Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [verb] for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In these cases , financial security , a reluctance to move to a new employer , and proximity to the statutory pension age , coupled with a desire to do other things with their time or simply to stop working , led them to opt for early retirement . |
| 2 | She seemed so happy and positive and the thing that made me opt for that hospital was when she said , ‘ Childbirth is the woman 's experience , we 're just here to back you up . ’ |
| 3 | Nerves got the better of me and only when Les Cox stopped me to go for another take did I realise I 'd got my letters mixed up and had inadvertently said : ‘ Will you switch these sans off please ? |
| 4 | Not content with Mont Blanc , last year found him searching for another challenge . |
| 5 | He waited , out of long experience with dominant characters , until a natural break occurred and used it to ask for some background , starting with how long the Minister had known Miss Morgan . |
| 6 | In the silence that followed I reached for another scone . |
| 7 | She heard him reach for another sandwich . |
| 8 | It was this disappearance that really roused my suspicion , and started me searching for some kind of pattern to make sense of these changes . |
| 9 | A few years before he died he posed for this effigy , placing the completed picture in his room , adjacent to his bed , as a memento mori . |
| 10 | The picaresque vitality of Richardson 's novel begins to wane early in the third volume ( a frequent fate of follow-ups ) and , as a theatre audience does not have the opportunity to plough through stodgy bits in their own time , we felt it made for better drama to kill Pamela ( in the novel she comes near to death ) before the dramatic conflict itself dies . |
| 11 | Hungary 's need for loans and its trade surplus problems with the Soviet Union led it to look for other trading partners within Europe . |
| 12 | How much did you pay for this pen in the market ? |
| 13 | What what did you do for this job ? |
| 14 | ‘ O Jesus Christ , ’ he said , looking over my shoulder as if JC had just wandered in from the garden , ‘ did you die for this boy ? ’ |
| 15 | did she hesitate for some time before the answers ? |
| 16 | But why did they go for absolute egalitarianism in the first place then ? |
| 17 | I fought for them two , to get that home for her , so I said no , the only way you 'll do it , and I , when she were on her own , I said , not that I do n't trust Nigel , I do , but you do n't know what 's gon na happen in ten , in ten years time , I said I fought for that house for you , if you exchange it , you exchange it in your name |
| 18 | And one of the sisters she said she started for this company did n't she . |
| 19 | But never had he felt for any woman the things he felt for Julia Gillingham . |