Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [pers pn] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | YOU recently mentioned con tricks well , I was waiting at Lime Street Station for my mother when a well-dressed man with a briefcase asked me for £1 . |
| 2 | I think Mum made it for me . |
| 3 | Well my mum got it for |
| 4 | The Board dismissed him for allegedly failing in his duties to teach junior doctors . |
| 5 | The board dismissed him for ‘ gross misconduct and gross professional negligence ’ and is still considering legal steps to recover the cash . |
| 6 | Although the first step can be steroid injections , my GP referred me for surgery at Wanstead Hospital , south London . |
| 7 | Oddly , thoughts of the stranger haunted her for the rest of that day . |
| 8 | Fallon , also enjoying the most important success of his career , said : ‘ The stands ’ side led us for a furlong , but our side was in command after that . ’ |
| 9 | Smith 's wife died in 1825 ; this loss made him for some time anxious to resign , and may help to account for the relative lack of distinction of his period of office . |
| 10 | His glance met hers for a brief , breathtaking moment , before he started forward , his stride slow , and rangy . |
| 11 | ‘ It was a pity the wind ruined it for everyone . ’ |
| 12 | A journalist interviewed him for a book about his family , and when The Nielsons appeared , it made no mention at all of his professional life . |
| 13 | It has now been decided to write to Rangers asking for their views on statements attributed to the three men since Ferguson 's club dropped him for disciplinary reasons , after which it came to light that Murray had spoken to United 's manager/chairman , Jim Mclean , about buying the Scotland internationalist . |
| 14 | The rock thanked her for helping it . |
| 15 | The superintendent thanked him for his help and bade him goodnight but with a distracted air as though her attention were elsewhere . |
| 16 | A pale blue light puzzled him for a moment , until he realised that it was the Calor gas stove in the galley . |
| 17 | Sorrel watched him for a few seconds , then snatched it out of his hands and stuck it in her mouth . |
| 18 | Although I would have been surprised if London 's Charles Dickens Society required its members to put on a white tie for its annual dinner , the invitation card demanded it for the Scott dinner . |
| 19 | The light dazzled us for a bare ten years with its brilliance , before it was extinguished . |
| 20 | Mummy bought it for Daddy really ! |
| 21 | My first girlfriend left me for a new man . |
| 22 | The interim parliament condemned him for acting contrary to the peace process , and for a gross violation of basic human rights ; Johnson had given an undertaking to Sawyer that he would desist from carrying out executions , after previous killings of rebels and civilians . |
| 23 | Well he 's saying that that bloke mistook him for somebody else then ? |
| 24 | The council passed it for allocation to youth activities . |
| 25 | A 16-YEAR-OLD boy who fired a catapult at a low-flying Sri Lankan air force helicopter yesterday was wounded when the copter 's gunner mistook him for a Tamil terrorist and shot back at him . |
| 26 | He was surprised when the girl asked him for threepence . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'd have gone there last year but for the shin splints ’ she added , before a note of irritation and frustration became evident as she went on to say ‘ This question haunted me for half of last year . |
| 28 | If , for example , your boss asked you for ideas but each time you produced one he totally disagreed with it and rejected it out of hand then , assuming you found this unpleasant , your behaviour of putting forward ideas has been punished . |
| 29 | In 1954 the publishing firm Methuen approached him for a Christmas card , as did the National Marriage Guidance Council , the latter printing 6,700 copies of his design . |
| 30 | The guard invited us for tea . |