by 1778 by Giuseppe Piermarini following the decision by City Governor Ferdinand Hapsburg not to rebuild the theatre in the Palazzo Reale which had just burned down for the third time . |
| 18 | Getting this ingredient off the drawing boards and into bricks and mortar — not to mention details such as Donald Duck doorknobs — was indeed the stuff of dreams for Stern , who has always stood up for emotional content : ‘ In my view , whether you are engaged in a theme park , a hospital , or a court house , the building should elicit some excitement . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Diana is an Uptown girl who has never gone in for downtown men , ’ observes Rory Scott . |
| 20 | I think she should have played a Tour Event before an exhibition event , but then again it would n't be the first time she has n't turned up for a Tour Event would it ? |
| 21 | I 've trained her , but she has n't gone in for the exams . |
| 22 | The Princess of Wales may not have been quick to learn at school — possibly because her lessons did not interest her much — but she has certainly made up for lost time since her marriage . |
| 23 | And while she 's on the job , she 'd better look round for a well-born filly for Timothy to marry . |
| 24 | And as often as you tell yourself she 's not your type , that you do n't like blondes , your taste tends towards the browns , even redheads but not blondes , no ; and what 's more , her face is round , but you do n't like round faces ; and you 've always gone in for a bit of shape and she 's flat as a pancake . |
| 25 | ‘ If you were , you 've certainly made up for it since . |
| 26 | Mrs Allen 's body was found at her Harberton Park home on Tuesday morning after a senior officer at the Maze informed Banbridge police that she had not turned up for work . |
| 27 | She said she could n't stay , that she had just dropped in for a minute . |
| 28 | Aware that there was no accepted path for women in deacons ' orders in the Church of England , she had nevertheless looked around for a curacy which would put her in possession of solid parish experience . |
| 29 | In one blinding flash then , she had realised how much she had actually given up for Paul in a futile attempt to avert his jealous outbursts — friends , family , social life , even smiling … |
| 30 | But it was a tersely worded compliment , and as he turned to take an olive from the tray of hors-d'oeuvres already laid out on a side-table , her stabbing disappointment told Belinda that he was the person she had really dressed up for today , though what she wanted to prove to him she did n't quite know . |