Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] [vb past] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ch king prawn chow mein with the noodles and stuff and he had whip marks all over him but anyway I ate all that and I did n't have a sweet , , did n't have a sweet and I we went out for a while and on the way home |
| 2 | We did a production of The Caretaker , which I designed , directed and in which I played on for the characters . ’ |
| 3 | I 'm sure Father Chris would be pleased to hear that and would be very flattered to hear that as well but erm he 's erm I 'm sure he does try to live by those rules because er obviously that 's one of the bases of his life but erm I was thinking more in terms of somebody who stood up for themse stood up for what they believe in in a situation where it was difficult . |
| 4 | There was a knock on the door , and Miranda jumped to let in Xanthe , carrying a crinkly air-mail-paper version of The Times , and a copy of Paris-Match with a photograph of Bardot , which she held up for Miranda to see . |
| 5 | For the first time since Tamar had met her , the putty-coloured cheeks were flushed and the hands which she held out for the child were shaking . |
| 6 | He was aware of one thing about Ken on these trips : his concern about a lack of education which he made up for with his voracious reading . |
| 7 | While Baldwin 's succession to Bonar Law in 1923 has been almost overdiscussed , practically no attention has been given to the way in which he slipped in for the third time in 1935 . |
| 8 | Prince Adam promptly donated the entire museum to a foundation which he set up for the purpose , to which he also ceded all his rights to his pre-war estates and property . |
| 9 | In the city itself there is the Oskar Reinhart Foundation , which he set up for Winterthur in his lifetime , and which houses over six hundred works by Swiss , German and Austrian artists of the sixteenth , seventeenth and eighteenth centuries . |
| 10 | The effects of reducing sleep on sleep patterns have been studied in a number of relatively short experiments , and one which went on for two years . |
| 11 | Her voice was no longer the fussy one she put on for ticking Léonie off . |
| 12 | Celia , having taken an extra sleeping-pill on his insistence , did not wake , and he himself dozed off for half an hour . |
| 13 | just happened to go in one day for some meat and I got me bacon there for Christmas , that 's what I went in for were n't it ? |
| 14 | But Molly knew he would say when they got home , ‘ For what I shelled out for the water we might as well have filled the loos up with Chianti . ’ |
| 15 | Is that what you signed up for ? |
| 16 | Where do I need for Kids ' County , what you rang up for ? |
| 17 | Where are we after the Kids ' County you know what you rang up for in the first place ? |