Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [vb past] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | British Airways staff are fantastic , whatever class you travel , and plied Kenneth with enough booze to soften the effect of two Sun journalists who approached us for a story and picture after we 'd been airborne for about eight hours . |
| 2 | On their return to the hotel , the three were caught climbing a security fence by armed guards who mistook them for Scotland fans . |
| 3 | I think it 's important to understand that all my work is about demystification — both of the self and of the medical and family discourses which defined me for much of my life . |
| 4 | She told magistrates that she had been into town and was late getting the car back home to her parents who needed it for an important appointment . |
| 5 | Search consultants joining companies who hired them for search : |
| 6 | in the endland It was too far to go every day , so I went for the week , came home to the flat at weekends , She had squash , groundnuts , rows of beans on nylon lines She had me for the weeding . |
| 7 | These words were probably written after the capture and tonsuring of the king in 731 by unnamed opponents who kept him for a while in a monastic centre , somewhere presumably in Northumbria . |
| 8 | Personally , I would go further : employers who took it for granted that this was exactly what they were doing should not be open to fresh claims from the DSS . |
| 9 | There were many shrewd operators who backed him for last season 's Grand National and they will be doing so again . |
| 10 | Therefore , it 's rather ironic that one of the clubs who pipped them for promotion to Division I , West of Scotland , reckon the very reason they are going up is down to their New Zealand lock , Gordon McPherson . |
| 11 | He wanted me to handle all the money side and do the bills but some weeks I had nothing for food , nothing for bills , nothing for the children . |
| 12 | Fortunately my mother was able to return to teaching and to complete the final two or three years which qualified her for a pension of her own . |
| 13 | I used one of your tapes you brought me for Christmas yesterday , very nice ! |
| 14 | Caroline found herself seated at the lunch-table next to Romano de Sciorto , a state of affairs which did nothing for her shaky morale . |
| 15 | Founded by David Blechner and Jack Schumann in 1973 , the firm started out as a computer bureau , hiring time on its computers to customers who used them for their own jobs . |
| 16 | As she hauled me up the stairs I braced myself for ‘ What the blazes , Bina ? |
| 17 | The early feminists make more of an impression on us than the overwhelming mass of their contemporary sisters who took it for granted that their place in society would be one of legal and social inequality to men . |
| 18 | Did you do anything with the erm names we gave you for nil absence ? |
| 19 | And at the end of the day hardly anyone remembers the programmes they did it for . ’ |
| 20 | Many times they asked me for them by title . |
| 21 | And the teachers who selected her for the post make it very clear that it was Emily 's ability not her sex that made her first choice . |
| 22 | He says he 's now firm friends with the doctors who prepared him for freedom . |
| 23 | This was not an opinion , simply the Catholic moral teaching , he said at the funeral of Henry Babbington , shot dead on Wednesday by IRA men who mistook him for a loyalist terrorist . |
| 24 | Kenneth Jackson 's crooning struck a wrong note with police who arrested him for allegedly disturbing the peace . |
| 25 | Railway employees , or ‘ Nepo-idols ’ as they were called , queued for hours for scarce tickets for the Nepmen who tipped them for their service . |
| 26 | If Mr Bush vetoes the measure , he risks losing abortion-rights voters who supported him for other reasons , and if he changes his firm anti-abortion stance he runs the potentially greater risk of losing his hard-core right-wing support . |
| 27 | Shadow Chancellor Gordon Brown slammed the ‘ arrogant complacency ’ of Ministers who did nothing for homeowners , the unemployed or small businesses . |
| 28 | On Saturday mornings she took them for riding lessons , waited and took them back , while Norm went out to play golf . |
| 29 | Because Boo had not been seen for so long by Maycomb , he was turned into a scapegoat by the adults who blamed him for any thing and every thing that went wrong , and the children thought of him as a terrible monster with blood dripping from his mouth who ate squirrels . |
| 30 | The obvious best measure of a machines performance is how well it performs the tasks you bought it for . |