Example sentences of "[verb] [subord] [pers pn] [verb] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sky was gun-metal but the deluge had not come when they set out for a cafe . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'll canter him for a bit , then wait till you come up for your turn . ’ |
| 4 | It might be needed if they went out for the day . |
| 5 | ‘ Piece of cake , ’ Nails agreed as they lined up for the first time on the pool edge . |
| 6 | ‘ Dejala , ’ they yelled as she rode in for the big swipe and missed it . |
| 7 | Wind was measured at 11.00 and 15.00 each day , but only counted if it kept up for an hour or more . |
| 8 | This is the moment when we decide whether we go in for a federal Europe or whether we go in for a Europe of member states trading together , competing together , co-operating together . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | When they reached the stairs , his voice determinedly reasonable , he asked , ‘ Do you want to return to Ca ’ del Leone to shower and change before we go out for a meal ? ’ |
| 12 | Taken from her monthly BBC Radio ‘ Woman 's Hour ’ series and culminating as she flies over for the opening night of ‘ 84 Charing Cross Road ’ . |
| 13 | I went on further , and their lightness and gleam had gone when I looked back for the last time . |
| 14 | It was gone when I went back for it . ’ |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | ‘ Loads of women still expect a man to pay when they go out for dinner . |
| 17 | It has the speed , the stamina and the ability to think as it moves in for the kill and needs to out-think a twisting and turning rabbit . |
| 18 | With that , Taff started digging while I searched around for timber to place over the trench . |
| 19 | ‘ Pushing and shoving among that lot , no fear , ’ I said as we struck out for the woods . |
| 20 | He mumbles when I go in for specific points , he puts an accent on , but I think he 's trying to tell me Hess is dead . |
| 21 | He may deflate one of your tyres and attack as you crouch over it , or wait until you leave your car , and then pounce as you feel around for your house keys . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . ’ |