Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] for [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This subcontractor has worked for for a number of years . |
| 2 | A compromise on this issue , they wrote , would damage all that the French Republic has stood for since the Revolution . |
| 3 | The Thatcher administration , on the other hand , ‘ do not believe that the community as a whole should continue to pay for all sorts of things that it has paid for in the past … |
| 4 | The more she tried to be that person the more I lost my sense of who I 'd fallen for in the first place . |
| 5 | The Statue of the Etook Ha'chllt he 'd bartered for in a little town called Slew , which was now , regrettably , a blasted spot , its citizens the victims of a purge visited upon them for the crime of a song , written in the dialect of their community , suggesting that the Autarch of Yzordderrex lacked testicles . |
| 6 | In fact , I gave her more thinking time than I 'd bargained for as the crush at the bar was worse than when we 'd arrived . |
| 7 | Kim was learning more than she 'd bargained for from the entries : ‘ I had n't realised that the all-in-one body had been such an immensely influential piece . |
| 8 | Just as the record was going to be released , Dave came round and told us he 'd got another manager for us and it turned out to be Ralph Horton who we 'd auditioned for at The Roebuck Pub in Tottenham Court Road . |
| 9 | The share of world refining accounted for by the majors fell from 51 per cent in 1973 to 38 per cent in 1980 . |
| 10 | It was everything that Burton could have hoped for in the West End at that time . |
| 11 | L l l let's try to explain for for an audience that 's looking at television pictures here and what we 're talking about . |
| 12 | BIG-SPENDERS Leeds handed their long-suffering fans Christmas presents they could n't have bargained for with a seven-try romp against Championship chasers Castleford , writes Ray French . |
| 13 | er We 've got some very disturbed children in Oxfordshire who need all sorts of help , which do n't necessarily get provided for at the moment . |
| 14 | As early as the 1550s the Venetian government had begun sending young men to Constantinople to learn the language : this seems to have continued for about a century but then faded away . |
| 15 | Other strategies to ‘ save ’ money included joining clubs to purchase essentials which they could not afford to pay for in a lump sum , although being aware of the extra costs of the high interest on such purchases ; having slot meters installed to control electricity consumption ; and delaying lighting the fire until later in the day to conserve coal : |
| 16 | This arrangement appears to have lasted for around a century . |
| 17 | It is for this reason that most doctors will not generally accept that couples have a fertility problem until they have been trying to conceive for at the very least a year . |
| 18 | Erm but erm come the time had come for for the fair let's say the the the Spring fair . |
| 19 | ‘ It will greatly assist what we are trying to aim for in the development of the game in all quarters of the county . ’ |
| 20 | Gould also made a considerable name for himself at home , finally attaining the scientific status he had yearned for as an ornithologist , on or off the field . |
| 21 | In February 1855 Moscow 's gentry assembly chose the retired liberal general , A. P. Ermolov ( one-time ruler of the Caucasus ) , to raise the supplementary armed forces which Nicholas had called for at the end of the previous month . |
| 22 | Or , and this was more likely , he found Beth too lovely , too desirable , too much like the women he had longed for as a young man , and never had the fortune to find . |
| 23 | You could also erm , start to recognize the benefit of the rural sector , and one reason why they were discriminating , L D Cs tended to want to ignore that and sort of shun it , because it 's not sort of a glamorous image they were trying to hope for in the urban sector , and , so , if they did help them , say give them units , like the repair men , units to work in , and they put them in really totally crappy accommodation , and up not where you need it , and not where people pass by with their motors and things , they , they 'd put them somewhere up on a hill , overlooking a city , so erm , to encourage the informal sector by erm , sort of on a par with the formal sector because erm , their inter- reacting , inter-relating now , like they 're providing cheap inputs for the formal industries and , and the formal industries are pro providing clientele all for the informal sector , and so it 's all inter-linked and , and it 's there now . |
| 24 | But he felt as well something far greater — the sudden joy of life that he had pleaded for as the old eagle 's right , and in pleading for it then had begun at last to claim it as his own . |
| 25 | The virtual destruction of the Liberal Party almost completed the political pattern which he had hoped for since the previous autumn . |
| 26 | The Soviets obtained what they had hoped for since the war : an agreement that European borders should be changed only by peaceful means , which in effect recognised the post-war settlement in Eastern Europe . |
| 27 | Bollards as we 've asked for across the frontage as well , and the back . |
| 28 | A large sculpture , primitive in nature and in texture , African she thought , although she had not cared to ask him , fearing he might expand rather more than she had bargained for on the origins of what she suspected to be a goddess of fertility . |
| 29 | This is less than best but it 's better than nothing , that 's the point and it is very nearly what we have argued for from the very beginning . |
| 30 | The terror of leaving the tot you have cared for round the clock in the hands of a virtual stranger can be more daunting than the birth itself . |