Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He lived down Gypsy Lane with his two sisters , he was a single man you see and my father and mother lived here and my , they not only mended shoes but they made them and er course naturally , you know , well of course Needham was n't as big as it is now but they made them for the best people , if that , if that 's the right , not the right expression say , but er but you know what I mean er and er and he , you know , all his life you see he did that and then one day he had a shock because his er , what would you call him colleague , he , he died suddenly in the night . |
| 2 | And she asked me for the fifty P . |
| 3 | It was only too apparent , as Olga tore into him about the disgrace she would suffer , that , like a hippie , he cared nothing for the kind of life his parents led ; he did not share their values or ambitions . |
| 4 | Gombert 's linear sense — and sometimes Crecquillon 's and Lupi 's was so strong that he cared nothing for the asperities of harsh suspensions or accented passing-notes , as in this passage from his motet , ‘ Ave sanctissima Maria ’ : |
| 5 | Tilda cared nothing for the future , and had , as a result , a great capacity for happiness . |
| 6 | Well you got me for the day today , cos I ca n't go now until I fetch the car . |
| 7 | ‘ But the biggest joke is that Pauline actually recommended me for the part because she liked me so much ! |
| 8 | I sold them for the same price that I had paid myself . |
| 9 | When they arrived at Auckland Alexander asked them for the silver and his Presence was such that they did not dare to tell him that they had no silver , so Joan said that it was ‘ in the bank ’ . |
| 10 | no I were gon na do , I got them for the days |
| 11 | But he dismissed them for the time being , having more important matters to be dealt with . |
| 12 | There was a period of incredibly intense excitement which , I think , probably sustained me for the next five or ten years . |
| 13 | The bishops also argued that any so-called restricted form of divorce was impossible to maintain in practice and that divorce might solve the partners ' problems but only created them for the children . |
| 14 | She lashed the class with scorn and ridicule and punished them for the nasty thoughts in her own mind . |
| 15 | James Boswell , for example , often used them for the former , even occasionally , apparently , for the latter ; but never it seems with his wife . |
| 16 | Our canvas stretcher-beds were quickly drenched with blood , because we used them for the worst wounded — the others had to be laid on the tiled floor . |
| 17 | It would appear from investigations that this government in nineteen eighty four did a deal with the E E C to close down shipyards in future years , for which they received millions of pounds from E E C funds , and they never used them for the purposes they were supposed to be used for . |
| 18 | And he entered me for the scholarship , , and er , I won . |
| 19 | ‘ I have discovered that the black people I have been working with in the inner cities proposed me for the award . |
| 20 | A short bubble-ride up to 1850m brought us to L'Altipiano , where we fortified ourselves for the afternoon 's skiing with a lengthy and very enjoyable lunch . |
| 21 | In what was seen as a policy of high personal risk , he proposed himself for the post of Prime Minister ( Ivan Silayev having resigned in September — see p. 38416 ) . |
| 22 | The child 's parents , and especially his father , were perceived as the obstacle to a realization of his Oedipus wishes ; so his infantile ego fortified itself for the carrying out of the repression by erecting this same obstacle within itself . |
| 23 | Mutely he blessed her for the information and , after quickly slaking his appetite , he was drawn — as if he had no will of his own — to the pothouse , where he picked up Joanna , went out with her into the fields , and made love with a sweating savagery which seemed to satisfy even her and delivered him of a madness which had gathered like an abscess . |
| 24 | His seat is secure but he is also seeing the man who defeated him for the party leadership on the way to another victory for the Tories . |
| 25 | Stoughton was even a friend of Matthew Arnold , who proposed him for the Athenaeum . |
| 26 | And Sinatra punished him for the rest of his life . |
| 27 | Britain 's golden boy who lost his shine when newcomer David Grindley beat him for the final place in today 's 400 metres final is ready to take a year off from the track if it means he can beat the trouble . |
| 28 | It was in 1977 and ‘ 78 that McEvoy won this title before Ronan Rafferty beat him for the first ( and only ) time in nearly 30 matches for England . |
| 29 | This back parlour , Hope thought , as he entered it for the third time that day , is like a little theatre : Act I , Colonel Moore ; Act II , Amaryllis ; Act III |
| 30 | ‘ You think we just built it for the tourists ? ’ |