Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv prt] for the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I fumble around for the rest of my kit and fall over Shelagh , who is shining a torch gingerly in one of her boots .
2 On the second day , I geared up for the Horseshoe Pass , three miles up followed by a long down to Llangollen .
3 I came down for the fire , for it was cold in my room .
4 With that , I galloped off for the train , and even had time for a drink before it left .
5 I turned up for the interview , amid all these Bond beauties , in my tight black jersey dress on a really hot day , with false nails and false eyelashes sliding down my face , ’ Julie recalls with a smile .
6 Before I set off for the station for the train to Puno , I loaded up with imodium to seal my loose , nervous bowels ; folded my chain and felt its weight in my hand .
7 When Kalchu and I set out for the headman 's house several mornings later it was bitterly cold .
8 When I signed up for the trip I really did n't know just what to expect ; when I got my packet information I wondered how I would stand up to it but I soon found I adjusted very well and even though I had never slept in a tent in a tent in a sleeping bag or had any experience canoeing I did OK .
9 " I think it would be better if I worked through for the rest of today .
10 We had a very impromptu meal which was brought out from somewhere near Bahrain because our landing area was in a small offshore sand strip where the Nos 55 and 84 Squadron aircraft ( also a Valentia from No 70 Squadron , which was our support aircraft ) were all based overnight and I went to sleep in this hot and humid place , The humidity factor at Bahrain was very high indeed , in the 90s , but I went to sleep quite comfortably on a groundsheet having dug a little hole for my not very considerable hips , weighing very little above 9 stone , and I settled down for the night .
11 The next morning he had left us to rejoin his regiment , even before Granpa and I started out for the market .
12 While leaving it to cool , I reached over for the map ; the mug was caught by my sleeve , fell forward with a gurgle , and emptied .
13 I went out for the day , and came back to find the room full of thick smoke from Holmes ' pipe .
14 Amy and I went out for the day .
15 It went on and on until I was nearly frantic , so I went out for the evening several times in one week to release the tension .
16 But then I thought , ‘ I 'll show him , ’ and I went in for the Pub Entertainer of the Year contest .
17 when I went in for the steamer
18 One enterprising young man gathered 60 ration books into his brief-case and persuaded an RCAF pilot , due for a recognizance flight that day , to fly him several hundred miles across the provincial border to Atlin , B.C. At the friendly invitation of those concerned I went along for the ride and helped my energetic friends load five cases of Johnny Walker , which we transported back to Whitehorse well in time for a Saturday night party .
19 I went along for the ride ; Mrs Goreng needed moral support and a straight guy to conduct an emergency dialogue with , if the need arose .
20 In my own defence I can say only that I went along for the ride , as it were , if you 'll forgive the expression , Mr Milton . ’
21 But Molly knew he would say when they got home , ‘ For what I shelled out for the water we might as well have filled the loos up with Chianti . ’
22 Well Miss rang me up about twenty to nine and said could I come in for the day and I said you 've had it for the day though consider the afternoon .
23 If I 've had a big bill , occasionally I 've had to say to my mum ‘ I 've no money left , can I come down for the week ? ’ and I 've had to go down there .
24 Which way shall I turn round for the fringe ?
25 Someone to speak up for the person or their carer as an ‘ advocate ’ .
26 ‘ 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 .
27 When we reach the pit straight again , exceeding 130 mph , Brundle tells me to listen out for the tone of screaming on the front left tyre .
28 I would always try and choose pieces which I thought had a bit of atmosphere and mood , a passion which made up for the lack of presentation ! ’
29 Still , she liked one or two of the collective , Xanthe had put some money in ( actually five hundred pounds , a fair whack ) when Miranda had asked her to , so she felt bound to give the paper some support in kind , and the office was fun — she liked pitching in with headings , sidebars , suggested stories , and pasting up till the small hours , with the help of ciggies and carafe wine ; the sex gossip was the best in town , which made up for the coffee ( though they could afford dope , they could n't rise to real coffee , and had at one time even resorted to the bitter brown syrup Camp , with the turbaned lascar on the label ) .
30 ‘ It was n't the joke , it was the ritual — to get himself psyched up for the performance . ’
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