Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [adv prt] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Couple of chaps at the school got booted out for that stuff and I never did get round to it . ’ |
| 2 | But the the people I met made up for that . |
| 3 | He 'd sat up for most of the night brooding about it , wondering what her reaction to him would be , finally deciding that he could n't wait until the evening to find out . |
| 4 | She 'd saved up for many months . |
| 5 | If Attlee had carried on for another year , and the economy had turned round , Labour might still be in power . |
| 6 | Lincoln , in turn , came across the mystery in de Sede 's book Le Tresor Maudit ( The Cursed Treasure ) , which he had picked up for some light holiday reading . |
| 7 | Claims for damages against British accountancy firms have proliferated since the 1970s , when the aggressively litigious environment that US accountants had operated in for many years spread to the UK . |
| 8 | As so often on this tour , Rubin Smith and Lamb were the main architects , both playing aggressively after David Smith , flown out to replace the injured Gooch , had hung around for some time to get accustomed to the conditions only to get a bruised thumb in the process . |
| 9 | She had saved up for such a long time and did n't want to carry a load of coins around . |
| 10 | The first person she had opened up for that morning had been the postman at five past eight . |
| 11 | We bought some after we had laid out for most of ours |
| 12 | The silence had stretched out for some time . |
| 13 | And this had gone on for some time and he was down on the shore anyway one night and looking out across the the sea and thinking long for Eday and he met this man . |
| 14 | It had gone on for some time , she could n't say how long . |
| 15 | Det Insp Jeff Crowther said : ‘ This incident could have been worse if it had gone on for any length of time . ’ |
| 16 | Would n't have minded if the driver had gone in for some stronger magic — the old Christianity did n't seem to be having much effect on his driving . |
| 17 | She agreed , but said that before he began work with Brian Harley — after the Safari circuit but before the European Tour began — he had gone off for several days ’ training . |
| 18 | Serving great forces was not what she had signed up for this trip , but somehow it felt right . |
| 19 | The Sealink ship they attempted to board , the Nord Pas de Calais , was the same ferry which Greenpeace protesters in inflatable craft had held up for several hours during an attempt to stop it docking at Dover a few days earlier . |
| 20 | He remained doubled over for several seconds before slowly straightening up and wiping the sweat from his forehead . |