Example sentences of "[vb past] [det] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now that 's a modern version , again I made that for a couple of years ago but the tradition there was you knitted on hands and you ladies will probably know , four pins , no seams , all on the circular , right up to the neck and then the cast on the sleeve there and again , no seams . |
| 2 | She got that for a finger , what about the |
| 3 | But if you can see it written down , you got that for an essay , it 's so much better . ’ |
| 4 | Well I got that , I got that for the wee ones . |
| 5 | In Margate crime rose by twenty percent last year we found that for the victims of crime here the use of cautioning has undermined confidence in the justice system . |
| 6 | Yeah well , you see , we found that for the first three or four years now they 've gradually dropped off a bit , but they did used to , I mean they still come , but it |
| 7 | They bought the potatoes and they put them into this machine to mix them up with a couple of pails of water and then they drained all the taters off and left the milk that was left and used that for the baking . |
| 8 | The conversion into owner-farmers of those who had hitherto been tenants or agricultural labourers provided many for the first time with genuine prospects of making a decent living , unburdened by debts , high rents or heavy taxes . |
| 9 | I added that for the old tape , you know ? |
| 10 | But the woman , though she must , of course , have realized that she was no longer beautiful , forgot that for the moment . |
| 11 | But the outsider of three , trained near Thirsk by Andrew Stringer , made all for a runaway success over two well fancied raiders from fashionable southern yards . |
| 12 | I watched that for a cha , we watched that for a change last night cos we watch Blind Date . |
| 13 | I watched that for a cha , we watched that for a change last night cos we watch Blind Date . |
| 14 | Famous animal cemeteries included those for the cat goddess Bastet at Bubastis , for the crocodile god Sobek at Kom Ombo , for the ibis of Thoth at Abydos , and at Memphis , at Saqqara , there was a great series of cemeteries and underground galleries for cats , ibises , baboons and hawks . |
| 15 | as to which of those distinguished people should be dispensed with , but nevertheless it might be the advantage of everybody if the numbers of the cabinet were reduced to sixteen , I personally thought that for a very long time . |
| 16 | The truth according to the letter , is that it was the Baron , the Mayor of Strasbourg who sang this for the very first time . |
| 17 | But when I talk about that good feeling between police and public , it , it mattered more for the local policeman . |
| 18 | The space under the the ‘ ninety ’ when David Plain remade that for the stickers that went out he took it out , he took half of it out , and that really infuriated me . |
| 19 | You bought that for the shop did you |
| 20 | I did that for a year until the scheme finished . |
| 21 | I spat into my fingers and used them , then found his foreskin was loose enough to be rolled back and forth over the head , and did that for a while . |
| 22 | I think erm casualty was the worst in that you had very very long hours to do erm sometimes you were on call from five o'clock in the evening until nine o'clock the following morning , and you did that for a whole week so by the end of the time you really did feel inhuman , you were very very tired . |
| 23 | well he did that for a while |
| 24 | I did that for the nose |
| 25 | they did that for the school children |
| 26 | It did little for the image of a man who has been part of the backbone of the team for so long , and was playing in his eighty-seventh Test . |
| 27 | This remarkable volte face did little for the president 's public reputation , was the cause of much scathing comment in the media and , not surprisingly , a poll revealed that 86 per cent of Americans , ‘ had no confidence in the ability of the President to manage the economy ’ . |
| 28 | On a hot day the engine-out rate of climb did little for the blood pressure . |
| 29 | His ministry did little for the more difficult problem of the ‘ residuum ’ . |
| 30 | This may have prevented some children of artisans falling into poverty as a result of the decline of skilled occupations , but it did little for the lowest stratum who were always the most vulnerable to severe poverty . |