Example sentences of "i [verb] [vb pp] for " in BNC.
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1 | Life became so stressful that when I was making The Power Game the doctor put me on Mogadon and I became hooked for a while . |
2 | only insure our own league and so it , I mean insured for major contingencies and that |
3 | ‘ I got shot for something I never did , ’ said Jason , who was taken to Middlesbrough General Hospital for treatment . |
4 | I got done for that . |
5 | It was like from head to toe there was these marks on my body where I had bruises , and I got done for police assault — I could n't believe it ! |
6 | I was dead thin and not eating anything and then I got sacked for gross misconduct , y'know , for never going in and that . |
7 | So anyway , before I heard that I 'd got an appointment at the Clinic , I got caught for one burglary and so I told them about the rest , 'cos I wanted to get off it an ’ I knew that was the only way of getting off it and I thought , now I 've been caught , I might as well get meself stuck down for a bit , like , rather than get a big fine which I wouldn'a been able to handle at that time … . |
8 | Then I got arrested for some petty thing , shoplifting . |
9 | I got picked for the washing up detail and with six others swept the kitchen and dining room , drank the dregs from the glasses and bottles and had a conversation with one of the cooks about Beirut . |
10 | I got picked for my maths yesterday . |
11 | I got accused for you ! |
12 | Probably at home , I got bollocksed for having them last night as well . |
13 | I tried to , er , I told I got criticised for slowing down too much , going into a corner on my dr driving test , I told Brown which corner it was , he took me round there three or four times to s today on my lesson , yeah , we 'll keep doing it till you get it right . |
14 | I got nicked for it at Low Newton . |
15 | I got paid for August which was quite clever really cos my date would of been sort of half way through to book my holiday |
16 | Er , I got paid , I got paid for the disabled games last year |
17 | When I say existed for ten years , er I I did make a slight mistake in that for ten years erm the village . |
18 | In fact , I gave her more thinking time than I 'd bargained for as the crush at the bar was worse than when we 'd arrived . |
19 | ‘ I 'd hoped for personal service , ’ said Giles . |
20 | It might not hold all I 'd hoped for , but … ’ |
21 | I 'd hoped for a little money , at the very most , a thousand . |
22 | ‘ I 'd hoped for so much from that class since I was taking it at an American university , but — ’ |
23 | I 'm delighted with the job , it 's the one I 'd hoped for . |
24 | I 'd gone for a walk . |
25 | She looked me up and down and adjusted my tie an inch or so ( I 'd gone for green silk and I now had two ties ) , then said : |
26 | The only time I 've ever frozen in an exam was when I 'd gone for three exams solid without kip , one after the other , and I just brain and the other ones were a real struggle and I had to graft my marks out of solid granite y'know I was chiselling away . |
27 | I 'd applied for Mastermind in three previous years but was unsuccessful and even had an audition in 1989 . ’ |
28 | I 'd flown for the first time , out to Malta in an old , rattling York aircraft , and then on to the Canal one . |
29 | It was the first airedale I 'd seen for years , maybe the first since the two that shadowed my childhood . |
30 | ‘ Until the blunders it was one of the best games I 'd seen for a while . ’ |