Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb past] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the afternoon we visited the Priory ruins where we prayed for unity and for the Decade of Evangelisation and finished off with a lusty rendition of Faith of our Fathers ! |
| 2 | Their next port of call after their swim was nearby Lefkada where they stopped for lunch . |
| 3 | said to me about Pauline 's kids her three lads , not the baby like the two lads she said , oh she said er they came to play one night , or they came for tea or something and she goes to work at night you know , she said Paul was looking after them and she said , he said you could hear all this banging up and down the stairs , he said , bloody hell he said they were going mad , and I thought that 's what Tom and Hannah do when they come here , I said your two bang up and down like bloody anything I said that 's normal , you know for kids . |
| 4 | Friendship there , or what passed for friendship , never crossed the great divide of political allegiance and in the acrimonious clamour of the staffroom could swiftly deteriorate into gossip , rumours , recriminations and betrayal . |
| 5 | The sound was over and silence was back , or what passed for silence here . |
| 6 | Imagine my amazement when , on my first day in the new set-up , I found that everyone fought for attention by dramatizing every event . |
| 7 | Medical confidentiality you 're you 're just sitting there with bloody a private conversation we that I went for treatment with my doctor , and and the recommendations that she 's given me in , well well what 's the point er what er what 's going on ? |
| 8 | We had a succession of God-awful nannies we could n't afford — Clemence 's books had n't started to sell at that point — but the upshot was that I left for work late , came home early . |
| 9 | She did nothing much about it — Eismark was still just somebody in shipping , not a politician — and it was only when he came onto the Secretariat that she asked for money to do some more work about it . ’ |
| 10 | He gazed at her in silence that she took for acceptance . |
| 11 | She says that she screamed for help — another two minutes and the twins would have died because of all the smoke and flames . |
| 12 | He slammed his body into hers , bending her back , kissing her so hard that she fought for breath . |
| 13 | When she tells us that she left for work , we assume that she has dressed for the outside world . |
| 14 | The author also points out that her subject had almost no sense of humour or capacity for original thought , that she thirsted for power , and that ‘ Righteousness was what Annie earnestly desired for others … she felt no lack of it herself . ’ |
| 15 | See these socks that she bought for Jade |
| 16 | I enclose the completed form that you mentioned for hire of the school classroom for Parish Council meetings . |
| 17 | Bernice did n't know whether to laugh or cry , so she settled for sarcasm . |
| 18 | I woke up the other morning and I thought , once you married for company , and now you marry the company . |
| 19 | For example , we have found that we can make good businesses by selling services that we developed for use in our own company . |
| 20 | I did n't know at that time what the content of the exhibition was because Sarah who organised it all had to write to lots of people and arrange the loans and you know it is fairly recently that we discovered for example the tate would lend , their pictures because its very rare that they do , erm , and , so we thought the next best thing , when I discovered the change of dates would be to have slides of the pictures that Sue was using , but erm oh dear then wonderful that Sue was using a another book and this term allocated and I was n't able to get the slides she picked , it was my fault that they 're not on slide due to the amount of time that we had to do this . |
| 21 | This is particularly true , and actually is what I 'm leading to in this story is that three years later , when Robert Priest hit Esquire two years later , the Rolling Stone look was supplanted by the Esquire look in terms of popular design and imagination , and I remember people said to me ‘ well Roger what are you going to do , your style is out of date ’ and my reaction to this was ‘ well , hold on a second , it 's not my style for one , and number two this is just traditional style , this was never intended to be a trend ’ , and fortunately it 's sort of gone — right now it 's back — so Rolling Stone even picked up the format that , you know , the Morris–Jenson typeface that we did for headline and stuff , and it 's back in there . |
| 22 | Let us try to account for the ( most probable ) different interpretations of bank in the way that we did for car . |
| 23 | A pair of partridges whirred across the road in front of her , and Winnie remembered that Ella had told her that they mated for life . |
| 24 | He recorded that the stone was overturned as a result of his visit , as ‘ … some tinners in the contiguous country , of these gentlemen , believed that they came for treasure ’ . |
| 25 | This patient was sensitive to yeast and reacted to it in very small amounts , so that she produced a positive reaction even with the minute quantities that they used for testing . |
| 26 | Divergent political objectives notwithstanding , the obvious goodwill between Ho and the Americans , the limited but successful training teams that they provided for Vietminh guerrillas , and the obvious sympathy which many Americans — in particular , it seems the OSS — had for the cause of Vietnamese independence , not to mention corresponding doubts of the French title to Vietnam , all of these understandably encouraged the Vietminh in their political objective of the accomplished fact . |
| 27 | When Darwen needed a new agent in 1911 , it was to Salvidge rather than Central Office that they turned for help in finding one . |
| 28 | And so they made for home . |
| 29 | Although he ran for office saying that he saw no need to raise taxes , he put them up by $1.8 billion in 1990 , the biggest increase ever seen in his largely affluent , suburban state . |
| 30 | WG claims that it overpaid for Alkar by almost £2m , and that it subsequently poured £11.2m into the company in an attempt to rescue it . |