Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1938 I was offered a programme with full rehearsal and that I accepted , though when it came to the time I asked for separate section rehearsals — first strings , then winds — which met with some opposition , particularly as the orchestra was convinced that it knew the music already . |
| 2 | I asked for certain research facilities and I got them . |
| 3 | My searches even led me to the absurdity of being directed to the deep freeze in one newsagent when I asked for Spare Rib . |
| 4 | I asked for professional counselling which I did n't get . ’ |
| 5 | I asked for special leave and borrowed the eighty pounds for a short-term return ticket on the letter-mail route to the UK . |
| 6 | As soon as I had complaints , I asked for detailed statistical material to be provided . |
| 7 | It is rather like something that I used to do as a young groundsman coming up through the ranks , when I applied for vacant jobs all over the place , the bigger and more prestigious the place the better , and more often than not without the slightest intention of taking the job if it had been offered ! |
| 8 | I still possess a tape-recording of a news report I made for Irish radio in which — to a background of Palestinian rifle fire — I hear my own voice informing listeners in the furthest villages of County Mayo that they are listening to ‘ the last shots of the Lebanese civil war ’ . |
| 9 | I planned for year-round interest and used such plants as climbing roses , clematis , jasmines , honeysuckle and Japanese quince . |
| 10 | Cos I punished for stupid things . |
| 11 | Having made a new table to replace a rather unsteady card table , there being no local shop which sold green baize , I opted for green Heuga carpet tiles . |
| 12 | ‘ I opted for full hospital care . |
| 13 | I opted for bright summertime colours but for autumn you might have brown hedgehogs shuffling through leaves of russet and gold . |
| 14 | I opted for bright welcoming lights , while my friend said that she liked warm rooms and a good fire . |
| 15 | But the managers I played for said I was the best professional . |
| 16 | I played for high stakes — and I have lost . |
| 17 | ‘ I also know that Mrs Chapman has arthritis which makes it almost impossible for her to climb those stairs to the little flat , ’ I added for good measure . |
| 18 | Another important aim I envisaged for New Millennium when it was incorporated in 1983 was the development of holiday ideas which would try to eliminate damage to the environment associated with mass tourism . |
| 19 | ‘ ’ Many the rich cheeses I pressed for ungrateful townsfolk , Yet never did I get home with much money in my pocket , ’ ' quoted Bacci , who had studied at the Liceo Classico . |
| 20 | ‘ Before I escaped from Rotterdam , I worked for British Intelligence . |
| 21 | I was my own boss for a start — the man I worked for left after about seven months , and the man who took over did n't know anything about it : I knew more about the job than he did , so I had to tell him what to do for the first six months … in fact he tried to get the job upgraded anyway . |
| 22 | The company I worked for folded just a couple of weeks ago . ’ |
| 23 | I grubbed for whole ones , baby skulls |
| 24 | Of these , the set that I selected for careful examination within the main projects is the ( pull ) set , which deals with alternation between [ u ] and [ Δ ] in a set of lexical items such as pull , put , foot , shook . |
| 25 | Also asked him for report which I needed for Statutory Review . |
| 26 | I advertised for male compositors [ to work the machines ] and got no reply . |
| 27 | I would feel bad if I knew for certain that someone was going to cosh me with a lead pipe on January 15 of that year . |
| 28 | I knew for certain I wanted to race . |
| 29 | ‘ I knew for certain when you showed me that photograph , and I realised it was Gaston , not Fabien whose picture she had kept all those years . |
| 30 | She said : ‘ It was an agonising wait until I knew for sure . ’ |