Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [verb] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked them to work for a loose confederation of equal republics , largely self-governing , but with certain specified powers on a federal basis . |
| 2 | Well , I phoned them up , and I 'd been badgering them , and they told me to wait for a further communication . |
| 3 | And squeamishness prevented me looking for a tiny insect to place on a sticky dewdrop leaf . |
| 4 | ‘ Miss Tuckey told us to look for a narrow objective within a broader attack . |
| 5 | The man claimed he spoke for a large group of serving and former policemen who styled themselves ‘ the Inner Circle ’ . |
| 6 | There were two men apart from the one with the rifle and she heard them quarrelling for a long time in another room . ’ |
| 7 | Controllers urged him to make for a remote runway which would take him over fields and small villages . |
| 8 | She often urged him to look for a suitable girl , but he always replied that there was plenty of time and to date no one had taken his fancy . |
| 9 | Shufflebotham watched him work for a few moments . |
| 10 | This led her to search for a continuous tradition which had been activated by occult means and linked the French and Russian Revolutions . |
| 11 | However , his abiding passion for collecting recipes and formulas kept him experimenting for a further twenty years , perfecting the transfer-printing process . |
| 12 | Like when a drunken Richard Burton nodded off in the middle of a question ; the time Warren Beatty kept him waiting for an hour-and-a-half … and the day Robert Raging Bull De Niro looked as if he was about to punch him on the nose . |
| 13 | In any event , before the disastrous situation which sent him to jail for a short period , I had one other encounter . |
| 14 | Although he made a huge bonfire of his papers and correspondence in 1916 , and kept it going for a few days , Edward preserved all her letters along with his notebooks . |
| 15 | So I got Peggy up from Somerset , on the same farm you see , and that was much better , and erm we 've been cycling to Stroud , to the pictures you know , 8 miles there and 8 miles back , and erm but the awful job he gave me to do for a few days was along , there was a young lad there and he was going to drive the old heavy fords and tractor and I was going to walk behind , and he 'd got converted horse drags I suppose they call them |
| 16 | on an underground train which could n't decide if it 's going to move or not , it did eventually move I got a taxi at one point and I was so sick and tired and they put me outside Liberties , I gave the man a twenty pound note and he gave me change for a ten yes , coming back from Oxford Circus from Liberty 's , I thought I 'd better economise , I 've been done out of ten pounds , I do n't think it was dishonesty I think it was just sheer muddle , I , I 'm ten pounds down , I 'm must cut down a bit , so I will come back underground from Oxford Circus to Waterloo to get down to and you 've guessed it , I got into an , an underground train which would not move , it simply stuck , and it would go chugga , chugga , chugga , chugga , chugga , then it would stop in the tunnel for a while , while its . |
| 17 | So did I. He had me figured for a working stiff out to do the day 's chores , and he was n't going to bother an upright member of the community . |
| 18 | That left him deciding for a long time which club to use for his third shot . |
| 19 | Mr Kearsley said he hoped for an out-of-court settlement . |
| 20 | Billy suggested they look for a shady spot for the picnic in the covert they were approaching . |
| 21 | erm who was national account manager wanted us to relieve for an exploratory |