Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] for [noun sg] " 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 | Then John got done for burglary and he was put away five days before I got out . |
| 3 | And we got done for conspiracy to cause GBH . |
| 4 | He knew that he 'd fallen for bait like a fool . |
| 5 | There 's a photograph of him standing in front of the cabbages that he 'd grown for victory wearing his Home Guard uniform . |
| 6 | That was more than she 'd done for Dane , she realised , feeling the first faint stirrings of doubt . |
| 7 | I 'd applied for Mastermind in three previous years but was unsuccessful and even had an audition in 1989 . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Gulls picked at the mudbanks where once he 'd searched for jewellery . |
| 10 | She could use the sugar she 'd got for building bricks for a new shed I reckon , the amount she 'd got there . |
| 11 | If you took eggs there used to always be a lady there at dinner time what used to come round and ask you what you 'd got for dinner , and then if you 'd got eggs , she used to write your name on the eggs and do them for you . |
| 12 | He could remember the distant past and his family and friends , but ask him where he 'd just been , what he 'd had for lunch and which room he 'd just come out of , and he was stumped . |
| 13 | When I left school , which was in nineteen thirty , it was a bad time for employment , there was a lot of unemploy unemployed people and I tried and tried and eventually I was offered a job at the Bloxwich Lock and Stamping Company in Bell Lane Alexander works , it was er er Squires 's were , er it 's a family er er concern , and erm it was the first offer I 'd had for employment so I took it . |
| 14 | But the breath she 'd drawn for speech was expelled in a sigh of frustration . |
| 15 | She 'd asked for warmth — and here it was and she did n't like it . |
| 16 | She 'd asked for time , had n't she ? |
| 17 | He knew that he 'd been close , but then somehow it had all slipped away from him ; when Alina had n't come out and the three of them had finally gone into the building , it was to find incomprehension from the woman who lived alone and an empty flat where she said she 'd gone for help . |
| 18 | He tried to deny he 'd been to the village at first , but when I told him I 'd watched his every move he said he 'd gone for toothpaste and avoided our constables because he did n't think they 'd allow him to go out . ’ |
| 19 | I tried to call you there but was told you 'd left for home . ’ |
| 20 | She knew he 'd worked for Bonanza , and the chances were that in her nervous condition she would n't question his appearance . |
| 21 | Mediterranean , perhaps , if the skin colour that he 'd taken for suntan was natural . |
| 22 | The warning her anxious mother had impressed on her as they 'd waited for Folly 's plane at Athens airport had obviously been quite correct . |
| 23 | She 'd dressed for breakfast in shorts and T-shirt and it was n't the ideal outfit for talking business with hotel managers . |
| 24 | He 'd paid for insurance but the travel agency had n't passed his premium on to its insurers . |
| 25 | It embarrassed him still more when she arrived dressed for bed herself as well , a complex bundle of diaphanous nightwear from the midst of which her poised cigarette arm stuck out oddly , like an awkward projection emrging from some ill-wrapped Christmas parcel . |
| 26 | Patients were invited to participate by letter and those who consented attended for outpatient review . |
| 27 | The majority , which I did n't have time to scan , appeared designed for juvenile rather than adult readers . |
| 28 | Clearly intended to curb the activities of nationalist guerrilla groups operating in the Transcaucasian and Central Asian republics ( particularly Armenia ) , the decree appeared designed for use equally to prevent militia units being formed in the Baltic republics as an alternative to the Soviet police and armed forces . |
| 29 | The Shah subsequently told the Israeli foreign minister , Abba Eban , that he had jumped for joy at Nassers gemmulation victory . |
| 30 | It had been courteously framed , but Goibniu had arranged for Balor to go with them and Floy had known — and everyone had known — that it had not really been a request but a command . |