Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [pers pn] [vb past] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 29-year-old Scot , a £225,000 summer capture from Millwall , has struggled to find his form on Wearside but all that changed when he came on for the injured Don Goodman after just 12 minutes of Saturday 's game against Barnsley . |
| 2 | In one case , police admitted that they cried out for investigation , but explained that they could not undertake it as they had no men with the expertise needed . |
| 3 | It might be needed if they went out for the day . |
| 4 | ‘ Piece of cake , ’ Nails agreed as they lined up for the first time on the pool edge . |
| 5 | ‘ Dejala , ’ they yelled as she rode in for the big swipe and missed it . |
| 6 | Wind was measured at 11.00 and 15.00 each day , but only counted if it kept up for an hour or more . |
| 7 | And then , after putting the note on his bed for him to read when he came back for his rest and covering it with the undyed hessian bedspread in case their child saw it , she would sit down and try to wring words out of the sleepy little boy at breakfast before he went off to school , and find that she had an empty morning in which to worry about what she had written . |
| 8 | I have to confess that I saved up for a portable television before I saved up for a washing machine , but then my priorities may have been different if I had not had a laundrette opposite the front door . |
| 9 | ‘ Good bye , Granny , I 'll try to be a good girl , ’ I sobbed before I stood back for the undertaker to screw down the lid . |
| 10 | I went on further , and their lightness and gleam had gone when I looked back for the last time . |
| 11 | It was gone when I went back for it . ’ |
| 12 | Sometimes it is through a mysterious inner constraint that he makes his presence felt , as when he guided Paul 's evangelistic direction away from the province of Asia in 16:6,7 and towards the hardships and opposition he realised he would have to face if he went up for that last journey to Jerusalem ( Acts 20:22,23 ) . |
| 13 | I only caught a bit of it but he said that he turned up for training and was surprised to be called in and told about the deal . |
| 14 | ‘ An officer signalled for her to stop but she carried on for a mile and mounted the kerb on one occasion , ’ Tony Malyon , prosecuting , told Pontypool magistrates . |
| 15 | With that , Taff started digging while I searched around for timber to place over the trench . |
| 16 | ‘ Pushing and shoving among that lot , no fear , ’ I said as we struck out for the woods . |
| 17 | Logie and Dujon were steering the game their way when Dujon was bowled as he stepped back for a cover drive , and that was the turning point . |
| 18 | All Cantona would say as he headed off for a quick trip to Paris before preparing for Sunday 's derby clash was : ‘ I enjoyed my debut . ’ |