Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I went there for the opening and I 'm really proud to be associated with water because I think it 's I think it 's a wonderful piece of engineering and excellent . |
| 32 | Added to that , there was something about the Wartberg works that I found soothing the first time I went there for the interview . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | 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 . ’ |
| 36 | Korg M1 synthesiser ‘ A good keyboard which I bought mainly for the piano sound . |
| 37 | 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 . ’ |
| 38 | I ate nothing until the day arrived , and all morning I waited impatiently for the coach . |
| 39 | About eighty villagers followed me inside , and waited expectantly … so I struck out for the hinterlands . |
| 40 | I stayed there for the duration to try and prove to myself that I was able to do it . |
| 41 | ‘ 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 . |
| 42 | Yes and and then when the lifeboat came , the Eday and and Sanday and them a lot of them came across for the dances , the lifeboat dances , it was really I would say the best time |
| 43 | The fact that so many of them played together for the Lions will be an important help . ’ |
| 44 | During the first two decades of its existence it was one of many organisations which argued insistently for the creation of National Parks . |
| 45 | Nigel bought a pulley , and the offending object was banished — hoisted skywards , where it hung immobile except when lowered , which became mainly for the amusement of visiting children who nevertheless were informed that any bad behaviour would be punished by hauling them up twenty-five feet into space and leaving them . |
| 46 | 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 ! ’ |
| 47 | 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 ) . |
| 48 | Unions were viewed as monopolistic combinations of labour which catered mainly for the interests of those of their members who were in employment at the expense of the unemployed . |
| 49 | The school was an amiable establishment in Somerset which existed largely for the daughters of service and diplomatic families , whose fees were subsidised by the services to ensure that the scions of the officer class need not be tainted by cheek-by-jowl association with the children of other ranks . |
| 50 | ‘ It was n't the joke , it was the ritual — to get himself psyched up for the performance . ’ |
| 51 | Despite the reservations about the scheme of the BMA , which spoke mainly for the consultant élite of the profession , less prosperous GPS flocked to join the ‘ panels ’ . |
| 52 | This was held in place by a groove in the bottom of the door jamb which projected slightly for the purpose . |
| 53 | a body with branches in various parts of Britain which agitated strongly for the repeal of the Catholic Relief Act of 1778 . |
| 54 | It was normal practice for Rome to establish buffer states on her frontiers in the form of client kingdoms , an arrangement which held only for the lifetime of the chosen ruler . |
| 55 | It was platonic , for Louis was a man who lived only for the cause . |
| 56 | Mrs Chalk was nowhere to be found , so she made straight for the medicine cupboard in the spacious Georgian-style kitchen with its enormous , old-fashioned white-painted cupboards and scrubbed-elm table , and located the painkillers , swallowing the dosage with water before setting about making the tea . |
| 57 | She made up for the difficulty by striking their fingers with a ruler when they erred , especially when learning the piano . |
| 58 | Turning from him , she made quickly for the door . |
| 59 | The Jacobite cause fell and the indecisive Prince with it , but there were those who fought not for the Stuarts , but for their country . |
| 60 | She peered round for the nuns , but they were nowhere to be seen . |