Example sentences of "'ve [verb] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Creamy crab cocktail was fine , but the smoked fish pie it 's only meat pies we 've given up for Lent was n't so much smoked as immolated . |
| 2 | ‘ He 's not some groovy-looking person we 've picked out for the sake of it . |
| 3 | That 's what I 've come round for ! |
| 4 | I said brazenly , ‘ I 've come back for tea , after all . ’ |
| 5 | Yeah that 's what I 've come in for twenty for . |
| 6 | I 've come in for the polish |
| 7 | No I 've come in for physio actually . |
| 8 | an used to be called metermarism and I say , it 's not a word it 's not a term I 've seen on for many many years and you do n't seen it many erm modern organic texts . |
| 9 | Well let's say we 've made up for it , for you may have no doubt whom to thank for your performance at the court . |
| 10 | Now for the that out and I 'll see what I 've written down for this Oh yeah er see Sue lost it erm well it 's a canine meaning , you know , the rose erm the dog rose . |
| 11 | competition Three of the best We 've gone competition potty this month and any guitar here in the Guitaristoffice which has n't been nailed down we 've got up for grabs . |
| 12 | All through this they 've cried out for a modern definition . |
| 13 | And those are what we 've thought out for British Rail . |
| 14 | Should choke the Manc hordes who 've coughed up for it . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've stuck up for you long enough , ’ she said . |
| 16 | Everything you 've found out for acceleration applies to gravity as well . ’ |
| 17 | But there 's something else — something else they 've known about for a long time but kept to themselves . ’ |
| 18 | One evening , as they worked happily together , feeding and attending to the livestock , George said , ‘ I 'll just take a walk along the beck before we settle down , and check those sheep I 've brought down for lambing . ’ |
| 19 | You 've gone on for years about being the only person in the West Country with the faintest notion how to prune roses . ’ |
| 20 | Aye , because I 've , I 've gone on for weeks with it , you |
| 21 | So out of that stalemate negotiations have begun and they 've gone on for three years . |
| 22 | they had beautiful clothes and they 've gone on for years like that . |
| 23 | In fact , Paul Hogan does n't know what I 've gone through for him . |
| 24 | They 've gone out for a walk to have a cigar but as far we 're concerned they 're not having a cigar . |
| 25 | Yeah , we 've been out we 've gone out for six weeks tomorrow . |
| 26 | These copies are staple check and you are the one which you 've gone back for apply erm I , I 'll with that one . |
| 27 | Do n't tell me you 've gone in for politics . |
| 28 | Well , we 've done that , as we said we would and of course , in a business such as Pearson , which is a people business er , although we regularly monitor employment statistics , such as total employ total number of employees er , revenue per employee , cost per employee , profit per employee , there are times when we have to take er , difficult decisions and er , so we 've gone in for a lot of redundancy , which we 'll see in , in er during the next slide or two . |
| 29 | Due to work by the union , the community is now set to act on repetitive strain injury , something we 've campaigned on for years and in late June the E C's Head of Health and Safety will share a platform with John and Nigel in Brussels to launch G M B's campaign to create working environment funds at E C level to channel money to unions and their health and safety work . |
| 30 | I 've worked in for 30 years and lots of us have worked for over 25 years and we do know that they are bringing in trainees in on higher salaries than ourselves , which obviously is quite upsetting when you 've worked a long time . |