Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] for [pron] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The high street stores , and even the designers , are finding there is great value in maintaining , shapes , colours and styles that worked for them in previous seasons .
2 All our buddies that worked for us for 50 years were just living and drinking and eating like fucking Rome … it was just hell and it had to stop . ’
3 So that was the sort of stuff that did for you for a couple of weeks before Christmas .
4 Except that the flame was deep inside , in a place that longed for him in a way she had never felt before .
5 She seemed uncertain of her English , and asked for everything to be repeated .
6 His mother , unable to find the strength to battle against him , wrote to the school and asked for him to be excused .
7 I had a fair idea as to who had done it , and I passed on my suspicions about so-and-so and so-and-so , and asked for something to be done about it .
8 Bright too had misgivings in this area , particularly about size of the single conductor , and asked for it to be enlarged .
9 On 11 July Cross had taken a sample of his own tapwater into the local North Cornwall District Council offices and asked for it to be analysed , but the Council refused .
10 The letter did not say that they would continue to be charged for the service , unless they wrote and asked for it to be stopped .
11 On 28 August 1651 , while Alured was evidently on his deathbed , James Chaloner [ q.v. ] , the Yorkshire MP , reported to the House that Alured was owed £8,769 and asked for it to be paid .
12 He said : ‘ I took it in yesterday and asked for it to be repaired as soon as possible .
13 Gassendi adopted it enthusiastically and argued for it at great length .
14 But Beatriz Lavandera has adopted this approach to syntactic variation in a much more radical form , and argued for it in some detail .
15 ‘ He got away from me and came for me with his fists .
16 They kept their secret identities and paid for it through their Swiss bank accounts .
17 I mean I think it 's , I mean I I have personally asked this question a number of times and pressed for everybody to be paid properly in inverted commas , I E monthly , but this is an assumption about a certain lifestyle and a certain way of budgeting which er I do n't think we have necessarily the right or , you know it 's not necessarily our
18 Placing quality and independence in combination in such questioning , he reflected the problems and pressed for them to be treated with urgency to achieve a ‘ collective resolution ’ .
19 I went and sat in the churchyard and wept for Mrs Mitchell and Nelly and prayed for myself to be forgiven and for them to be looked after .
20 It seems that Antonietta was nearby when I fainted and arranged for me to be taken back to her house .
21 and worked for him for ten years on surveys and designs for many of his works .
22 She flashed the note around , proudly though covertly , and looked for him at the bus stop , but she could not look for him without some misgiving .
23 Adam wondered if Abigail sometimes woke up and looked for him in the dark , in the empty room , and fretted for a while before she began to cry .
24 She had the guts to decide what she wanted and went for it in an open , una-shamed way .
25 ‘ In fact , I did n't even know McCallen had n't started for I just got my head down and went for it from the fall of the flag .
26 Gore apparently did not want his name on the cover of the book and wished for it to be published by the Canadian fascist , Arcand , so that he could not be sued .
27 I too hoped and waited for one until now — but in vain .
28 After she had signed in , Brian Everthorpe directed her to the section of the car park reserved for visitors , and waited for her at the entrance to the Administration Block .
29 I waited and waited for him at the points and eventually met him about three or four o'clock in the morning for the first time .
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