Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [vb pp] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | only insure our own league and so it , I mean insured for major contingencies and that |
| 2 | I got done for that . |
| 3 | I was dead thin and not eating anything and then I got sacked for gross misconduct , y'know , for never going in and that . |
| 4 | So anyway , before I heard that I 'd got an appointment at the Clinic , I got caught for one burglary and so I told them about the rest , 'cos I wanted to get off it an ’ I knew that was the only way of getting off it and I thought , now I 've been caught , I might as well get meself stuck down for a bit , like , rather than get a big fine which I wouldn'a been able to handle at that time … . |
| 5 | Then I got arrested for some petty thing , shoplifting . |
| 6 | When I say existed for ten years , er I I did make a slight mistake in that for ten years erm the village . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'd hoped for personal service , ’ said Giles . |
| 8 | The only time I 've ever frozen in an exam was when I 'd gone for three exams solid without kip , one after the other , and I just brain and the other ones were a real struggle and I had to graft my marks out of solid granite y'know I was chiselling away . |
| 9 | She looked me up and down and adjusted my tie an inch or so ( I 'd gone for green silk and I now had two ties ) , then said : |
| 10 | But erm after I 'd choked for half an hour she went to sleep I eventually went back to sleep again and |
| 11 | I might have felt a little downcast at that point , only the evening had made me feel more encouraged about my prospects with her than I 'd felt for some time . |
| 12 | If I 'd paused for more thought I perhaps would n't have had the nerve , but I simply opened his door , checked up and down the corridor for observers ( none ) and went inside , shutting myself in . |
| 13 | Adopted just five weeks ago ‘ I 'd tried for other seats but had n't got anywhere ’ he has been staying in Northallerton with Jim Stafford , the cheery and down to earth constituency agent . |
| 14 | I wear them most of the time , otherwise I 'd arrested for indecent exposure |
| 15 | They are at any rate central and have I believe served for various committees of inquiry , etcetera , before . |
| 16 | Nietzsche wrote : " When I heard of the fires in Paris , I felt annihilated for some days and was overwhelmed by fears and doubts ; the whole academic ( wissenschaftlich ) , philosophical , artistic world seemed an absurdity , if a single day could wipe out the most glorious works of art , even whole periods of art ; I clung with earnest conviction to the metaphysical value of art , which can not exist for the sake of poor human beings , but has higher missions to fulfil . " |
| 17 | Wharton said : ‘ It is something that I must overcome , I had trained for 12 rounds and was thinking of the crowd instead of doing the job I was in the ring to do . ’ |
| 18 | After I had queued for forty-five minutes some returns returned and we were in . |
| 19 | Nobody knew how to run the longer events , the advice we were given being the same as that I had pontificated for 80 metres back at the White City : start slowly and build up ! |
| 20 | I had fished for half an hour when I felt the line tighten . |
| 21 | Although she had never shown even the remotest sign of lameness I was looking at the worst case of hip dysplasia I had seen for some time . |
| 22 | Although Iceland had changed some years before to driving on the right , the bus which was well past its sell-by date — was right-hand drive ; the first bit of England I had seen for three weeks . |
| 23 | It was mid-morning when we set out nervously along the coast road on the first two-wheeled motor I had ridden for 20 years . |
| 24 | I had hoped for better from Premier and Div 1 paddlers . |
| 25 | I had hoped for better than this . |
| 26 | I had hoped for thirty on the paved road to bump up the average before the open desert at Adrar . |
| 27 | The army had said we would average fifteen , but I had hoped for eighteen and had told them so . |
| 28 | I had hoped for some characteristic entry in his unflaggingly ironic Dictionnaire des idées reçues ; but it jumps pointedly from cognac to coitus . |
| 29 | Following your excellent exposé of our ambiguous one , and Danny Baker 's candid assessment of the Boy In The Bubble , I had hoped for more than the arselicking articles printed . |
| 30 | ‘ I had hoped for more , I must confess , Rain . |