Example sentences of "[vb past] to [pron] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It never occurred to me for a moment that she had planned it all in cold blood . ’ |
| 2 | Let's just tell you what you look like , you came to me for a job you would n't get it . |
| 3 | Some people came to us for a week , some for a month and a few wanted to be taught the essentials of the job in two or three days . |
| 4 | Yeah , the reason that happened was that there was no-one servicing holidays erm and they came to us for an allocation and and we gave it to them . |
| 5 | In the same way , therefore , as they had turned to primitives for finding the opposite of capitalist relations of production , they turned to them for a form of family which was the opposite of the capitalist family . |
| 6 | At this point some other people arrived to catch the train and his attention turned to them for a split second and within that time the sound of the scrunching footsteps disappeared into the night . |
| 7 | you , er , it had happened because I had been , I had had a lot of training and a lot of swindles and thing , I was able to talked to him and I talked to him for an hour and a half er , I was curious for one thing to find out why he was , he , he was breaking into people 's houses , so that the fact that he was doing it for , to , to get money for drugs |
| 8 | Carlos and Francisco chatted to them for a while , but then Carlos had to patrol his area , which to him meant strolling around , able to approach and compliment all the prettiest girls , and subsequently trying to fit them into his tight evening schedule ! |
| 9 | He read to himself for a few minutes while William perused the review section , but his agitation could not long be contained in silence . |
| 10 | A couple of years earlier , when I was having a bad patch and went to him for a reassuring chat , he had told me not to worry about it . |
| 11 | Marcus patted his lap and I went to him for a stroke . |
| 12 | He did so partly in order that those who looked to him for a lead would have no doubts about where he stood . |
| 13 | She looked to him for a lead and he gave it to her . |
| 14 | Hart listened to him for a few minutes , shouted hello to his brothers who were sitting outside and wished the boy luck . |
| 15 | ‘ Comm 's working , ’ she said , and listened to it for a few more moments . |
| 16 | Both men listened to it for a moment , then Duclos stood up restlessly and walked over to his gramophone . |
| 17 | And do n't forget , Joe was with me , and you know how careful he is. lee was at the party and one of the maids told me that she took him out of the party and spoke to him for a few minutes . |
| 18 | " I did n't know him — I only spoke to him for a few minutes , but David Fairfax recognised him . " |
| 19 | And we had to laugh , he said , well can you be ill a bit longer because he , er , he cooked her something to eat and he feeds her and so when I rang up I never got her on th , I never spoke to her for a week ! |
| 20 | Obviously he did n't remember me , for when the College wrote to him for a reference , he replied that he had not heard of me . |
| 21 | And Jeannie , I remember Jeannie well and wrote to her for a while , but she was not much of a correspondent . ’ |