Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] for [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was the old Linfield spirit that carried them through because it was n't a great Linfield team , compared to the sides Trevor and I played for in the 80s . |
| 2 | We were delighted to be on land again , and while the men looked for a river or a lake , I walked for about a kilometre away from the beach . |
| 3 | The one that counted against me most was the Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee , which I worked for in the late Thirties . |
| 4 | But the rulebook provision identifies branch administration officers , which I called for in the motion . |
| 5 | The one I voted for in the original poll ( I think , it seems ages ago now ) was Bremner . |
| 6 | ‘ As long as you do n't ask me who I voted for in the General Election . ’ |
| 7 | Anyway , 'e spoke for about an 'our and at the end of it 'e asked for people to come forward and testify that they were saved . |
| 8 | ( The one you waited for until the end ) . |
| 9 | And it seems that the money , in so far as it emerges in budgets that clearly , is determined by crude political muscle and nothing to do with reason and analysis — all the things that you stood for in the sixties and seventies . |
| 10 | It is noteworthy that more than half did equivalent or higher level courses than those they applied for at the institutions we covered . |
| 11 | Family budgets are seen to be a private settlement of accounts between men and women , men 's unequal distribution of working-class incomes within their households is a right they fought for within the working-class movement and it is not yet susceptible to public political pressure within the movement . |
| 12 | Does my right hon. Friend accept that the majority of my constituents believe that what they voted for in the referendum on Europe was a single market , not a single currency ? |
| 13 | Yes , was it because you think that , they , that 's what they had for in the house |
| 14 | Despite the fact that David was expelled in the third form for dissing the gym teacher who confiscated his Uzi and broke his crack-peddling ring , he still feels enough loyalty to the old alma mater not to drag its name through the mud by engaging the lads he fagged for in a ‘ naughty-word ’ style debate . |
| 15 | This is to prevent the offeror from acquiring more shares than he bid for under the partial offer , and shareholders in the target from receiving more favourable treatment from the offeror by selling in the market during the 12 months following the partial bid . |
| 16 | In Brewster ( 1979 ) 69 Cr App R 375 ( CA ) , an insurance agent was guilty of theft of the premiums because the money had to be handed over to the companies he worked for under the terms of his contract . |
| 17 | CAMERAMAN Sean Colborn got more than he bargained for at a police auction — he bought a do-it-yourself BURGLARY kit . |
| 18 | Ten years ago , if you asked any tennis player what he looked for in a court , you would probably get 10 different answers . |
| 19 | Starting at Chester on Sunday , McGuigan will scuttle through Britain 's forests in his Vauxhall Nova for four days , chasing away the thought that he may lose every penny he battled for in the ring if his appeal against £450,000 libel damages plus legal costs fails . |
| 20 | She was afraid he would ask her about herself and to forestall this she asked him to tell her about his training and what he hoped for in the future . |
| 21 | It lasted for about a fortnight , that , did n't it . |
| 22 | Without wanting to appear too sanguine , and without trivializing the persistent phenomenon of right-wing extremism and the need to maintain vigilance against it , the full realization of the responsibility which Hitler bears for the untold agonies suffered by millions has so discredited everything he stood for in the eyes of sane persons everywhere that , except in circumstances beyond the scope of our realistic imagination , it is difficult to see that there could be a resurrection or a new variant of the once-mighty ‘ Hitler myth ’ , with its power to capture the imagination of millions . |