Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] [verb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | These were indestructible and to this day I regret ever falling for the slick adverts for trendy green ones . |
| 2 | This may have brought comfort to some but statistically it was as risky as playing Russian roulette , and I laid off smoking for the next seven years . |
| 3 | I lay there waiting for the half-hour to pass ; and the silence of the house was still , that day , much more a silence of peace than one of fear . |
| 4 | And I got up and I was gon na tie her up like but and by gosh I thought I 'd better make for the door again . |
| 5 | I decided not to vote for the first time in 37 years because of the EC . |
| 6 | Still , Mr Dysart went to see what 'e could do , while I went back to phone for the police . |
| 7 | The registration plates said it was only two years old but I stopped believing registration plates about two years before I gave up waiting for the tooth fairy . |
| 8 | I do not speak for the Philippine health movement , rather these are my attempts to understand how both small-scale local initiatives and a national effort can alter the historical process which to date has left the majority of the 60 million Filipino people living in dire poverty in a land of plenty . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm afraid I do not care for the theatre . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I do not go for the peaked caps , epaulettes and dummy holsters , ’ he said . |
| 11 | ‘ And I do n't go for the fancy decorations and general hoo-hah . |
| 12 | I do n't care for the practice of polling because of polling because it is direct descendant of that fraudulent invention sociology . |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't care for the notion that Paul Gray had his head cut off in the Cathedral . |
| 14 | I can do all those nice things in Jan , Feb and March , and not to mention when I get home tearing my garden to pieces , that 's gone to pot , which is as well , because it does n't make it , see , see one thing I find about coming down here , I see the really smarter shops than I would unless I were in Norwich and it makes me realise still after this , I do n't crave for the things in shops . |
| 15 | A Protestant woman , naturally , I do n't speak for the other sort . ’ |
| 16 | " I do n't work for the company any more , " I answered . |
| 17 | I did not stand for the job ’ . |
| 18 | ‘ I did not ask for the job — it was offered to me , ’ Taylor said . |
| 19 | I did not ask for the job , it was offered to me . |
| 20 | ‘ But I did not declare for the Light-Bringer , and I have never done so since . |
| 21 | Thereafter , I did not wait for the reappearance of the symptoms , but treated the tank every five to six weeks . |
| 22 | ‘ I did not apply for the job but after I was asked to a meeting with the chairman , Jimmy Baxter , I was impressed by East Fife 's ambition , ’ said Totten . |
| 23 | ‘ Well , ’ said Hilda , raising her voice slightly , ‘ I did n't go for the pleasure of his company . |
| 24 | " Well , I did n't care for the way you were standing there ringing the bell . |
| 25 | Yeah , I did n't smoke for the first six months and then I finished work and I was at home |
| 26 | I did n't sleep for the first week in prison , I could n't get used to the noise . |
| 27 | where it , she said it was too big for her and er she wanted something smaller , with a swap , well I did n't swap for the reason mine was overlooking the lake , it was in a better position , and er , then she told me the reason she wanted to swap cos er , she said it was too big cos her husband had died , I started to speak to her about when God 's kingdom comes on the earth , these dead ones will come back , these loved ones |
| 28 | I had n't bargained for the next difficulty : ‘ It wo n't work , ’ he commented , ‘ because my son smokes and he 'll take pity on me and give me one when I run out . ’ |
| 29 | I wish I had n't asked for the damned drink now . |
| 30 | I thought we could have lunch in the garden after your inspection — I 've already arranged for the fridge to be restocked — and afterwards , if you do n't fancy going to the beach , we could go out in my boat , or I 'll take you for a tour of North Zealand , through the quaint old villages with their farmhouses and gardens full of hollyhocks and the beech woods . |