Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | What have you given me that for ? |
| 2 | ‘ I had n't considered you ready for the council yet , ’ said Frick , when Schiller had finished . |
| 3 | They have solved something important for themselves in the turn and turn about of a twosome . |
| 4 | If they can become less blamed , they will then have resolved something important for themselves . |
| 5 | The South Africans were asking the umpires in the West Indies whether they had received their one for the over . |
| 6 | Years abroad had made them grateful for yams , bananas , cocoa beans and rice . |
| 7 | RICHARD GOUGH and Trevor Steven will be examined by Rangers ' medical staff today but the injuries sustained at Fir Park last night have made them doubtful for the European tie with FC Brugge . |
| 8 | You left him for me to tend , with never a word , and I 've done my best for him . |
| 9 | I 've done my best for that guy . ’ |
| 10 | However , the great Wallaby no.8 , Tim Gavin , after missing the World Cup — and being sorely missed there — has recovered and made himself available for selection . |
| 11 | Whereas , even if nothing goes wrong at the weekend , Mr Smith will have made himself miserable for days in advance . |
| 12 | When Faraway Moses , who was once Count St Sylvain and a Black Rider , is captured and imprisoned , Jasper the Terrible , who has made himself responsible for the boy in his own household , offers to release the man who has become like a father to Dick if he will reveal the names of the other Confederates . |
| 13 | Or somebody has stood up and done their best for their particular community or somebody 's stood up and done their best to Or has moved to somewhere . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , she had invariably done her best for her child as , indeed , she was now doing for her grandchild . |
| 15 | She had done her best for Craig , now it was up to his own kin to sort his problems out for him . |
| 16 | She lost the first two babies , you know that , and she 's always done her best for you . |
| 17 | Yes , she decided , she had tried , done her best for Cara , but … |
| 18 | It was Barbara Castle who remarked , when Mrs Thatcher became leader of the Conservatives in 1975 , that power had made her pretty for the first time . |
| 19 | No reports of flounder from the Nawddach estuary which has probably seen its worst for the species for more than ten years . |
| 20 | But then , clearly startled as some thought came to him , a sudden exclamation in his own language rent the air , and , ‘ Would I be right in thinking that no man , known to you or a recent stranger , has ever seen you ready for bed ? ’ he asked . |
| 21 | I have n't seen you both for such a long time , and you 're both of you just ! |
| 22 | He 'd done something dishonest for the first time in his business life , and it sat uneasily on his conscience . |
| 23 | I walked on , glad to have helped someone , to have done something active for once . |
| 24 | Mrs Shephard , 52 , a former inspector of schools and senior education officer , has always joked that nothing could have prepared her more for being thrown into the deep end than leaving Cromer , where her father was a cattle dealer , for St Hilda 's College , Oxford , where she read modern languages . |
| 25 | His brother has lent him some for the time being , but Mr Szuluk says without proper clothes , he ca n't get a job . |
| 26 | And Rital , whose east European eyes had seen been and done it all for more of a century than she chose to admit , merely shrugged and locked the door . |
| 27 | ‘ I could have done it all for you with one phone call if you had let me . ’ |
| 28 | He had been made mayor by the Germans during the Occupation , and had in fact done his best for the villagers . |
| 29 | The Labour government of 74–79 had made it compulsory for local education authorities to reorganise secondary schools along comprehensive lines in the 1976 Education Act , but one of the first acts of the Conservative government of 1979 was to repeal this . |
| 30 | He loved the tough life of thrill and fear and his excellent war record had made it easy for him when , in 1941 he had decided to apply to join the newly formed Parachute Regiment . |