Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [to-vb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd arranged to meet for dinner , but it seemed he had n't been able to wait . |
| 2 | She was much happier person because this this she 'd threatened to do for a long time . |
| 3 | So , if I pass my er printed overheads for this one an allowance er , is , and you were talking about it really , you were using this as though it were going to be er , your money that you 'd got to spend for doing each one of those activities or each bit of work within the , the project . |
| 4 | And er but at er there you 'd got to go for the other two years , and some parents were rather wondering whether that left you late in the queue for a job , because jobs were very difficult . |
| 5 | Once they 'd done with our , figures and our faces then we 'd got to look for our innards and so we had had to have inner cleanliness . |
| 6 | And we 'd got to pay for it which was usually another five bob . |
| 7 | The glamorous nightdress I 'd bought to wear for his visit was still lying in my locker and , instead , I was wearing a shabby old hospital gown . |
| 8 | Do you know , on the first night , Malcolm Harris did n't know about the cuts we 'd had to make for time . |
| 9 | He showed me the location of Bentwaters in the old AA Book of the Road I always carried and then bought the two ounces of Red from me at four times what I 'd agreed to pay for it . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'd stayed to look for the aristocratic drop-out . |
| 11 | When she 'd gone to work for the Bradfords Paddy had been left on his own and it had got worse than a pigsty then . |
| 12 | And went on , ‘ When my mother died , ten years ago , my father did what he 'd wanted to do for a long time and moved into here , leaving me the palazzo . ’ |
| 13 | Originally I 'd hoped to apply for Scale 2 posts … but there are very few jobs , now . |
| 14 | If I 'd tried to run for it . |
| 15 | But when we moved in here , because I 'd been away from him for five months and I 'd learned to cope for myself , I started standing up for myself and he did n't like it . |
| 16 | But none of it was true — she 'd only said it to cover her own growing confusion , a confusion she now realised had come out of what she 'd begun to feel for him . |
| 17 | Ted 's initial fear was that they 'd done something stupid and run away together , but then after a while he 'd begun to hope for this and nothing worse . |
| 18 | If you had a talent , you were recognised , and often I got invited to play for the local Boy Scout group . |
| 19 | Presumably he had in mind — nothing else would have been reconcilable with his profession of non-violence — not so much killing as bravely standing up to be killed , but the position was one he felt constrained to apologize for later . |
| 20 | Prince Charles had intended to wait for Cumberland to attack , but after his troops had endured this merciless fire for 20 minutes or more one commander warned Lord George Murray that his men ‘ were turned so impatient that they were like to break their ranks ’ and the pretender agreed to an immediate attack . |
| 21 | Below it stood the childhood doll 's house she had intended to renovate for posterity and the guitar whose broken strings had halted her on the path to world fame as a singer of gypsy ballads , in a costume of scarlet and yellow sewn with little mirrors . |
| 22 | She had intended to stay for a weekend . |
| 23 | Mr Bouverie was a solicitor , Peter said , but he had wanted to be a priest , had intended to try for ordination if cancer had not prevented it . |
| 24 | There was indeed a steady brain drain ; and some , like Lieberich , had intended to come for a visit rather than to stay permanently . |
| 25 | Her faithful shadow , a Yorkshire terrier called Heathcliffe , was just as confused ; and the time that we had arranged to meet for lunch was fast approaching . |
| 26 | Every evening I had tea with the friend or two with whom I had arranged to mess for the " half " , as a term was known at Eton . |
| 27 | We had resolved to press for a route which would take the march into the walled centre of the city and expected opposition from the moderate members of the CRA . |
| 28 | And now that Lucy had resolved to stay for a few days , she decided to tell her aunt to expect her when she saw her . |
| 29 | It is a stretch of coast that 30-year-old Elizabeth , from St Albans , Herts , working in Durban , had come to love for its wildlife . |
| 30 | And if the stranger had come to ask for his two pounds back , my sister would gladly have given it to him . |