Example sentences of "so [pers pn] [verb] for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | By now it has sold out , so I opt for a gin and tonic , at a price commensurate with a drink at the Ritz . |
2 | To make this even more ridiculous , I decided to select the most unlikely container I could think of , so I opted for a supermarket plastic carrier bag . |
3 | I was awake early , so I went for a swim . |
4 | Not a wink all night did I get , so I went for a breath of air . ’ |
5 | I decided to go for the pills first , but after three months I was still in agony so I went for the laser operation . |
6 | in the endland It was too far to go every day , so I went for the week , came home to the flat at weekends , She had squash , groundnuts , rows of beans on nylon lines She had me for the weeding . |
7 | There now seemed no need even to ask for help ; my needs were known , so I waited for a cure . |
8 | Also I 'd had feedback from the moss chart that children enjoyed scouring the poster for tiny details , so I looked for a solution that would allow as many items as possible to be painted the same size . |
9 | Fortunately we had an alternative target so I asked for a course . |
10 | 11.01am : Pavement feels softer than usual , so I lie for a while before crawling to the ‘ Suck and Syphon ’ , Editor 's favourite pub . |
11 | I tend not to read long interviews with top celebs , as much to avoid discovering that they are dickheads as anything else , so I look for the news , gossip and reviews . |
12 | I ducked so fast I was n't sure whether he 'd seen me or not , but it gave me a prickly feeling just to imagine it , so I scuttled for the door and legged it up the spiral stairway three steps at a time , just in case . |
13 | Yes we had er ships wh we , they call erm these liberty ships come in from America loaded with bombs and when they moved them up there , well they call them down here they call them liberty ships and er the bombs were loaded , so they used to erm put all timber between each layer of bombs and they had proper carpenters who would fix all these and when the dockers went down , they put these bombs out , cos they were n't detonated , the detonators were in the fore end of the ship , right down the lower hull and erm the bombs were loaded into open trucks loaded into , well the dockers they thought it was dangerous , cos we had the Fire Brigade , that 's the fire service down there and standing by with the fire engines and dockers they wanted the , they want a shilling , I think it was a shilling a day extra , well a shilling extra something like that and there they got it the shilling or extra pound , cos us crane drivers we were n't on the same par as them , so we asked for a shilling . |
14 | The usual convention is to choose the reference point at infinity and choose the corresponding potential ( a ) = 0 , so we get for the potential of a point charge |
15 | The ocean of bad weather racing in from the north west did little to cheer me , so we sat for an hour while I gathered strength . |
16 | They have er thirty minutes each , er twenty minutes A at least ten minutes have to be given over to you for questions , so they speak for a maximum of twenty minutes . |
17 | It was too cold and wet for champagne , so they settled for a cup of tea . |
18 | ’ So they romanced for a time , whispering on the edge of sleep , until a noise of footsteps , first a few and then large numbers , came from the road outside . |
19 | Robyn found herself saying , ‘ So he went for a drive to let off some steam and that was the last … ’ |
20 | Newcastle clearly had n't heard of Sunderland , so he asked for the Wearside number . |
21 | The offer coincided with a move to separate the Cheltenham Schools of Architecture and Art , with which he disagreed , so he applied for the post and succeeded despite his now apparent and debilitating illness . |
22 | Miss Polly had a dolly who was sick , sick , so he phoned for the doctor , quick , quick , quick you sing it |
23 | Miss Polly had a dolly who was sick , so he phoned for the doctor be quick , quick |
24 | Miss Polly had a dolly who was sick , sick so he phoned for the doctor to be quick , quick , he phoned for the doctor to be quick |
25 | Miss Polly had a dolly who was sick , sick , sick so he phoned for the doctor to be quick , quick , quick |
26 | I wan na do all of them on me own so he phoned for the doctor to be quick , quick , quick , said Miss Polly put her straight to bed he wrote on a paper for a pill , pill , pill |
27 | He knew we could n't abide his ways , and he was sure one of us was going to take a hack at him , so he begged for the honour of being killed by the enemy instead . ’ |
28 | Well yeah I guess I did he gets confidence and he walks up with this he 's getting cockier by the minute and he 's well proud and he 's got he sees this , his in this bar trying to chat up this woman , he says I need a , I need a did n't he say I need a smoke or something , so he looks for a woman |