Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Direktor stopped going home for lunch . |
| 2 | Her dress was one she 'd bought specifically for work in the factory . |
| 3 | The minister Nicholas Breton , for example , noted in 1603 that his parishioners ‘ came to service more for fashion than devotion ’ , while the preacher John Angier of Denton in Lancashire believed that his parishioners came ‘ for no other purpose but to sleep , as if the sabbath were made only to recover that sleep they have lost in the week ’ . |
| 4 | The earliest extant account of this is to be found in the Works and Days of Hesiod ( c.700 BC ) , who sought to account thereby for man 's present condition and , in particular , for his need to work . |
| 5 | It is little wonder , then , that they preferred to look elsewhere for employment . |
| 6 | The skiing developments in Caimgorm 's attracted only 1.5% skiers from overseas and even if the proposal did go ahead for expansion they still could not draw skiers from Europe . |
| 7 | They took turns to walk around inside and sit on the bunks and then George left to go home for tea . |
| 8 | By the time the flotilla had reached a latitude of 50°S , and had stopped again for rest and replenishment , the men were becoming restive once more : their plea now was ) — if the expedition wanted to reach the Spice Islands , why not turn east towards them and pass below the Cape of Good Hope , as usual ? |
| 9 | He would realise she had come here for money . |
| 10 | In the evenings , after Granpa had come home for supper and the old man had gone off to the pub , I soon became bored just sitting around listening to what my sisters had been up to all day ; so I joined the Whitechapel Boys ' Club . |
| 11 | IT WAS all the proof his family needed that the old Leslie Crowther they knew and loved had come home for Christmas . |
| 12 | At Hull a mass meeting had voted unanimously for caution : " for a national strike if necessary , after ports consulted and a conference called to decide " . |
| 13 | On this basis , Lynch and Bliss were to argue , rather as Kandel had done earlier for serotonin in Aplysia , that it was presynaptic plasticity that was important for the initiation of LTP , and the postsynaptic cell was simply doing what it had to as a result of the increase in the strength of the glutamate signal it was receiving . |
| 14 | In early life he was employed by Mr R S Woulfe , a Methodist merchant in household and Mr Donovan was converted and had to leave home for employment in the North of Ireland . |
| 15 | She and Tim both had good jobs locally whilst Stephen worked abroad , and had arrived home for Christmas the night before . |
| 16 | Sarah , 19 , had gone home for Christmas after spending three lonely months at Surrey University . |
| 17 | No one had risked more for tariff reform than he had in 1923 . |
| 18 | He had married once for duty , he told my husband . |
| 19 | The impulsive and irresponsible gesture had the effect of recovering her sense of identity , and now she sat waiting expectantly for Bicycle Thieves to begin . |