Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [verb] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | how much was n't held until after I 'd gone up for the money for Matthew 's back . |
| 2 | Pat : He was six months old and I 'd gone down for his second immunisation and I mean the doctor I went to see was a family doctor — I 've known him since I was a baby — and he just , he was looking at him and he just said , ‘ Is your husband Chinese ? ’ |
| 3 | They said I had to lie down for two hours because I was going to be groggy , but I thought Fred would be worried . |
| 4 | What a way to return to the city I had lived in for ten too-long years and had left with but a rucksack on my back only a couple of months previously . |
| 5 | So then I had to put in for another grant because he 'd smashed every damn thing . |
| 6 | I had to yell out for him to hang on a minute . ’ |
| 7 | I had to stock up for the holiday break . ’ |
| 8 | And er I got roped into it one year because I had to stop in for something or other that I Course I had n't done but |
| 9 | By the time I got into position , my lungs were bursting and I had to go up for air again . |
| 10 | Born in Cuba to a German-Jewish father and a black mother — ‘ I was sort of kosher , but swinging ’ — he cut sugar-cane in his youth before joining his father , a ship 's steward , on his travels , only to be accidentally left behind on Crete at 12 : ‘ I had to sit down for a minute — almost cried . ’ |
| 11 | Well Romeo was although he wanted to keep the peace , he was a chicken so I had to stick up for him cos I don I do n't like people doing that to my friends . |
| 12 | Daisy was about to say ‘ by women ’ , but hastily changed it to ‘ by members of the congregation as I was leaving , and I had to get back for Ethel 's heart . ’ |
| 13 | This is what I had set out for last week . ’ |
| 14 | I had to make up for the ravages of time . |
| 15 | ‘ However I wanted to race in Ireland and I was frustrated when the Lisburn club came back to me a few days after I had signed up for the French meeting and gave me the full details . |
| 16 | Millie would have been fiddling awkwardly with the thick brush of ginger hair coarser than her father 's , and even redder — that sprang away all round her face , while her cello case , which I had carried back for her , was no doubt propped up against one of the crumbling and gateless brick pillars in front of their house , like a portly little old man too out of breath to speak . |
| 17 | I had to find out for myself . |
| 18 | erm and I 've sent off for some loose fitting ones |
| 19 | In fact , Paul Hogan does n't know what I 've gone through for him . |
| 20 | Aye , because I 've , I 've gone on for weeks with it , you |
| 21 | Now for the that out and I 'll see what I 've written down for this Oh yeah er see Sue lost it erm well it 's a canine meaning , you know , the rose erm the dog rose . |
| 22 | I 've radioed in for the Social Services , they 'll find them some alternative accommodation . |
| 23 | an used to be called metermarism and I say , it 's not a word it 's not a term I 've seen on for many many years and you do n't seen it many erm modern organic texts . |
| 24 | I 've worked in for 30 years and lots of us have worked for over 25 years and we do know that they are bringing in trainees in on higher salaries than ourselves , which obviously is quite upsetting when you 've worked a long time . |
| 25 | I figured my body was telling me to rest , so I 've flopped around for the last two weeks eating steaks and drinking beef tea , and getting stronger every day . |
| 26 | That 's what I 've come round for ! |
| 27 | I said brazenly , ‘ I 've come back for tea , after all . ’ |
| 28 | Yeah that 's what I 've come in for twenty for . |
| 29 | I 've come in for the polish |
| 30 | No I 've come in for physio actually . |