Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [verb] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With this in mind , she had taken Charles with her when she went to see them perform for the first time . |
| 2 | 1985 ) expectation of seeing appropriate training and support being available to all teachers to enable them to cater for the linguistic needs of pupils in a linguistically diverse Britain ( para. 2.17 ) still needs serious consideration . |
| 3 | There were times when Joanna 's somewhat footslogging performance made me long for the thoroughbred feel of Lisa , but I had an affection for Joanna and she had one advantage over Lisa — her small cuddy where I could cook and sleep , and be independent of the land . |
| 4 | We want them improved for the coming year and certainly by the first year of the council tax . |
| 5 | " My little boy has nothing to wear for the cold weather . " |
| 6 | I now realise I looked for the wrong things . |
| 7 | Maxim found himself reaching for the non-existent seatbelt . |
| 8 | By night we suggest you head for the old quarter of Sachsenhausen which is packed with delightful pubs and restaurants . |
| 9 | Would it be worth actually having a , having a sort of a planning meeting , say you know for the first half hour of one of these meetings , the next one say that we have , you know , a wall planner , you know , a chart and |
| 10 | Erm and he is definitely booked you know for the high court and all of that , he 's |
| 11 | One night , waiting in her car outside a pub to which she had followed him , she suddenly found herself crying for the first time . |
| 12 | The ‘ plot ’ has him searching for the lost chord , which is about as banal as you can get , but the contributors look interesting George Harrison , Charlie Rich , Betty Wright , John Sebastian , Rufus Thomas and Billy Swan are among them . |
| 13 | It was an impressive narrative , and impressively narrated ; Clara found her craving for the bizarre and the involved richly satisfied . |
| 14 | Has he applied for the same thing ? |
| 15 | She was surprised to find it rising for the third time , but though it hardened she knew it would take an age to bring it to orgasm . |
| 16 | Indicating the calf , he said , ‘ We 're hoping to keep this one for breeding , so we 've let it suckle for the normal period . |
| 17 | When confronted with a small garden for the first time , its often difficult to know what to do for the best . |
| 18 | Support was evident from small business people whose firms were bankrupt , housewives who found themselves queuing for the basic necessities and civil servants and skilled workers whose salaries had fallen in real terms as a result of the inflation . |
| 19 | I do n't know what to do for the best . |
| 20 | We made the cut , but he was so bad-tempered he would n't speak to me , and sometimes I just did n't know what to do for the best . |
| 21 | She did n't know what to do for the best . |
| 22 | She 'll know what to do for the best . ’ |
| 23 | I found myself listening for the distinct crack , then gazing up at the clear starry sky trying to follow the flight of the shell . |
| 24 | All very contemporary , but I found myself hankering for the crisp definition of the old Frederick Austin arrangement . |
| 25 | ‘ So I found myself heading for the Far East in the Service Corps . ’ |
| 26 | Has anything changed for the single mothers of the eighties ? |
| 27 | ‘ Then let me arrange for the two of you to meet . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ It is that hard , ’ he said ominously , and I thought of John Maggovertski 's sadness for a pretty girl who had whored herself to pay for the white powder . |
| 29 | Harry signed for Palace after Manager Edmund Goodman had seen him play for the amateur side , Kingstonian , in a Surrey Charity Shield Final at The Nest early in the summer of 1921 , when Palace had just won promotion to Division 2 . |
| 30 | I would n't expect it to compete for the funnel-web spider ‘ small but deadly ’ award in the same way that a Mesa Boogie .22 could , but look at the price difference and you 'll appreciate why . |