Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv] [verb] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even when I arrived back at Thornfield , I did not go in for a while . |
| 2 | I did not cry out for assistance , |
| 3 | ‘ I did n't dress up for him ! ’ she exclaimed . |
| 4 | I said I was n't cuttin' no-one 's throat , I did n't go in for it . |
| 5 | ‘ The only reason I did n't sign up for the navy was because I could n't swim , ’ Tommy grumbled . |
| 6 | Well that , that 's why I think I went down so hard when I did n't get that job cos she said , I , I took , I took the erm , I went , I was the first , to go , first of all I did n't put in for this job it 's one that 's been laying around since last September , I wrote to , kept to St. Mary 's for this mental health thing and I got in touch with this Mrs and she said I 've got nothing I can offer you at the moment but I , I will be in touch and I went down the job centre one day and erm , there was this thing to say that they wanted mental nurses |
| 7 | amazed I actually did erm what happened erm I was happened to be upstairs and my wife shouted quick quick there 's a zither , so I zoomed down here and the lady was still talking to you and a dialled well consequently I did n't get through for quite some time but I did eventually , erm your lady on the reception said well it 's gone now she said but I will give the lady 's telephone number and I spoke to the lady and told her the position and she says well if it 's not collected by so time I 'll g ring you back and I said well I 've been after one for a long long time she said well I ca n't understand it cos I 've been advertising it . |
| 8 | I went straight over and I did n't get up for about ten minutes . |
| 9 | I did n't stick around for the session . |
| 10 | He give me them , I took them for three days , right , I did n't come down for a fortnight and Russell 'll tell you that , I was high as a kite . |
| 11 | And when I took those I did n't come down for a , and that frightened me , I said to Russell I will never ever take speed because it 's if , I was er we were in the pub right on a Sunday morning and I was there but I was n't there , I was somewhere else . |
| 12 | Should have been seven — but I did n't turn up for three . ’ |
| 13 | What would everyone back at the cafe have thought when , for the first time in eight months , I had n't shown up for work ? |
| 14 | During this ceaseless pursuit of the right métier for my particular brand of foolishness , I had already pitched up for a Telethon trailer to flamenco dance for the cause . |
| 15 | After an evening of pleasure and profit with my friends in Bank Street , I had clearly gone out for a drink or two . |
| 16 | It felt fragile at first , but it was as if I had finally come up for air after nearly drowning in a pool of lies . |
| 17 | I was unable to pay more than the $100,000 I had just forked out for his British rights , so he sold Leslie Waddington a batch too . |
| 18 | It would n't be much good telling them I had just popped out for a breath of air this street led to both the bus and railway stations and it would n't need a genius to rumble my little game . |
| 19 | But I had neither stumped up for a bale of fluffy bathroom towels , nor chipped in to the Qantas ticket . |
| 20 | After all , I had only come back for a day or two to buy some good German clothes . |
| 21 | Hence the first floor is a sort of piano nobile , a recent and foreign innovation which did not catch on for very long in smaller English country houses . |
| 22 | The theatre of La Scala was completed by 1778 by Giuseppe Piermarini following the decision by City Governor Ferdinand Hapsburg not to rebuild the theatre in the Palazzo Reale which had just burned down for the third time . |
| 23 | Germany 's Seizinger , narrow leader in the battle for the World Cup overall title , fell on the second leg of a giant slalom in Are , Sweden as she tried desperately to make up for lost time . |
| 24 | And while she 's on the job , she 'd better look round for a well-born filly for Timothy to marry . |
| 25 | Irina , who did not dress up for Ludens , was wearing a simple faded old dress , frail with much washing , the sleeves rolled up well above her elbows . |
| 26 | Take the Singles ' Society , which seemed to exist solely so that its smartly dressed president could chat up pretty girls ; or the Alice Society : ‘ You did n't sign up for that did you , ’ said one newcomer to his friend as they left . |
| 27 | If you did n't watch out for the traffic |
| 28 | You did n't turn up for a meeting two weeks ago . ’ |
| 29 | I was caught and summoned to the Latin master , who said to me , ’ Walker , you did n't turn up for the Latin exam . ’ |
| 30 | so I thought you were going to cos you did n't come back for a long time . |