Example sentences of "[pers pn] 've [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've sent for a breakdown lorry-from a garage , so we may be able to salvage the car before it goes right under . ’ |
| 2 | I 've sent for the captain . |
| 3 | I 've sent for the priest . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've volunteered for the Services . ’ |
| 8 | I 've volunteered for the Air Force . |
| 9 | In the meantime , I 've cabled for an X-ray report on the fellow 's chest . |
| 10 | I 've miss I 've missed for the last few weeks . |
| 11 | I 've fallen for a boy who goes to the same school as me , but is two years younger than I am . |
| 12 | I 've asked for a |
| 13 | and er I 've asked for the er extra length one . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've suspected for the last two weeks . |
| 15 | I 've advertised for a replacement , but I have n't filled the job yet . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The guys at ADM Computing suggested at the first meeting that I save a few quid by opting for a Phillips Brilliance monitor instead of the NEC I 've coveted for a year . |
| 19 | It was the funniest sight I 've seen for a long while , but hardly fair on the birds … . |
| 20 | ‘ It was a real old-fashioned adventure and one of the best films I 've seen for a while . ’ |
| 21 | Inner : one of the best inners I 've seen for a long time . |
| 22 | Then he would qualify these certainties at the end , once the client had agreed to buy with something like : " of course , you 'll appreciate that , as with any shares , I can make no absolute guarantees , but this is the best opportunity I 've seen for a while . " |
| 23 | ‘ That was the hardest training I 've done for a year , ’ he said . |
| 24 | That I 've done for the first time in my life something original . |
| 25 | If I manage to work out anything this lunchtime , I 'll enclose it herewith — in the meantime this is all I 've done for the Newsletter so far . |
| 26 | If I ca n't get promotion on the basis of all the hard work I 've done for the organisation over the last five years then I do n't know how I can get it . |
| 27 | Now , generally speaking wi I I I 've act what I 've done for the re-sit paper is that I I pooled a load of questions , some of which went to the first paper and some of which went to the ne and some of which went to the re-sit paper so I do n't know which topics are coming up erm on the re-sit paper . |
| 28 | He 's the nicest man I 've met for a long time . |
| 29 | ‘ So I 've arranged for a whistle-stop tour around the country houses of some influential contacts , and there are one or two long-standing debts and favours due to me that I 'm going to call in over this weekend . ’ |
| 30 | erm I 've arranged for an independent assessor to view this vehicle , and the view of that independent assessor is this is a straightforward claim against the insurance company , and I at the moment am pursuing that , so it 's a little bit of a conflict of interest that one , but that does give you some background on that particular case . |