Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | After one more anxious glance she took off for the other end of the pool and a quick look showed that he was already on his way , moving with powerful strokes and keeping well clear of her . |
| 32 | If you look at the people who went in for the Olympic Games , right up to the Second World War , erm you would call them amateurs . |
| 33 | Quickly introducing herself to the sister-in-charge , she looked around for the nearest unattended patient . |
| 34 | She went home for the first time after twelve weeks … but she 's been in and out of the unit constantly ever since . |
| 35 | She spoke truthfully for the first time and said she had n't any more of it — which was a direct admission that she had had it in the first place . |
| 36 | Memories of the marathon " sew-in " before she left home for the International Youth Congress could not have failed to bring a smile to Eva 's lips , or those of her sisters , if they could have seen her stitching away patiently and efficiently on a hand-driven sewing machine . |
| 37 | She set off for the second floor , but there was no police officer there . |
| 38 | But you , you sat outside for the best part of quarter of an hour , twenty minutes , cos it was so sunny . |
| 39 | On our arrival at the Wildfowl Trust Refuge , we headed straight for the STOP-SPOT board in the foyer . |
| 40 | So we came about for the last time , since we were now south of the entrance , and motorsailed north , a little further off , to give the rock a good clearance . |
| 41 | If he had his way , and we signed up for the social chapter , those extra costs would have to be met out of those pay packets and there 'd be even less for people to take in wages so the honourable gentleman should n't be complaining about low pay when he wants to add to the costs of employment along with the rest of his party . |
| 42 | Pipes and cigarettes glowed in the darkness as we settled down for the six-hour passage . |
| 43 | On every leg they gave us a cheese roll and several cups of coffee , and by the time we took off for the third time we were wearing a rut in the carpet down the aisle to the tail-end gents . |
| 44 | Then we went back for the long-service merit awards . |
| 45 | We did so for the next three years . |
| 46 | This exercise is a refinement of the one carried out for the whole district in that it takes more account of local needs and provides additional information over and above the grades of staff required . |
| 47 | Considering themselves to be superior , they cared little for the ordinary person and looked down on the sinners . |
| 48 | ‘ Piece of cake , ’ Nails agreed as they lined up for the first time on the pool edge . |
| 49 | They holed up for the next two days in Leatherslade Farm House … at Oakley twenty seven miles away . |
| 50 | There was no happy return to the Hippy days when they teamed up for the Sixties hit I Got You Babe . |
| 51 | To all of them , Fry is Barnet , and without him there , few will have good reason to stay at Underhill , particularly as they alleged publicly for the first time yesterday that chairman Stan Flashman had physically threatened them . |
| 52 | They signed up for the same courses and joined the same societies ; they sat together in seminars and went together to the National Film Theatre ; they had sex together and moved together into a one-roomed flat in their second year . |
| 53 | They talked on for the best part of an hour , ending in agreement that there was no solution to this problem , short of the mass emigration of millions . |
| 54 | Suddenly she felt a glowing warmth deep inside ; he could never betray her , could never sell what they had together for the cheap thrill of recounting an old , sordid story . |
| 55 | Members held raffles and donated cash until they had enough for the Olympic bar . |
| 56 | For the married couples the heartache would be centred round their children going off to boarding school , especially when they left home for the first time . |
| 57 | For the whole of the following week they waited daily for the soft , insistent question or the outraged cry that would begin to crack their flimsy structure . |
| 58 | In the end , they held on for the vital points , having gained five in their last three games to ensure safety . |
| 59 | He made straight for the big warhorse , mounted , said something to Will , and started along the street . |
| 60 | Then it headed straight for the nearest suitable planet and effected a landing . |