Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pron] [verb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As her door began to open she grabbed for the telephone , then dropped the receiver as Luke appeared . |
| 2 | With this in mind , she had taken Charles with her when she went to see them perform for the first time . |
| 3 | When Mortimer had assigned everyone positions for the operation — Ace , Benny and Petion to remain with him — he checked his watch . |
| 4 | Harry signed for Palace after Manager Edmund Goodman had seen him play for the amateur side , Kingstonian , in a Surrey Charity Shield Final at The Nest early in the summer of 1921 , when Palace had just won promotion to Division 2 . |
| 5 | ‘ It is that hard , ’ he said ominously , and I thought of John Maggovertski 's sadness for a pretty girl who had whored herself to pay for the white powder . |
| 6 | From what her mother had told her the experience would be horrendous and she had cried herself to sleep for the past week thinking about it . |
| 7 | He had to give himself time for the thought to reach him . |
| 8 | These last few months of building a new identity had enabled him to relax for the first time in years . |
| 9 | If the Co was up on the Tuesday you had to have it paid for the Saturday , at least . |
| 10 | You see my brother Joe is wrong , he should have , he 's a workaholic , and they 're doing sixteen hours a day and they 're working , can you imagine , and I mean my youngest brother Brad who 's working with him said er Joe do n't stop , a week , no a fortnight la , a fortnight last Sunday they had to put a not air conditioning yeah it is air conditioning unit in Smith 's in Staines and they had to whatever happens they had to get it working for the next day , it 's got to be in and working and they worked all day , my brother , my eldest brother Derek weld it for nine hours non stop , to the point where Brad our , my younger brother and Joe had |
| 11 | Gambling on the dying man being able to comprehend , he had ordered him to go for the destruct button , while he himself had kept Grant occupied by an exchange of fire . |
| 12 | With that , bayonets glistening , they began to charge , converging from every angle of the hemisphere ; before they had advanced a dozen yards squadrons of lancers had overtaken them racing for the ramparts . |