Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv] for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Couple of chaps at the school got booted out for that stuff and I never did get round to it . ’ |
| 2 | In the winter of 1940–41 a number of public figures contacted by the left-of-centre owner of Picture Post , Edward Hulton , agreed to work together for greater efficiency , vigour and democracy in the prosecution of the war . |
| 3 | ALLY McCOIST last night declared himself fit for tomorrow 's European Cup match against CSKA Moscow — and vowed to make up for lost time . |
| 4 | McLaren then began shopping around for another label , pointedly ignoring Virgin . |
| 5 | The sergeant looked at her closely , obviously wondering if she planned to run off for some reason . |
| 6 | ‘ So , I started looking around for another job and heard that Mike Martinez , the agent , was looking for someone to do some secretarial work and some negotiating , and that he preferred English girls for such work . |
| 7 | Officials warned to look out for banned runner |
| 8 | Hugo glanced at his watch , and decided to press on for another half-hour . |
| 9 | And that 's when we started putting in for annual wage increases . |
| 10 | Shrimp kept going up for some water , trod on Andrew . |
| 11 | But one matter the Society resisted pronouncing on for some time was the question of its own criteria for membership . |
| 12 | The peasants in the Roslavl' region did come in for some attention during 1922 , though supervision was at best paternalistic , sporadic , and myopic . |
| 13 | If Attlee had carried on for another year , and the economy had turned round , Labour might still be in power . |
| 14 | Edward continued to stand there for another minute or two . |
| 15 | The train was electrically lighted , and in order to economise current when the train had to stand by for some time , nearly every lamp was under separate control . |
| 16 | He continued to drink quietly for another hour before going in to dinner . |
| 17 | As so often on this tour , Rubin Smith and Lamb were the main architects , both playing aggressively after David Smith , flown out to replace the injured Gooch , had hung around for some time to get accustomed to the conditions only to get a bruised thumb in the process . |
| 18 | The one that eluded him was that of the Association of Golf Writers which , asked to nominate who had done most for European golf , decided on the Walker Cup team that went to the United States and won the trophy there for the first time . |
| 19 | Nesta Webster , however , who was a member of the grand council for three months in 1926 and 1927 , thought that the BF had done more for British patriotism than all the other middle-class organizations put together , and soon after leaving established a Patriots Enquiry Centre , a kind of Die-hard library where the ultra-right could study the socialist menace . |
| 20 | Then an owl suddenly hooted nearby , making her jump , and she hastily decided she had done enough for one evening . |
| 21 | Of course , since his release , he had made up for lost time , becoming quite a wheel in the charity game , but those two years had stayed with him . |
| 22 | The first person she had opened up for that morning had been the postman at five past eight . |
| 23 | So then I had to put in for another grant because he 'd smashed every damn thing . |
| 24 | Broadly , the survey confirmed that parents of children with special needs had not been given a real choice of placement , and that they had to fight hard for mainstream provision if this was their choice . |
| 25 | The silence had stretched out for some time . |
| 26 | This is what I had set out for last week . ’ |
| 27 | The neo-Nazi Republicans ( Republikaner ) had campaigned strongly for German reunification , while also playing on West German fears engendered by the flood of immigrants from Eastern Europe , but failed to win the 5 per cent of votes needed to win representation in the Landtag . |
| 28 | And this had gone on for some time and he was down on the shore anyway one night and looking out across the the sea and thinking long for Eday and he met this man . |
| 29 | It had gone on for some time , she could n't say how long . |
| 30 | Det Insp Jeff Crowther said : ‘ This incident could have been worse if it had gone on for any length of time . ’ |