Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] for the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Gombert 's linear sense — and sometimes Crecquillon 's and Lupi 's was so strong that he cared nothing for the asperities of harsh suspensions or accented passing-notes , as in this passage from his motet , ‘ Ave sanctissima Maria ’ :
2 It was only too apparent , as Olga tore into him about the disgrace she would suffer , that , like a hippie , he cared nothing for the kind of life his parents led ; he did not share their values or ambitions .
3 Tilda cared nothing for the future , and had , as a result , a great capacity for happiness .
4 Well you got me for the day today , cos I ca n't go now until I fetch the car .
5 ‘ But the biggest joke is that Pauline actually recommended me for the part because she liked me so much !
6 When they arrived at Auckland Alexander asked them for the silver and his Presence was such that they did not dare to tell him that they had no silver , so Joan said that it was ‘ in the bank ’ .
7 no I were gon na do , I got them for the days
8 But he dismissed them for the time being , having more important matters to be dealt with .
9 The bishops also argued that any so-called restricted form of divorce was impossible to maintain in practice and that divorce might solve the partners ' problems but only created them for the children .
10 It would appear from investigations that this government in nineteen eighty four did a deal with the E E C to close down shipyards in future years , for which they received millions of pounds from E E C funds , and they never used them for the purposes they were supposed to be used for .
11 And he entered me for the scholarship , , and er , I won .
12 ‘ I have discovered that the black people I have been working with in the inner cities proposed me for the award .
13 A short bubble-ride up to 1850m brought us to L'Altipiano , where we fortified ourselves for the afternoon 's skiing with a lengthy and very enjoyable lunch .
14 In what was seen as a policy of high personal risk , he proposed himself for the post of Prime Minister ( Ivan Silayev having resigned in September — see p. 38416 ) .
15 The child 's parents , and especially his father , were perceived as the obstacle to a realization of his Oedipus wishes ; so his infantile ego fortified itself for the carrying out of the repression by erecting this same obstacle within itself .
16 Mutely he blessed her for the information and , after quickly slaking his appetite , he was drawn — as if he had no will of his own — to the pothouse , where he picked up Joanna , went out with her into the fields , and made love with a sweating savagery which seemed to satisfy even her and delivered him of a madness which had gathered like an abscess .
17 His seat is secure but he is also seeing the man who defeated him for the party leadership on the way to another victory for the Tories .
18 Stoughton was even a friend of Matthew Arnold , who proposed him for the Athenaeum .
19 And Sinatra punished him for the rest of his life .
20 ‘ You think we just built it for the tourists ? ’
21 I liked it so much that I used it for the show and played the hell out of it , it sounded so good .
22 ‘ We had it fitted out in the States , changed it for the case provided by the Pentagon just before take-off last night . ’
23 He did discover a serious oil leak in its engine late last year and immediately changed it for the spare he keeps in what looks like a glass case in his garage .
24 Dirichlet , appalled by this , grabbed the page from Gauss and treasured it for the rest of his life .
25 They have accepted us and used us for the furthering of the Kingdom here in Taquaral .
26 No , well they 've actually done something this time , the accountant 's going to be there , I mean when we went last time they just said we know nothing about running a hall , we bought you here to tell us and charged us for the privilege .
27 Nothing prepared me for the reality of A wing .
28 Have you checked whether their grammar book really prepared them for the complexities of communication ?
29 He said that even though they had been given advance warning of Sam 's health problems during a scan three months before he was born , nothing prepared them for the shock .
30 We prepared ourselves for the experience by drinking half a bottle of brandy each — I was worried about him until then .
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