Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [vb pp] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got picked for the washing up detail and with six others swept the kitchen and dining room , drank the dregs from the glasses and bottles and had a conversation with one of the cooks about Beirut . |
| 2 | Er , I got paid , I got paid for the disabled games last year |
| 3 | I 'd flown for the first time , out to Malta in an old , rattling York aircraft , and then on to the Canal one . |
| 4 | The last time I 'd made for the bog he 'd broken my back when he caught me straight between the shoulder blades with a loaf of bread . |
| 5 | A wife I 'd met for the first time filled up |
| 6 | We all sat fairly comfortably and ate the things I 'd bought for the occasion . |
| 7 | He asked me low long I 'd worked for the firm and what my duties were and what Doreen did . |
| 8 | Money was a problem because I 'd spent all the dosh I 'd got for the car , and I needed my grant to pay off the overdraft I 'd built up . |
| 9 | He would then enquire how much I 'd paid for the latest irreparable objects , and if it had been 20p or less he 'd say , with satisfaction , ‘ Well , at least it had a decent plug ’ , and the decent plug would go into the decent plug box . |
| 10 | I had trained for the first time only four days before ! |
| 11 | Fingering the lump , I began to scrape the theoretical barrel-bottom ; I had prayed for the whiff of putrefaction had n't I ? |
| 12 | The fields and clouds were the same as those I had seen for the last half hour . |
| 13 | I had fallen for the oldest James Brown/James Brown joke in the book . |
| 14 | I had felt for the first time a gnawing loneliness , finding echoes of familiar landscapes in the sweep of a glen , the gentle bend of a river . |
| 15 | The pot-bellied tosser told me that the club wished to make a gesture in recognition of all I had done for the ‘ Stiffs ’ during my spell as manager , and after much discussion it was agreed that they could best show their appreciation by raising the price of my season ticket for next year by 25 per cent . |
| 16 | WHEN CHRIS OWEN , Head of Natural History Publications at the Natural History Museum , published a painting of mosses that I had done for the National Museum of Wales , I had no idea that it would lead to a further and more exciting job offer , so a call out of the blue from Chris was a welcome surprise . |
| 17 | He was ‘ astonished ’ by the ‘ excessive enthusiasm ’ I had shown for the Education ! |
| 18 | I 've sent for the captain . |
| 19 | I 've sent for the priest . |
| 20 | I 've sent for the lad from the Upton manor , as I told Radulfus I would , and before Compline he 'll be here , and the truth will surely be out . |
| 21 | Throughout that period I 've canvassed for the Labour Party , I 've campaigned for the Labour Party , I 've argued for the Labour Party and one of the items that made me join the Labour Party and one of the items I got other people to join the Labour Party was that Labour was a mass Party , because it consisted of hundreds of thousands of individual members and it consisted of millions of trade unionists . |
| 22 | I 'm not going to go into any length about the community arts budget , that is one area of service provision that we feel , and I 've said for the last two years , does not provide value for money . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've volunteered for the Services . ’ |
| 24 | I 've volunteered for the Air Force . |
| 25 | I 've miss I 've missed for the last few weeks . |
| 26 | and er I 've asked for the er extra length one . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've suspected for the last two weeks . |
| 28 | ‘ Some people work hard all their lives and still have nothing , ’ I reminded him , thinking of the fifty pounds I 've saved for the gas bill . |
| 29 | Throughout that period I 've canvassed for the Labour Party , I 've campaigned for the Labour Party , I 've argued for the Labour Party and one of the items that made me join the Labour Party and one of the items I got other people to join the Labour Party was that Labour was a mass Party , because it consisted of hundreds of thousands of individual members and it consisted of millions of trade unionists . |
| 30 | That I 've done for the first time in my life something original . |