Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adv] [adv] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other is that he heard me following , and staged the attack on himself , with the help of some accomplice unknown — for it could n't have been done alone , could it ? — to put himself in the clear , and immobilise me long enough for the other person to get away , and the body to be well downstream . |
| 2 | ‘ So you want me in just for the plaster and to give your student laddies additional geriatric experience ? |
| 3 | Jackie phoned me up to say , she phoned me up today for a chat , we were chatting away and she said erm , I heard Brenda , Brenda , so I knew it was girl , and er , I was saying she walked straight into the kitchen and I was sort of still on the phone , I was saying yeah , yeah , ok and erm , I said I 'm going out shopping and I 'm taking the dog with me , I said ok fair enough , she said well you 'll probably be gone when I get back , I said oh might be but she said but I do n't know and erm you know and I just put the phone down cos she wanted to see the pictures , my little girl asked put all the pictures up for him and er were looking at all the pictures and I 'd forgotten about Jack on the phone you know , so she s all of a sudden I got back she said oh your phone call she said who you talking too ? |
| 4 | During a break while attending a board meeting , I have looked beyond the faces and the smoke , and seen some idea that has carried me far away for a few moments . |
| 5 | For instance , there 's a 19th century telegraph relay station , where human operators function like modern amplifiers — they receive a weak signal and tap it out again for the next leg of the journey . |
| 6 | ‘ Have n't seen him around here for a while . |
| 7 | We have n't seen her around here for a while . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Just sit you down again for a minute , lassie . |
| 9 | Jean and Martin Currie would like to thank you very much for the clothes , blankets and chocolates you have donated recently — these have been distributed through the Glasgow City Mission . |
| 10 | Mr Mason has asked me to thank you very much for the invitation to attend the announcement of the name of the winning architect chosen to design the new Museum on 13th August . |
| 11 | It will see me all right for the day . |
| 12 | On the other hand , order out of chaos and the rebirth of a defeated nation were admirable reasons for being attracted to Fascism , yet they were n't the real ones in her case , and even if Hitler had mesmerised her very conclusively for a time , she was older and wiser now and able to revise her view of a man who could change his principles so casually in the light of expediency . |
| 13 | Once you 've mapped in the shape , leave it soft , or wet the brush , dip it back into the powder and run it over again for a more liquid line . |
| 14 | And when I read it on there for a free gift I thought ooh if I do it myself I 'll get a free gift . |
| 15 | ‘ Oh , really ? ’ says Freddie , bending his lips upwards on one side of his face into a suggestion of general benevolence , but moving them only sparingly for the purpose of articulation . |
| 16 | The Bootle Times wanted us to put them up again for a photograph , and they were left until the next day because it was raining . ’ |
| 17 | forty five and then I 'll have the money to give you straight away for a |
| 18 | Another will want to do it again anyway for the effect . |
| 19 | Inflatables do not need great pressure to keep them hard enough for the sea . |
| 20 | And after Cardinal Red carried him to a two and a half length win over Gaelstrom in the Belle Epoque Sefton Novices Hurdle , de Haan said : ‘ That has set me up perfectly for the National . |
| 21 | ‘ Look , did you call me up here for a particular reason ? |
| 22 | I 'll just try it on just for a se , for a second if you do n't mind . |
| 23 | Try cutting it out altogether for a while , or at least giving it up during the week and reducing your weekend consumption . |
| 24 | Wriggle your toes , then alternately curl them up tight for a count of five and stretch them out to another five count . |
| 25 | As I understand it Chair , what you 're saying is , that there are , at three there is a , a request for an exclusion of press photographers , but the convenience of press photography we 're saying that instead of taking immediately so that we 'd have to call them back here for the even later , we 're asking you for it to be taken at the end with the rest of exclusion |
| 26 | Rachel 's heart skipped a beat at her first sight of him and if she had been trying to delude herself that David had asked her along purely for the sake of her new friends she was forced to dismiss it as his gaze met hers . |
| 27 | ‘ He 'll drag her round everywhere for a time , ’ said Beuno , ‘ and then he 'll get sick of her , or find some other girl who takes his fancy . |
| 28 | Switch it off now for a few minutes . |
| 29 | Early this year I secluded myself up here for a life of quiet , concentrated study and meditation , rediscovering myself in the vastness and solitude of the mountains . |
| 30 | ‘ It did our heads in a bit , freaked us out just for the fact that everybody who 's ever met us in the business knows exactly how we are . |