Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , this morning Beth Christie was brighter than usual ; she planned to shop for the dinner party she was holding later in the week . |
| 2 | The new rules for taxing manufactured interest , payments made to compensate for the loss of interest , where for instance a security is ‘ sold cum interest ’ but acquired by the seller ex interest in order to meet the sale , took effect on 29 June 1992 and apply from 30 June 1992 . |
| 3 | The threshold time is therefore automatically raised or lowered to compensate for the reader being swept too slowly or too quickly . |
| 4 | Others had to put up with less ideal locations , and this led to demand for the feng shui practitioner , whose skill was in improving the landscape by correct siting , ensuring that nothing took place to disturb the flows of energy . |
| 5 | I got picked for the washing up detail and with six others swept the kitchen and dining room , drank the dregs from the glasses and bottles and had a conversation with one of the cooks about Beirut . |
| 6 | Thurso could not afford the £300 needed for the charter in 1876 when , hard on the heels of the Prince and Princess of Wales ' visit to ‘ The Exhibition ’ , the Town Council proposed applying for the honour . |
| 7 | I tried to reach for the phone to ring Howard , but my arm refused to move . |
| 8 | I moved to look for the girl . |
| 9 | Even more amazing , Elsie , who had been getting in touch with her previously repudiated strengths , stopped complaining for the day . |
| 10 | Another rally on Feb. 23 provoked violence against the police as about 10,000 people rallied to call for the return of the Soviet Union as a unified state . |
| 11 | She knelt to pray for the soul of God 's servant Hereward , his wife and all who worshipped there . |
| 12 | He found working for the Maharajah so enjoyable that he refused to accept one penny in payment for his 18 years ' service , although the Maharajah supplied all his material needs . |
| 13 | In any case , all this helped to prepare for the militarist attitude that the party was to take when war came , when it could advocate conscription without any fear of the electoral consequences . |
| 14 | My mother helped to cater for the funeral tea , which were community affairs with everyone helping . |
| 15 | ‘ That he 'd arranged for the bank to cash cheques on his and my signature until all this is settled . ’ |
| 16 | There was full consultation between family heads at each stage of the project and only a handful of families , mostly shop-owners , opted to wait for the Government supply which reached Perteguhan 18 months later . |
| 17 | They 'd gathered for the launch of the Celebrities Cookbook by Richard Wilson , who 's better known as the crusty and cantankerous Victor Meldrew . |
| 18 | But the first thing I 've got to say to you here and now is you 're no more capable of keeping a wife than of keeping a — ’ she seemed to search for the word , then brought out , ‘ rabbit . |
| 19 | Soon after the Second World War , in which he worked with ENSA ( or ‘ Every-Night-Something-Awful ’ , as he called it ) , he came to work for the music publishing firm of R. Smith and Co Ltd and served as editor of British Bandsman ( the brass band world 's leading newspaper since 1887 ) for 15 years . |
| 20 | As with the word ‘ church ’ , the synagogue came to stand for the building as well as the people meeting there . |
| 21 | The one you 'd booked for the summer had apparently dropped out . ’ |
| 22 | The last time I 'd made for the bog he 'd broken my back when he caught me straight between the shoulder blades with a loaf of bread . |
| 23 | Penny says a close friend recently asked her to sum up what she thought she 'd done for the Princess of Wales . |
| 24 | That would have given it around 90% of seats in the lower house and , since the opposition would never accept that prospect , the bill seemed destined for the dustbin . |
| 25 | He reached for one of the sticks he 'd collected for the pheasant trap . |
| 26 | Money was a problem because I 'd spent all the dosh I 'd got for the car , and I needed my grant to pay off the overdraft I 'd built up . |
| 27 | All he 'd got for the mite was a tatty old kite |
| 28 | We all sat fairly comfortably and ate the things I 'd bought for the occasion . |
| 29 | Ever since he had spanked her that night in the bungalow at Moascar garrison , she 'd yearned for the cane . |
| 30 | The blonde braid had fallen over her shoulder , shining honey-gold against the vivid jade of the T-shirt dress she 'd worn for the trip out here . |