Example sentences of "[pron] [vb pp] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two of , two of them departed for a period of six months . |
| 2 | Now to keep them occupied for the journey . |
| 3 | ‘ Has someone arranged for a wheelchair ? ’ |
| 4 | How many times had I prayed for the impossible ? |
| 5 | It should also lead you to ask another vital check question : Exactly how much time have I got for the presentation ? |
| 6 | Someone sent for the narrator 's father : ‘ My father said : ‘ I 'll come later on tonight : I 'll catch him for you . ’ |
| 7 | In 1985 Peruvian fishermen caught around 10,000 dolphins and porpoises , most of them destined for the fish markets of Peru 's capital Lima , making Peru second only to Japan in the consumption of dolphin flesh . |
| 8 | The two of them dated for a while , but it did n't work out . |
| 9 | She looked around but could see nothing prepared for the arrival of a baby Maggie seemed to have had no nesting instincts at all . |
| 10 | But because he was n't , I worked as hard as I could until dark , about night time , to get them done for the next day . |
| 11 | Citilend Ltd v Stuart Craggs provides an example of a case in which a haulier finds himself sued for a commercial misdemeanour — hire purchase default — in the Queen 's Bench Division . |
| 12 | Kohl had called for a European federal police force modelled on the US Federal Bureau of Investigation but the UK favoured an inter-governmental rather than a supranational force , although Major himself called for a " strong perimeter fence " around the EC to prevent a wave of illegal immigrants . |
| 13 | Mr Shamir , besieged by his party 's hawks , refused to accept America 's terms for holding Israeli-Palestinian talks in Cairo to prepare the election he had himself proposed for the occupied West Bank and Gaza . |
| 14 | The night outside was drizzling with rain , and everyone except himself hurried for a cab ; the flower-sellers were disconsolate . |
| 15 | He held himself poised for a moment , then he thrust hard into the boy 's body . |
| 16 | Have you fallen for the coy-virgin act , my darling ? |
| 17 | Had she arranged for the sets to be changed three times during a dinner party , she would have seen to it that everybody noticed . |
| 18 | Why had n't she arranged for the house to be sold so that Fabien de Rochefort could at least be repaid to some extent ? |
| 19 | That in itself made for a notable afternoon at Fraser Park , not that goodwill will be the principal factor on offer when the serious business starts at Lancaster Park , Christchurch , on Saturday . |
| 20 | What arrangement have you made for the children if they are ill or on holiday ? |
| 21 | And if they do , are there still people like Chris Hunter to answer a thousand times a day : what have you got for a penny ? |
| 22 | What sort of safety training had you had for an evacuation or in fact a a slow evacuation from the platform while you were out there ? |
| 23 | The [ Act of 1916 ] itself provided for an alternative form of stealing — larceny by a bailee who ‘ fraudently converts ’ the bailed goods . |
| 24 | Had she opted for the wrong values ? |
| 25 | Why have you opted for a relatively modestly sized premises rather than a larger exhibition area ? |
| 26 | She said where 's that fucking Tara she gone for a fucking blow again and they 're all laughing and she said what are you fucking bastards laughing at and there 's Tara there with tears down her face Tara tried to tell her she fell off the chair well that was it . |
| 27 | Er , how are you fixed for the beginning of next month ? or the week after that ? |
| 28 | Have you gone for the longer length ? |
| 29 | Above all , that the word is the irreducible , the minimum unit , itself enshrined for every in the silver columns of the dictionary . |
| 30 | The President ( currently Chaim Herzog ) is elected every five years , and appoints a Prime Minister ( currently Itzhak Shamir ) on the basis of the distribution of power between parties in the Knesset ( parliament ) , which is itself elected for a maximum of four years . |