Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] for [art] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last autumn a conference in Toronto brought them together for an update and planning meeting . |
| 2 | He said he 'd put them away for a bit and give them to Oliver when he started smoking again . |
| 3 | You take me away for the weekend and then come back and act as if you 've just met me at a friend 's house for the first time ! |
| 4 | I pay tribute to them tonight for the work that they have undertaken in an attempt to keep us aware of what is happening out there . |
| 5 | Furthermore , when it became clear from the tone of the debate that Georgy Razumovsky , Gorbachev 's favoured candidate to head the key statutes commission ( responsible for finalizing the draft party rules ) , would be defeated , Gorbachev instead put himself forward for the post and was approved by a three-to-one majority . |
| 6 | He had decided to do nothing further for the present and leave it to Berowne to make the first move . |
| 7 | I can not say thank you enough for the effort that has gone on . ’ |
| 8 | You here for an interview or something ? ’ |
| 9 | er I mean it depends I suppose the extent to which there 's any tutorial element but I mean erm whether they have you there for a week or something and teach you some of the practical |
| 10 | Er right I 'll just leave you there for a moment and put that back up there . |
| 11 | Then he 'd have to go off and do something else for a while before he could stomach being with him again . |
| 12 | erm because that 's like a continuous thing erm with with some other stuff , if it 's just like essays or projects due in at the end of this term or beginning of next , you know get , get the light stuff out of the way first erm and try you may find it easier if you , if you , what I used to do was sort of try and , you know , pace it out a little bit and not try and write an essay all at once because I found that very difficult to do but if you just sort of write a paragraph and do , do something else for a bit and you know kind of write another paragraph a bit later on in the day and , and , you know , kind of erm you know work , you know do n't , do n't try and write an essay all in one evening but try and sort of , you know , if you 've managed to spread it out over the course of a few days so that you do n't have to do too much at once I mean it 's difficult to concentrate on one thing |
| 13 | I think it might be an excellent idea if you forgot about everything else for a minute and let me hold you . ’ |
| 14 | She regarded him thoughtfully for a moment or two . |
| 15 | Again he thanked her warmly for the meal and her hospitality , then , when she had gone , went before Shepherd and his son into the other room . |
| 16 | ‘ Oh — do n't tell me , I do n't want to know , ’ Emmie cried passionately , flinging herself down on top of William who suffered her patiently for a moment and then got up , shook himself and moved away . |
| 17 | I went to visit her just for a coffee or something , and she started saying , after a lot of stuttering , that I was having an affair with her husband . |
| 18 | He tilted her face , looking at her deeply for a moment and then letting her go . |
| 19 | He should have been at boarding school , but his mother , who loved him very much , had brought him home for a month or two , because she thought his health was delicate . |
| 20 | She invited him home for a coffee and he set about trying to find out what was wrong with her washing machine . |
| 21 | ‘ Fortunately , the nail had only gone into his chest wall and did not enter his lungs , we shall keep him here for a day or two under observation . ’ |
| 22 | He stared at her steadily for a moment and then nodded . |
| 23 | He looked at her steadily for a moment and then his hard expression softened considerably . |
| 24 | He greeted her , his eyes falling on her again for an instant and then skittering away . |
| 25 | Whenever Doris was n't looking , Charlie would play peek-a-boo with her and she would stare at him stonily for a minute and then turn her head pointedly away . |
| 26 | she said and now I 'm finishing school I still need them sometimes for a meal and then I 'm going out in the W R V S shop , something like that in the chain , |
| 27 | The Chairman of the Select Committee on Energy apologised to me earlier for the fact that he has had to leave the Chamber because he is due to make a speech on clean coal technology elsewhere in London . |
| 28 | Do n't have it just for the thing that 's free inside . |
| 29 | and the last time he said take it away for a week and see if it 's any better , so he took it away and it were no better so he took it down to Paul and somebody from come and had a look at it and said it 's injector problems |
| 30 | Two people replied — a man who offered to take it away for a fiver and Mrs Morrison , who dropped in for a quick look and said she wanted something for her playroom . |