Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv prt] [pos pn] [noun] for " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Well , when I pick up my money for the job , they did n't seem too happy .
2 I hold out my hand for the hat and he gives it to me .
3 Should I cut off his fingers for daring to draw blood from your precious wife ? ’
4 I saved up my overtime for that washer , ’ he said .
5 I went into Diary and I printed out my appointments for next week .
6 D. A. I was on a school-crossing duty for disabled children and I held up my hand for a motor cyclist to stop and he rode right past me .
7 By the 1960s , however , they were being interpreted in a continuous and cumulative manner which drew out their seriousness for the British economy .
8 Christ 's example is not that of helping us across a road , or showing us what good neighbours we must be — but costly , redemptive , self-emptying love ; love which lays down its life for others so that they might be restored to God .
9 The Bristol & West 's Vantage Bond , which locks up your cash for 12 months , pays a fraction more at 11.8 per cent net but needs a minimum opening deposit of £5,000 .
10 Or the actor who stumbles over his words for the second time at a rehearsal .
11 She cut up his dinner for him in a charming , solicitous way .
12 This chapter aims at motivating godly praying in order that leaders will not be sloppy and selfish , but will be shepherds after the heart of Jesus the good shepherd who lays down his life for the sheep .
13 She kept up her calls for two years , while greeting Norma Todd as normal every day in the street .
14 The kindly old chap who gave up his seat for me brought me my pint saying ‘ Drink this mate , you 'll feel better when tha 's supped that . ’
15 For twenty years she saved up her money for the ‘ round trip ’ , and having been round the world , is now full of memories .
16 And she gave up her telly for the lounge .
17 Remember here that some people do not like seeing you write down their words for it interrupts their flow of thought .
18 And she stretched out her hand for me to see it shake .
19 It would be really rather nice , she thought as she picked up her cases for the fiftieth time that day , if they could all stay together , though it was hardly likely .
20 She held up her hands for silence then pointed at Garry , the most honest of the three .
21 She held up her hand for silence .
22 She held out her hand for the Mills bombs .
23 In the dress rehearsal when she held out her finger for the ring he took her pulse .
24 Every Tuesday morning you forgot your thimble , every Tuesday afternoon you held out your palm for the cut of the cane .
25 so we started to look for something and I wanted a bungalow , I did n't want to house again , just the two bedrooms I thought would be nice , so what we did we found this bu er this bungalow in er out of Crewe in Haslington and er we put up our house for sale , it cost seventeen thousand , five hundred and this bungalow we bought seventeen thousand , six hundred and fifty , so all I had to add was one hundred and sixty pounds , to sell the house , but the house needed change all the windows to put all the windows and the doors because they were all rotting in , you know , because the houses built er before the second world war and er what we did we put up the and in three months ' time , it in three months ' time my house went and we were moved , in September we started to sell , in January we 'd been living in the , in the new bungalow and then about three years later they built a row of bungalows on the other side where there should , should of been , they kept the land , it should of been shops , but then they changed their minds , they did , they did n't build the shops , but they built all these bungalows again on the other side , you 've been to my home , yeah , so the road that , over the road these bungalows were about three years later than ours and they were going down for thirty two thousand pound , and I bought mine for seventeen thousand seven sixty at six fifty , yeah
26 I am sure that if we could have met , all estrangement would have vanished instantly ; but , having to rely on the written word ( and that in the cramped space of air-letters which took so long to come and go ) , and missing expression of face and tone of voice , to which we were both very sensitive , we kept up our guard for a time .
27 Finally , we work out our methods for delivering the intervention ( 2 ) .
28 I listened carefully to my hon. Friends , and especially my hon. Friend the Member for Sherwood ( Mr. Stewart ) , when they set out their ideas for extending and expanding the work that I have described in the affected areas .
29 A letter from Mary Evans , possibly written at George Coleridge 's suggestion , begged him to give up his plans for emigration , and addressed him with painful tenderness as ‘ her best-beloved Brother ’ .
30 Observations of predatory fish attacking spiny prey reveal that after one experience of even a non-poisonous species the predators are so shocked by the pain inside their mouths that they go off their food for days .
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