Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] for [adj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DESPAIRING factory owner Michael Whitehead looked back on 18 years of ‘ bloody hard work ’ last night and said : ‘ I 've got nothing for all my graft . ’ |
| 2 | The Royal Horticultural Society Encyclopedia of Gardening ( Dorling Kindersley , 1992 , £29.95 , 0 86318 979 2 ) , a companion volume to the quarter-million-selling Encyclopedia of Plants and Flowers , tries to be comprehensive for gardening techniques ; I have used it for all my practical enquiries for the last three months and it has let me down only once . |
| 3 | And the new stars , often college graduates who have never set foot on a farm in their lives , have played it for all they are worth . |
| 4 | The Romanians had played it for all it was worth . |
| 5 | Because no told me , because like I 've known her for all my life . |
| 6 | My freedom thus consists in my moving about within the narrow frame that I have assigned myself for each one of my undertakings . |