Example sentences of "[vb pp] for [pron] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | After attempting to speak to his ex-girl friend on the telephone and finding she was out he decided to have another drink , and then started to think about taking some tablets which his GP had prescribed for him at the time when his girl friend had left him . |
| 2 | Professor Fritz Eloff , the President of the powerful Northern Transvaal Union and Craven 's vice president for 20 years , substituted for him at IRB meetings abroad when Craven 's failing health repeatedly prevented him from attending . |
| 3 | The girl was glued to the spot , terror-struck , pop-eyed , quivering , knowing for certain that the Day of Judgment had come for her at last . |
| 4 | Andy has got a job to do and so have I. But if I lose he will be gutted for me at the end and if I lose I will be gutted for him . ’ |
| 5 | Apart from and me , there is , a rather lugubrious ( though pleasant ) Peruvian , and , the French Canadian , whole reminds me of , in that he expects everything to be done for him at little cost in exchange for a good wit and ready sense of humour — also like , he plays the piano , with a special line in French songs . |
| 6 | Ankhu and Nebamun would have it easier , but for the majority of privileged men work was a nominal activity as they laboured more or less intelligently in the upper ranks of the army , the civil service and the priesthood ; most of the graft was done for them at a humbler level . |
| 7 | AMERICANS have decided for themselves at the polls now it 's your turn to vote , vote , vote for the winners of the 5th Whitbread Scouseology Awards . |
| 8 | Donal was married on August 29 and shortly afterwards an appointment was made for him at the Royal Marsden Hospital in London . |
| 9 | Failing to achieve this , he was licensed as a dissenting preacher in January 1754 , had a meeting-house built for him at Warburton in Cheshire , and on 9 November 1754 was ordained as an Independent minister . |
| 10 | It was commissioned from the sculptor by the sixth Duke of Bedford and , once transported from Rome , housed in the Temple of the Graces specially built for it at Woburn . |
| 11 | Great Lengths are hair extensions made from 100% human hair , specifically prepared for you at the laboratory to match your own hair perfectly . |
| 12 | Havelock Wilson who had , of course , been among those leaders to whom Larkin 's vituperation had been particularly directed , reserved his regrets for the oppressed people of Ireland whose cause had been so ill served by the " blunders and follies " of Larkin who " had such a splendid case , but made such a sorry mess of it , doing everything he ought not to have done and nothing that he ought to " and bringing , by his defeat , comfort to the Irish employers who had nothing good to be said for them at all . |
| 13 | Last night prayers were said for her at Watton Methodist Church where her aunt is a member of the congregation . |
| 14 | I got nicked for it at Low Newton . |
| 15 | She followed him with her eyes as he walked with Emmie to the gate , very neat and spruce in the white Terylene shirt and blue shorts she had bought for him at Harrods . |
| 16 | Middleton said his friend David had called for him at 10pm on the night the bank was broken into and asked him to drive a car to Jedburgh . |
| 17 | My grandmother was taken ill with a burst ulcer and an ambulance was called for her at 10.45 , but it did not arrive for two and a half hours . |
| 18 | Fortunately most old people are all in favour of precautions of any kind , and if , in addition , you can tell her truthfully that you have just such a ‘ hospital case ’ packed for yourself at home , for an emergency , she will probably go along with the idea very willingly . |
| 19 | After that , we drove to the Ming Tombs close by , and stopped to have an enormous picnic which they had packed for us at the Friendship Hotel . |
| 20 | Charles Hill , who had spoken for me at Chatham Town Hall during the election , came up to me . |
| 21 | Whether he had had plans laid for me at the time , or whether at the back of his mind , hidden from consciousness , he knew that in taking me to live with him he would be enrolling someone to deal with the business side of his life , I was never sure . |
| 22 | The take or place booking means that the client will be offered a room if there has been a ‘ no show ’ or cancellation , and failing that accommodation will be found for them at a comparable hotel , usually within the same chain of hotels . |
| 23 | Today though Her Majesty 's ambassador to Moscow visited Maxat the horse and announced that a home has been found for him at last in the Queen 's household Cavalry . |
| 24 | In City Fur Manufacturing Co. v. Fureenbond ( 1937 K.B. ) A owned some skins which were stored for him at an independent warehouse . |
| 25 | In Nicholson v. Harper ( 1895 ) A owned some goods stored for him at a warehouse . |
| 26 | Nearly half the bottom band drew a parallel line , not a perpendicular one , and as many drew a diagonal line when asked for one at right angles . |
| 27 | Indeed Joanne was unlucky not to claim the first set , having served for it at 5–3 . |
| 28 | She was sometimes referred to as Trivia and offerings of black lambs , honey and new-born puppies were left for her at crossroads . |
| 29 | Crown lawyers told the jury that Marsh handed out a booklet called Cancer and Aids : Any Hope Left For Us at a gay pub in London . |
| 30 | That one was taken for us at Kristof Laszlo 's studio — you 'd have to ask him about it . ’ |