Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pron] for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , Dacre came to find me for the purpose of asking my permission to address you , ’ said Kirtlington . |
| 2 | She had not merely been a housekeeper but her qualities of efficiency , cheerfulness and gastronomic expertise seemed to fit her for the task of looking after this unusual pair . |
| 3 | Juliet wondered if he 'd re-stocked it for the occasion . |
| 4 | Perhaps if I 'd entered him for the Champion Hurdle , he might have sold . |
| 5 | Harry Lamb worked on his father 's farm , managed on five hours ' sleep a night and studied to prepare himself for the Church of Ireland ministry . |
| 6 | He decided to wear it for the rest of his life . |
| 7 | ( He had in fact put on weight while resting after Alfredo Alfredo , and needed to lose it for the role anyway . |
| 8 | The ‘ younger people ’ as they were known started to ready themselves for the expedition which started the next day . |
| 9 | We decided to hire him for the day , and negotiated a price . |
| 10 | They undertook to do it for the whole of the Caldmore area did they ? |
| 11 | The policewoman decided to believe her for the moment . |
| 12 | They met at Cambridge when she — ‘ a lovely young woman with dark brown hair and blue eyes ’ — went to interview him for the university newspaper . |
| 13 | Reluctantly tearing herself away from Marc as they went to ready themselves for the ceremony later on , she changed rapidly into the coat-dress bought for the wedding , then did her face and piled up her hair . |
| 14 | No doubt about it , he meant to corner her for the evening . |
| 15 | If in past decades we waited for the telegram to arrive , it did not lessen the shock , but it did prepare us for the event . |
| 16 | Erm , I mean , he wrote a lot , I saw him church on Sunday and I did thank him for the letter |
| 17 | ‘ I got to charge you for the call-out , ’ said the cop . |
| 18 | It was also believed that Menelik visited his father Solomon , and on his departure contrived to substitute a copy of the Ark of the Covenant that his father had given him for the original , which he then carried off to Aksum . |
| 19 | At the end of the formal presentation not all had joined us for the stomach churners , preferring to get to the office and start selling those new protection contracts . |
| 20 | On the grounds that James IV 's will had nominated her for the regency only if she remained a widow , the Scottish Estates sent for the Duke of Albany , descendant of that Stewart who had plagued James III . |
| 21 | Previously he had blamed her for the lack of sexual satisfaction she gave him , experiencing her as semi-frigid and totally unexciting . |
| 22 | Whistling ‘ I 'm in the Mood for Love ’ , and rejecting the buzz of his telephone , he had prepared himself for the chase . |
| 23 | Her duties as parents had been completed , she had prepared them for the future , they could now stand on their own feet , so she let them go . |
| 24 | Nothing in my upbringing had prepared me for the weather , much less the absurd notion of hitchhiking . |
| 25 | Nothing Isa Blagden had said had prepared her for the fright . |
| 26 | However , nothing had prepared us for the abundance and variety of scallops , mussels , every species in the shrimp to lobster continuum as well as some very funny-looking goose-neck barnacles . |
| 27 | Palottino had no answer to that , any more than Zen himself , though the question had tormented him for the whole drive back to Perugia . |
| 28 | They had to choose someone for the launching ceremony and our child 's name was first out of the hat . |
| 29 | But it was as if he had done it for the thrill of it . ’ |
| 30 | But it was as if he had done it for the thrill of it . ’ |