Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb past] [pron] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I liked it so much that I used it for the show and played the hell out of it , it sounded so good . |
| 2 | I had n't been out for a long time , so I did it for the relaxation , really ! ’ |
| 3 | Sometimes , although she chided herself for the thought , it seemed as if in trying to be unselfish and giving him what he wanted , she had allowed herself to be turned into a sacrifice . |
| 4 | Well , the you 've heard , I 've heard some people being nasty and , and they did n't say no , but it was always , not always it was occasionally done grudgingly , and , and erm in many cases of course it was done willingly , you know come in yes please do , and , and they did n't even want the penny that , that you offered them for the telephone call . |
| 5 | included in mine , so it meant that they paid me for the summer holidays cos I did n't officially really |
| 6 | Gombert 's linear sense — and sometimes Crecquillon 's and Lupi 's was so strong that he cared nothing for the asperities of harsh suspensions or accented passing-notes , as in this passage from his motet , ‘ Ave sanctissima Maria ’ : |
| 7 | ‘ I was playing in a particular game and did not think I had done anything spectacular at all when I was approached by Heffernan who told me that he wanted me for the Ireland team to play Australia in the Compromise Rules series , ’ recalls McGilligan . |
| 8 | Jack found a piece of driftwood , its gnarled form worn totally smooth by the action of the waves , and they decided it would look wonderful in his barn hung on the brickwork chimney-breast , so he carried it for the rest of the morning until they returned to their little camp at lunchtime . |
| 9 | My sister had a baby about three months ago , and I met it for the first time when I went home . ’ |
| 10 | Okay , tell me , " I said , and I stiffened myself for the worst . |
| 11 | It required absolutely no breaking in and I wore it for the first time on a nine hour Scottish hill day during the May heatwave in complete comfort . |
| 12 | I was so relieved it was all over and my baby was alright and I held him for the first time . |
| 13 | ‘ Alex felt that if I selected him for the Poland game , he should play and try to help us get the result before announcing his retirement , and that was Bryan 's intention . ’ |
| 14 | And she asked me for the fifty P . |
| 15 | Security said they 'd send someone over right away , and she busied herself for the next few minutes with the half-dozen patients in the waiting area . |
| 16 | They could n't avoid being seen together and she braced herself for the blast from Georg and from her parents . |
| 17 | Managing the boat , he was in total command , and she admired him for the ease with which he wove between the countless busy craft , the pleasure boats , gondolas and the small and large ferries , his eyes constantly alert . |
| 18 | and then if you needed it for the further education you could use it |
| 19 | The cold was within his heart now , and he knew it for the heartcold of the truly bereft . |
| 20 | Unfortunately , for example , he believed certain things which were wrong ( such as the tenets of Unitarianism ) , and he believed them for the wrong reasons ( such as the theistic proofs ) . |
| 21 | And he entered me for the scholarship , , and er , I won . |
| 22 | We all do things together and it lifted us for the game on Saturday . |
| 23 | ‘ I have a full staff here but I released them for the fiesta in Palma . |
| 24 | He said it 's my fault ; but I did it for the best . ’ |
| 25 | The photo was in there , too , but she left it for the time being . |
| 26 | He lived down Gypsy Lane with his two sisters , he was a single man you see and my father and mother lived here and my , they not only mended shoes but they made them and er course naturally , you know , well of course Needham was n't as big as it is now but they made them for the best people , if that , if that 's the right , not the right expression say , but er but you know what I mean er and er and he , you know , all his life you see he did that and then one day he had a shock because his er , what would you call him colleague , he , he died suddenly in the night . |
| 27 | But he dismissed them for the time being , having more important matters to be dealt with . |
| 28 | But it did nothing for the glass . |
| 29 | Kernaghan , seeking a transfer this summer from relegated Middlesbrough , said : ’ I 'm pleased and relieved because I blamed myself for the goal Albania scored against us in the last match . |
| 30 | Our canvas stretcher-beds were quickly drenched with blood , because we used them for the worst wounded — the others had to be laid on the tiled floor . |