Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [to-vb] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | An obstacle to Buchan 's transfer was that he would lose income from his Sunderland shop , and the deal was delayed for two months while ‘ under-the-counter ’ terms were agreed to compensate him for this loss . |
| 2 | Now , where did you say you were going to take me for that drink ? ’ |
| 3 | And erm they were going to send her for an interview straight away . |
| 4 | The dogs were never collected , so Friends of Rough Collie Rescue ( FRCR ) at Marlow , Buckinghamshire , were asked to take them for rehoming . |
| 5 | They were allowed to see it for one hour , before it was taken back , and none of them has been able to get hold of it since . |
| 6 | Like PEPS everywhere , this was slow to catch on , especially as dealers were forced to sell it for days at a time without getting paid commission for it , so most did n't bother . |
| 7 | The rest of us were left to reproach ourselves for what had happened . |
| 8 | I do n't tell no lie , I was goin' to ask 'im for the loan of a bob so 's I could get to see this bloke that might be puttin' a bit of business in me way . |
| 9 | The document authorizes an unusually large payment , and it has been plausibly conjectured that it was intended to reimburse him for expenses connected with the ‘ impressing ’ of choirboys for the chapel , which had been ordered in 1440 . |
| 10 | ‘ I was phoning to thank you for getting me out of police headquarters . ’ |
| 11 | Neither ailment had been positively identified when she arrived at the Royal and it was decided to transfer her for further investigation . |
| 12 | Cell suspensions were centrifuged at 200 g for 10 minutes and the pellet of cells added to the organ bath the bathing fluid of which was used to resuspend them for transfer . |
| 13 | Epstein concluded that management of stress among the experienced parachutists was not due to their repeated exposure to jumping in the manner of a conditioned response , but was a consequence of an active coping process that on each occasion was used to prepare them for the coming jump . |
| 14 | I was going to say something for John . |
| 15 | Just as well she had such guts really , because no one was going to love her for her feminine self . |
| 16 | The judgment effectively absolved it of criminal and civil liability for causing approximately 3,500 deaths and injuries to thousands , and the final settlement was only a percentage of the orginial sum of $3.5 billion that the government was going to sue them for . |
| 17 | I was going to ask him for money , there 's a business I could buy my way into , an honest one this time , I 've checked it out . |
| 18 | She was going to ask me for money , I thought . |
| 19 | Once when a policeman announced he was going to arrest him for being drunk and disorderly , Minton pointed to his helmet and expostulated , ‘ What ! |
| 20 | He was going to lose her for good and was powerless to stop the inexorable wheel of Fortune from taking her from him . |
| 21 | He found a tutor in London who was going to coach me for University Entrance . |
| 22 | Perhaps he was going to touch me for the air fare home . |
| 23 | Er , what we are interested in is what the estimators have thought we 're going to do for labour and what the estimators thought we were going to , it was going to cost us for plant . |
| 24 | The responsibility was going to haunt him for years to come . |
| 25 | And no nasty dream was going to spoil it for her . |
| 26 | A sudden wave of panic swept over her and she glanced at the others but it did n't seem as if she was going to learn anything for the moment . |
| 27 | No-one could have known that she was going to bring them for the weekend . ’ |
| 28 | Mr Editor Gilbert , on learning that I was going to fly one for Pilot , opined that it was a ‘ bloody awful aeroplane ’ . |
| 29 | Spennymoor impresario John Wray met Angie last summer and was inspired to book her for several tours of the North-East . |
| 30 | When I was pregnant , and we did not have this constantly changing situation of togetherness and separation , my husband complained that I had not noticed him kissing me goodbye in the morning — I was starting to take him for granted after only a few months without going to the mikva ! |