Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm on the on the twenty third or thereabouts on the twenty third of March of this year I myself got stopped for drink driving . |
| 2 | I , I just I just got prepared for Steven though . |
| 3 | Then John got done for burglary and he was put away five days before I got out . |
| 4 | And we got done for conspiracy to cause GBH . |
| 5 | It was like from head to toe there was these marks on my body where I had bruises , and I got done for police assault — I could n't believe it ! |
| 6 | Wendell 's voice was quiet and matter-of-fact as he said , ‘ I guessed some time ago that you 'd fallen for Harry . ’ |
| 7 | He knew that he 'd fallen for bait like a fool . |
| 8 | YOU only had to walk into the members ' lobby of the Commons yesterday to know what you 'd suspected for days . |
| 9 | There had been so much to see and she 'd ached for Fernando to be beside her to show her everything . |
| 10 | But when it when a bill came up and it would take away the money that we 'd saved for Kelly 's new school uniform , so it always seemed to come in a rush and there was always something needed like you know . |
| 11 | However , I knew at least a couple of players because I 'd caddied for Roger Fidler in the 1977 British Open while I was still an assistant , and I 'd also carried Florentina Melina 's bag . |
| 12 | When I asked Lee what 's going on , he told me this guy had met him at the airport and that he had a letter and had said he 'd caddied for Henry Cotton . |
| 13 | Birmingham City 's Peter Crawford , who claimed a ‘ school record ’ for the number of suspensions from Mirfield Secondary School , was taken , along with other pupils , to the then Aston Manor Club ( now Aston Villa ABC ) by ‘ a school teacher called Kane who 'd boxed for Ireland at one stage ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ It was the first speech I 'd made for ages . |
| 15 | Ivan had given it to him , with the wooden doll he 'd made for Valeria . |
| 16 | It was the first airedale I 'd seen for years , maybe the first since the two that shadowed my childhood . |
| 17 | A glimmer of sun , the first they 'd seen for days in a chillier than average English summer , was gilding the meadow-sweet creamy-white in the tangled hedgerows . |
| 18 | There 's a photograph of him standing in front of the cabbages that he 'd grown for victory wearing his Home Guard uniform . |
| 19 | I 'd make it me business to er yes and course it was to his trade good jobs as he 'd done for customers , had it done so well , they told somebody else and it brought in trade , see what I mean ? |
| 20 | Pouring the wine , just as he 'd done for Marianne Novaks . |
| 21 | His bedroom was the Sleeping Beauty scene he 'd done for Biba 's children 's department and the kitchen area was full of artificial trees — which his party guests used to piss against . |
| 22 | I was standing in the back of a small boat , drifting down some English river I 've never seen — the kind with dappled , overhang-ing leaves reflected in the water — grasping a punt-pole in my hands and propelling the flat boat like it was something I 'd done for years . |
| 23 | That was more than she 'd done for Dane , she realised , feeling the first faint stirrings of doubt . |
| 24 | I 'd applied for Mastermind in three previous years but was unsuccessful and even had an audition in 1989 . ’ |
| 25 | In 1983 , Aintree racecourse — the home of the Grand National — seemed destined for development and a public appeal had failed to raise the money necessary to purchase it for the nation . |
| 26 | Gulls picked at the mudbanks where once he 'd searched for jewellery . |
| 27 | She felt great , better rested than she 'd felt for weeks now , the little aches of fatigue she 'd been growing used to now all miraculously ironed out . |
| 28 | Just three years ago a French doctor , Professor Etienne-Emile Baulieu of the University of Paris , saw the launch of the pill he 'd researched for years . |
| 29 | When Chelsea wanted a bit more than the £2.5million United offered for Andy Townsend , the club pulled out of the deal . |
| 30 | So that black top that sweatshirt top that I 'd got for Lee , it was seventeen ninety nine , you got that for thirteen pounds , forty five erm thirty two pound off . |