Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [vb past] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I used a variant of it in a pastiche of the 1930s story I wrote for the fiftieth anniversary of Collins Crime Club in 1980 . |
| 2 | I had to tag him on to group deals as a makeweight — you know , like the contract I did for twelve of my players with UK Airlines . |
| 3 | My deeper antipathy to Germany and Germans I restrained for a while , on the absurd grounds that it was somehow unreasonable to abominate each of two mutually ill-disposed nations . |
| 4 | After replacing the 'phone I waited for the tingling to stop then looked at my watch . |
| 5 | After the winner I rode for him at York . ’ |
| 6 | concrete stairs and , George nearly killed himself on them one morning , but er , and we tried everything to get out of there you know , no one would exchange a two bedroom maisonette for a house and of course I longed for a garden , but , and er George got a job in Hatfield and they offered this three bedroom house The Commission for The New Town , rent was cheaper than here , so we moved over there , but er , as I say we were only there two , three years and we came back again , we were over here , we used to come over here three times a week , when we lived there did n't we ? |
| 7 | Some nerve , and of course I went for it . |
| 8 | A psychological astronomer , I calculated its apogee at approximately 2 to 3 o'clock , unless of course I stopped for a drink . |
| 9 | At the previous election I stood for election to a United Kingdom Parliament , as did the hon. Gentleman . |
| 10 | That afternoon I left for Abu Dhabi with the promise that I would indeed see them in Al Ain in a week 's time . |
| 11 | In the summers I rode for hours on a white pedal car with a hooter and real spark plugs . |
| 12 | In Guildford I saw for the second time the travelling exhibition ‘ Architecture in Context ’ , staged by the RIBA 's South East Region . |
| 13 | I put aside some of the money I got for the silver , because Daddy meant to divide his things between us both . ’ |
| 14 | I just love sitting and reading and doing NOTHING … a huge man came here the other day and practically THREATENED me if I would n't write my life story … offered me any money I asked for … but thank God I am well off now . |
| 15 | I did not usurp power but I did greatly broaden the use of executive power , in other words this is the modesty part I acted for the public welfare , I acted for the common wellbeing of all our people whenever and in whatever manner was necessary unless prevented by direct constitutional or legislative prohibition Roosevelt suggested that the president subject only to the people of the United States and he identified himself with Andrew Jackson and with Abraham Lincoln . |
| 16 | Randalstown are the side everyone tipped for league glory . |
| 17 | The deal I concluded for Jean-Claude amounted to twice the sum that had been pencilled in . |
| 18 | ‘ The goals I scored for Charlton and Wednesday were basically created by other players but I think it 's just a matter of time before they start going in again and it should help my game when Geoff Thomas is fit , ’ he added . |
| 19 | The massed volumes that take up the wall next to the window are evidence of the research I did for my first and second books : one a dual biography of two late Victorian figures , the politician George Wyndham and the poet and political campaigner Wilfred Scawen Blunt ; the other a life of the Edwardian Prime Minister Arthur Balfour . |
| 20 | I have no interest to declare in the construction industry , but during my first 10 years in that industry I worked for John Laing , then I worked for Wimpey for about eight years , and I was the head of the largest direct labour organisation in the country — the Greater London council — for nearly three years . |
| 21 | I had never been a member of the Labour Party , and on the first occasion when I could claim a vote I voted for the Liberal candidate in the Hampstead constituency . |
| 22 | The worst thing was my Bible and books I had for Pat McDonald were gone too . |
| 23 | I thought was one of the other books I ordered for you with regard to what they call it |
| 24 | The two books I chose for my study are ‘ Fahrenheit 451 ’ by Ray Bradbury and ‘ Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ’ by Philip K. Dick . |
| 25 | The first piece I wrote for the New Statesman , almost exactly four years ago , began : ‘ People keep asking me , ‘ On what platform will you be standing for deputy leader of the Labour Party ? ' |
| 26 | ‘ If you must have chapter and verse — you remember that piece I did for the Statesman ? |
| 27 | The words I dreamed for you , |
| 28 | But when I did so , the words I uttered for the record were that I could not accept that the proper constitutional practices , as I understood them , were being observed . |
| 29 | somebody 's Chronicle I borrowed for some reason |
| 30 | He probably reprogrammed the courier I sent for her , insisted on a hidden message-box to record her arrival , the whole works . |