Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb past] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I literally jumped for joy when I heard that key turn in the lock and saw Mum and Mrs Taylor enter with another woman . |
| 2 | To make a long story short , I finally arranged for Service to record a brief message on tape which was flown to the Yukon and broadcast over loud-speakers during the cinema 's opening ceremonies . |
| 3 | ‘ But , I once played for Clandeboye as a 17-year-old in the All Ireland semi-finals of the Jimmy Bruen Foursomes , beaten in the semi-finals by Galway at Lahinch . |
| 4 | It was in a little book I once got for Christmas called Ghosts and Other Weird Creatures . |
| 5 | Erm , I took her at her word , I still looked for work , I did n't stop looking for work but I took it that she was happy enough me being on the dole if it meant that we could stay around Bay or Anglesey . |
| 6 | I remember being unable to connect those grainy breasts and pubic hair with anything in my own life — flesh , for instance — but the image gave me a mysterious frisson which I mistakenly took for sex . |
| 7 | I also asked for government accounts , and was given the summary of estimates of revenue and expenditure for 1991-2 . |
| 8 | In fact , it was about the time that David and I both auditioned for Hair and we were both turned down which I thought was quite funny because it seemed that just about everyone else in London got the part , but we were very much the kind of solo singers and perhaps the wrong type . |
| 9 | When I came to the Cotswolds and looked for a studio , before I even looked for house , I found a great barn , a wonderful old building , except that it was cathedral-like and freezing cold in the winter . |
| 10 | I had a phobia about going to the dentist , and the doctor wanted to give me tranquillizers but I did n't want to take them , so I actually went for hypnotherapy which helped . |
| 11 | Returning to camp in the evenings , I occasionally hunted for bushbuck in the forest . |
| 12 | Since then he has graduated to writing sequels to E.F.Benson 's Lucia novels , a book with the good title of Expecting Someone Taller ( which I must read sometime ) and another with the awful title of Who 's Afraid of Beowulf ? ( which I recently read for amusement , without success ) . |
| 13 | Research Triangle Park , North Carolina-based Alphatronix — which just opened for business in Birmingham , West Midlands , has announced what it calls the industry 's first open hierarchical storage management environment . |
| 14 | I 'm happy to see that the attitude of the C E C and of the General Secretary has changed radically , I would say , since last year , when it and they opposed the Liverpool motion , which also called for accountability of Labour councillors and M Ps . |
| 15 | We wanted to attract mature students with a high level of skills and commitment and were able , through the Nuffield Foundation , to provide student grants for the first part of the course which either paid for secondment salaries of allowed people who were , for instance working interpreters , to forego part of their normal paid employment . |
| 16 | Ever since she had come to Norfolk the skies had been grey , and she suddenly longed for warmth . |
| 17 | But the tumour continued to grow and she finally opted for surgery and chemotherapy . |
| 18 | I describe the proceedings here , however , because they raise questions about the willingness of the GMC to protect patients from forms of diagnosis and treatments which have not been sufficiently validated and about its lenient attitude to a doctor who persistently touted for business by attracting the interest of tabloid journalists . |
| 19 | She had thin , brittle , permed hair , and , under the blue and white checked overall she always wore for work , her legs were stringy and knotted with varicose veins . |
| 20 | Her feelings for him had been a pallid thing beside what she now felt for Fen . |
| 21 | Don Letts — who then worked for Acme Attractions and was until recently part of Big Audio Dynamite — was always in . |
| 22 | The firm is headed by Steven Gluckstern , a financial wizard who previously worked for Salomon Brothers , a Wall Street firm , and Warren Buffett 's Berkshire Hathaway investment company . |
| 23 | He was being annoying on purpose , she fumed , but , aware that this man easily had her emotions all over the place , she again strove for calm . |
| 24 | She seldom asked for advice and never took it , but Mona knew how to disguise mere advice by scoffing at any other conclusion but her own . |
| 25 | ‘ I did n't think anybody actually wrote for Reader 's Digest . |
| 26 | They would lie for hours , hardly moving , before a sudden noise startled them and they instinctively dived for cover . |
| 27 | Another achievement , which both Christine and Bernie are proud of , is the ban on hunting on council-owned land that they successfully campaigned for back in 1982 . |
| 28 | The eighteenth-century revolutionaries in America and France coined some splendid slogans about " government by the people for the people " , " no taxation without representation " , " one man ; one vote " and so on , but after some disastrous preliminary experiments with mob rule , they quickly settled for compromise ; only the existing owners of property should be qualified to vote ! |
| 29 | They also raised for consideration the possibility of reducing the period beyond the end of the accounting year in which solicitors must submit their report from 6 to 3 months . |
| 30 | They also asked for footpath improvements to protect pedestrians and other measures to minimize disruption . |