Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [verb] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd arranged to meet for dinner , but it seemed he had n't been able to wait . |
| 2 | I 'd got nicked for burglary and , so , the only way to get out of it was by trying the hospital . |
| 3 | Do you know , on the first night , Malcolm Harris did n't know about the cuts we 'd had to make for time . |
| 4 | Originally I 'd hoped to apply for Scale 2 posts … but there are very few jobs , now . |
| 5 | He admitted going equipped for theft , another burglary and asked for four similar offences to be taken into consideration . |
| 6 | However , they demanded the creation of a national union of students and vowed to continue to fight for democracy . |
| 7 | ECOMOG appealed for emergency food and medical aid to alleviate the suffering of civilians in and around Monrovia , and claimed to have registered for evacuation 7,000 people , mainly from Nigeria , Ghana and Guinea . |
| 8 | Below it stood the childhood doll 's house she had intended to renovate for posterity and the guitar whose broken strings had halted her on the path to world fame as a singer of gypsy ballads , in a costume of scarlet and yellow sewn with little mirrors . |
| 9 | Mr Bouverie was a solicitor , Peter said , but he had wanted to be a priest , had intended to try for ordination if cancer had not prevented it . |
| 10 | Her faithful shadow , a Yorkshire terrier called Heathcliffe , was just as confused ; and the time that we had arranged to meet for lunch was fast approaching . |
| 11 | Clearly I had arrived between downpours of the searing acid rain , while none of the local wildlife had come looking for snack in my vicinity . |
| 12 | Sam said , ‘ Morning , ’ but Camille glanced at him haughtily and looked away : she considered that she had no time for the working classes , although her mother 's best friend had been brought up here in the olden days before the supermarkets and the middle class had come to compete for space . |
| 13 | She 'd even been on the local TV news for it and it had done wonders for business . |
| 14 | ‘ Work ? ’ he said , raising his eyebrows and looking at her as though she had said drilling for oil or prospecting for gold . |
| 15 | This had been one of the 150 organizations that had written asking for patronage when Diana became engaged , and had been turned down . |
| 16 | He had decided to opt for medicine rather than the stage , and had felt virtuous , mildly sacrificial , a little self-important while making this choice . |
| 17 | The first question in each of the opening interviews was why the practice had decided to apply for fundholding status . |
| 18 | This conjecture was reinforced when , on May 28 , the North Korean Foreign Ministry issued a terse statement which announced that the government had decided to apply for membership of the UN . |
| 19 | Daalny had acted , after all ; she must have taken the second key during Vespers , from the nail where at noon she had watched the porter hang the first one , but she had had to wait for near-darkness before using it . |
| 20 | First he had had to apply for permission ( not easy to get ) from the Nature Conservancy Council . |
| 21 | All you had to do to qualify for torture , persecution and death was to be a female who dared step out of line with patriarchal society . |
| 22 | Director Mike Cairns said having to pay for community care may mean some older people are deterred from asking for help . |
| 23 | Roche was beaten a length on Desert Team , who had set sail for home through the testing ground but was collared by the John Oxxtrained Sinissipi . |
| 24 | Lennox-Boyd had been in the post for five years and had asked to retire for family business reasons . |
| 25 | After Precious Link had led turning for home in the Peter Cazalet Memorial to score by six lengths from Super Express , Simon Earle , rider of the runner-up , complained that his mount had got unbalanced and made a mistake at the second last because Precious Link had taken his ground . |
| 26 | He had gone to look for wood . |
| 27 | They remained obstinately silent , abject looking as well , the camouflage they had learned to use for safekeeping . |
| 28 | The passion she had tried to feel for feminism was not enough , it did not give her enough strength to stand up for herself against the demands of these two women who wanted her , needed her and demanded her . |
| 29 | She had vowed to fight for Roman 's love , but how could she when he only wanted her for a stopgap while Dana was away ? |
| 30 | Fewer than fifty had survived to ask for quarter , and fewer still had received it . |