Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the end we compromised , Singh apologised and I agreed to pay for repairs to his sidelight . |
| 2 | It was like from head to toe there was these marks on my body where I had bruises , and I got done for police assault — I could n't believe it ! |
| 3 | I got paid for August which was quite clever really cos my date would of been sort of half way through to book my holiday |
| 4 | I 'd applied for Mastermind in three previous years but was unsuccessful and even had an audition in 1989 . ’ |
| 5 | It was the first airedale I 'd seen for years , maybe the first since the two that shadowed my childhood . |
| 6 | I was standing in the back of a small boat , drifting down some English river I 've never seen — the kind with dappled , overhang-ing leaves reflected in the water — grasping a punt-pole in my hands and propelling the flat boat like it was something I 'd done for years . |
| 7 | ‘ It was the first speech I 'd made for ages . |
| 8 | However , I knew at least a couple of players because I 'd caddied for Roger Fidler in the 1977 British Open while I was still an assistant , and I 'd also carried Florentina Melina 's bag . |
| 9 | I had dressed as well as I could that morning , in more or less the same stuff I 'd worn for Grandma Margot 's funeral . |
| 10 | So that black top that sweatshirt top that I 'd got for Lee , it was seventeen ninety nine , you got that for thirteen pounds , forty five erm thirty two pound off . |
| 11 | The note I 'd left for Tremayne , ‘ GONE OUT WITH HARRY , BACK FOR GRUB was still pinned to the corkboard . |
| 12 | I had one of the best nights I 'd had for ages , and slept through the rest of the ebb and the whole of the flood . |
| 13 | When I left school , which was in nineteen thirty , it was a bad time for employment , there was a lot of unemploy unemployed people and I tried and tried and eventually I was offered a job at the Bloxwich Lock and Stamping Company in Bell Lane Alexander works , it was er er Squires 's were , er it 's a family er er concern , and erm it was the first offer I 'd had for employment so I took it . |
| 14 | ‘ I came looking for Brenda Blond . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ In October 1983 , I came to work for Cambridgeshire County Council as an Assistant Solicitor . |
| 16 | After I had written my letter of acceptance to Bedford I began to look for digs nearer the university : I was determined to show some independence . |
| 17 | ‘ I enjoyed singing for Tippett , ’ she said , ‘ even though he was quite a perfectionist . ’ |
| 18 | Froggatt , who has an Irish mother , said : ‘ I decided to play for England after speaking to my father . |
| 19 | It was only as we came in to Maidstone and I started looking for Hospital signs that I began to suffer the nervous Whirling Pits way down in my stomach . |
| 20 | As you can imagine , I talked knitting for hours with her and the other knitters who were kind enough to look after me . |
| 21 | Without the aid of any sort of therapy , and certainly without the sympathy and understanding which should attend it , I managed to opt for life . |
| 22 | Sometimes I went trolling for lythe with rubber eels , or fly fishing for saithe and mackerel in the clear water around the rocks . |
| 23 | I went looking for Mathilda and found her working in the buttery with the other maids . |
| 24 | I went shopping for clothes . ’ |
| 25 | Then I went to look for Anne . |
| 26 | In the morning I went to look for Heathcliff . |
| 27 | I preferred to look for Suzie by myself . ’ |
| 28 | I learned to read for drums first and then to sight sing choral music and then I learned to read music in general . |
| 29 | ‘ If I did wait for Garry to come back into the fold , what would you be doing ? ’ |
| 30 | For at about the same time I was approached by the secretary of Edinburgh 's New Club which as a member of Brooks 's Club in London I was entitled to use on a reciprocal basis , and which I did use for lunch perhaps a dozen times a year . |