Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [vb pp] [adv] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | how much was n't held until after I 'd gone up for the money for Matthew 's back . |
| 2 | The extreme poverty of the whole concern is pathetic , and I wished I 'd paid more for the things I bought so as to make life easier for these tanners who look just about ready to give up . |
| 3 | I remember my excitement when I had arrived there for the first time from St Aubyn 's . |
| 4 | ‘ However I wanted to race in Ireland and I was frustrated when the Lisburn club came back to me a few days after I had signed up for the French meeting and gave me the full details . |
| 5 | I 've radioed in for the Social Services , they 'll find them some alternative accommodation . |
| 6 | Anyway , I 've finished here for the present . ’ |
| 7 | I 've worked only for the common good , humbly trying to advance knowledge … ’ |
| 8 | I figured my body was telling me to rest , so I 've flopped around for the last two weeks eating steaks and drinking beef tea , and getting stronger every day . |
| 9 | I 've come in for the polish |
| 10 | I have done so for the last seven or eight weeks . ’ |
| 11 | The following description of the scientific method by a twentieth-century economist conforms closely to the naive inductivist account of science as I have described it , and indicates that it is not a position that I have invented solely for the purpose of criticizing it . |
| 12 | And that is how I have got along for the last sixty six years . |
| 13 | Mildred slid him carefully into her pocket and raced up the stairs to her room , where she transferred him to a small box with holes in the lid which she had prepared specially for the journey . |
| 14 | Nor , she was sure , Bert , whom she had seen yesterday for the first time as a potentially responsible comrade . |
| 15 | His mother always looked as if she had dressed up for the occasion , which indeed she had . |
| 16 | It was an ancient emotion for Blanche , calling her home from the wasteland of tension and anger she had tramped across for the past few months . |
| 17 | He had been a good friend to her and when she walked out on her parents she had made straight for the bar , looking for him . |
| 18 | The thick grey hair had been tinted a reddish brown , a process to which she had succumbed only for the last two years , having previously been free in expressing her opinion of those stupid women who aimed to camouflage their age by dyeing their hair . |
| 19 | The source says : ‘ She went on to say that she had done more for the Royal Family than any of its other members . |
| 20 | You would not have supposed it possible to aid the Communist cause by stripping , yet Gypsy Rose Lee was banned because years before she had spoken up for the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League . |
| 21 | She had arrived again for the week-end ; and much earlier , on Friday afternoon instead of evening , than Sara had expected . |
| 22 | Henrietta , tall for her age and spectacularly thin , stood by them in the bikini she had put on for the sunshine and the wand , hovering round the crowd , finally pointed at her . |
| 23 | ‘ He 's not some groovy-looking person we 've picked out for the sake of it . |
| 24 | We 've put in for the club entry and we 're just waiting to hear , you know , if we 've been lucky or not . |
| 25 | ‘ I have n't actually met Frank yet ; he was appointed after we had broken up for the summer , ’ said Black . |
| 26 | ‘ My husband has been in the R.A.F. for nearly four years , but we had saved enough for the costs of a normal confinement in a nursing home , and as it was my first baby , we thought it well worth a little extra expense . |
| 27 | We had gotten to that section of the tune where it was obvious that we had played enough for the outro and I decided , off the top of my head , to start playing a song that I had started writing earlier in the week . |
| 28 | With so much happening , and no central authority , Lorne and I were constantly harried by the attempt to film only the crucial events , which appeared to erupt spontaneously at any time of the day or night , while conserving the precious little film stock we had put aside for the intended Bugis film . |
| 29 | We had booked up for the ordinary ship and , and rail you know , to go over by ship and rail but er during the months awaiting the , I think we were going in July and er we had booked up maybe about April , but they had put these planes on and Polytechnic wrote to us and said , if we paid two pounds ten extra , we could go by air and we did it and the full tour for a week in Paris , going by air , was twelve pounds ten . |
| 30 | We have stood up for the values our country has always represented . |