Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [noun sg] [adv] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think I 'm going to lose my virginity again for the jubilee . |
| 2 | and she 's coming over to see my dad just for the day you know . |
| 3 | Some 500 psychologists from all parts of the world meet in Scarborough next month when the British Psychological Society holds its conference there for the first time . |
| 4 | ( He holds his hand out for the dagger . |
| 5 | ‘ You can release all the mental strain that you 've built up when psyching your self up for a marathon , ’ she says . |
| 6 | ‘ I am now told that he 's hawking her story around for a six-figure sum , ’ he writes in the 100,000-circulation journal , which is read mainly by journalists , stock-brokers and media personalities . |
| 7 | Kate is obviously eating her heart out for a colour changer and an intarsia carriage . |
| 8 | I think I 'm gon na try and persuade my Mum to let me bring my camera in for the last day of term , I 'm gon na get a bottle of from the shop that 's on . |
| 9 | He studied her face closely for the effect of this extraordinary proposal . |
| 10 | I put her name down for the local hospice without her permission , because although she defiantly insisted she did n't want anything to do with it , I thought things might change as she deteriorated . |
| 11 | ‘ Now go , woman , before I padlock the door and hold you prisoner here for the rest of the day , as my sensible ancestors would have done ! ’ |
| 12 | You put your guitar down for a second , and just as you turn away there 's a horrible discordant ker-draanngg ! , accompanied , if you 're unlucky , by the even more expensive noise of your headstock suddenly leaving the band to embark on a solo career . |
| 13 | Put your draft aside for a couple of days . |
| 14 | I 've got my appointment through for the hospital , they rang me on Monday . |
| 15 | ‘ Some savers like term shares where they tie their money up for a set period in return for a limited guarantee regarding the interest , ’ says Willis . |
| 16 | Rachel flopped exhausted into the long white sofa and wrote a long letter to Jenny , pouring her heart out for the first time in three weeks , telling her everything that had happened since she left . |
| 17 | He leads his country out for a world-record 36th time and would only continue at the top if the Springboks win . |
| 18 | Open me post now for the first time , oh oh that 's nice oh I can have a update for supply teachers , Wednesday the fifteenth of April , you baby sit for me ? |
| 19 | However it might be a good idea to put my name down for the ‘ Understanding Racism ’ Course . |
| 20 | Kirk finds God in the slightly rubbish STAR TREK V : THE FINAL FRONTIER and Jane Fonda gets her kit off for the evil Duran Duran in groovy pop-art romp BARBARELLA . |
| 21 | The developers have already demonstrated their disregard both for the environment and for planning regulations by commencing landscaping and tree-felling operations before the planning application was approved Both the Durham Wildlife Trust and English Nature have expressed concerns regarding the future of this woodland , but have been ignored . |
| 22 | And I 'm with Lady Chatterley on this one : ‘ Get yer chest out for the girls . ’ |
| 23 | CLIVE BRITTAIN turned User Friendly into a sprinter on Saturday morning to put her spot on for the Arc . |
| 24 | ‘ No , ’ said Philip , coming up to him and holding his hand out for the gun . |
| 25 | WHEN Jonathan Bamford takes his bike out for a run , he 's glad it 's fitted with a windscreen wiper motor . |
| 26 | From time to time he takes his team away for a couple of days to provide a further stimulus . |
| 27 | Simply place your finger over the end of the tube , lower the other end in the tank over the rubbish , and lift your finger off for a second . |
| 28 | I thought you usually get your stuff in for the week ? |
| 29 | We have arrived exactly over the quarter-point from a position slightly south of our line 's origin ( i.e. , from the downwind leg at Gransden ) so must adjust our heading slightly for the next leg to the half-way mark . |
| 30 | I 've been buying your magazine religiously for the last 18 months and would like to thank you for a great read . |