Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [conj] [verb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Look how he blooded Speed and Batty … he did nt chuck them in and hope for the best . |
| 2 | It might be easier if we all presented a resume of ourselves rather than waited for the questions ! |
| 3 | For centuries civilised man thought poetry was the pinnacle he must reach for — ’ He caught himself suddenly and smiled for the first time Blanche had known him to , the embarrassed smile of a passionate devotee who suddenly discovers that everyone around him , whom he thought entranced by his obsession , was in fact sniggering behind his back . |
| 4 | The Doctor hauled himself up and reached for the tank 's hyper reverse facility . |
| 5 | Only then did he zip himself up and reach for the telephone . |
| 6 | Alec picked himself up and raced for the door . |
| 7 | Do not forget that you live alone and there may not be anyone there to pick you up or ring for the doctor if you break a leg or a hip . |
| 8 | But Coun Dot Long , committee chairman , said they wanted to get something up and running for the club before the start of the bowls season in May . |
| 9 | She rolled onto a knee , then pushed herself upright and reached for the bottle of Sancerre in one complete , if clumsy , movement . |
| 10 | His front leg was paralysed from an old road accident , our vet guessed the owners had abandoned her rather than pay for the amputation . |
| 11 | Maybe he 'd already unearthed what was left , and it was too late just to warn him off and hope for the best . |
| 12 | I spoke to him afterwards and apologized for the crowd , as if it was my fault ! |
| 13 | With evident delight Mona smiled about her brightly and made for the door . |
| 14 | Ellis 's sense of the quiet solidarity between women , and of the bonds of love that bind the generations together , is so sure that it more than compensates for the novel 's occasional listlessness . |
| 15 | But now that the resort is quieter and cleaner , it more than compensates for the lack of clothes bargains . |
| 16 | Owen watched it carefully and waited for the arm to tire again . |
| 17 | Not guilty , did n't do it that 's why what gorilla man did sickened me ; no blood well hardly any blood literally a drop , a drip , a fucking pixel on the screen and the only thing slicing into flesh was a needle , tiny and delicate not a chainsaw or an axe or a knife or anything , but it 's that image that idea that old devil meme , I keep dreaming about it , keep having nightmares about it , and I 'm the trapped one , I 'm the man in the leather-and-chrome chair and he 's there with his gorilla face and his squeaky baby voice , explaining to the camera that what he has in this bottle and in this syringe is sperm ; the crazy fucker 's loaded it up with jism man looks like half a fucking milk bottle of the stuff and he 's going to inject it into the little guy 's veins and he ties something round the naked upper arm of the little guy strapped to the chair and pulls it tight and waits for the vein to show while the little guy howls and screams like a child and tries to shake the chair to bits or rip it apart but he 's too well strapped in there no purchase no leverage and then the man in the gorilla mask just does it ; sinks the needle into the little guy 's skin with a bit of blood and empties the whole syringe into him . |