Example sentences of "[pron] and [vb pp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they were told that he was still at lunch , Morton thought that Bragg would explode , but he controlled himself and settled for a middle-aged assistant . |
| 2 | He went back into Iraq , in the marshes , at great personal danger to himself and translated for me when we met some Shias . |
| 3 | Two lovers from the village , looking for a quiet spot , found them and sent for help . |
| 4 | Their presence is still obvious around the city , in statues and monuments , in buildings used by them and restored for other purposes now , and at the church they attended , St Paul 's in the Jewellery Quarter . |
| 5 | I carried you in my body for nine months , I loved you and cared for you , why did you do this to yourself ? ’ |
| 6 | If you have to stay away overnight you can arrange for accommodation to be found for you and paid for by ES . |
| 7 | ‘ In the old days , ’ said Hussa , ‘ if you had a bad thing like the smallpox , or something others could catch , you were put far away from people in a small hut where things were brought to you and left for you . |
| 8 | At the Easter vestry in 1818 Merceron was voted out , and shortly afterwards he was convicted of the charges against him and imprisoned for eighteen months . |
| 9 | Exulting in her escape , she closed the outer door behind her and made for the great outdoors like a child let out of school . |
| 10 | I held on to her and called for help . ’ |
| 11 | But Pavel was level-headed , and he knew that he had a certain inner strength ; nobody could have kept her and cared for her in secret and for so long without it . |
| 12 | I was dismayed that we had disturbed her and apologised for having made a noise . |
| 13 | His black eyes were sharp as he looked at her and thought for a moment . |
| 14 | They were apprehensive about opening it and sent for the Bomb Squad . |
| 15 | See I , I personally in , in the past I would 've jumped on it and gone for it . |
| 16 | Maurin , who had been longing for an excuse to escape , said he would go himself to attend to it and made for the door . |
| 17 | Chesarynth sensed it and realized for the first time that what she was hearing was nothing but verbally-trimmed ideas . |
| 18 | Afterwards she thought that perhaps only her father had really enjoyed her wedding , and , as he had engineered it and paid for it , then perhaps that was his reward . |
| 19 | We must move from the idea that the animals were given to us and made for us , to the idea that we were made for creation , to serve it and ensure its continuance . |
| 20 | This offered Members of Lloyd 's saleroom valuations of their works of art without charge or obligation , as well as advance payments on works of art consigned to auction ‘ up to 35% of the estimated proceeds of sale when the items have been delivered to us and entered for sale ’ . |