Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv prt] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How I got round for the four days of the tournament , I do n't know . |
| 2 | And when I got back for the last few weeks Mortimer had left … ’ |
| 3 | I lined up for the 100 metres at the AAA Championships and , lo and behold , everybody came out in similar outfits ! |
| 4 | Taking my leave , I headed off for the developing tanks at my studio . |
| 5 | ‘ I came on for the final five minutes of that match and got 45 minutes in the second half of the second leg which we won 1–0 . |
| 6 | With the playback that in fact erm as has said it showed me what in fact I was doing right and wrong , erm I 've been on television before once when I was running the London marathon but this time it was actually me and me alone in a work element and I could in fact see what I was doing and why I was doing it and understand in fact the corrections from the morning to in fact the afternoon presentation when I came back for the second one . |
| 7 | He told me , before I first went to England in 1947 , to make sure I came back for the next Australian season so that I would be eligible for selection for the '48 tour . |
| 8 | I went on further , and their lightness and gleam had gone when I looked back for the last time . |
| 9 | I sat up for the next few nights , my head poking out of the back skylight of the loft , my ears straining for the tinkle of glass breaking or muffled curses , or the more usual signal of the birds being disturbed and taking flight , but nothing more happened . |
| 10 | Hunter 's approach inaugurated a wide-ranging debate about ‘ community power structures ’ between elite theorists and pluralists which rumbled on for the next two decades . |
| 11 | One , an innings of 499 : the other , a knock which went on for the little matter of 970 minutes . |
| 12 | ‘ Dejala , ’ they yelled as she rode in for the big swipe and missed it . |
| 13 | Despite the arrival of Pow and Currey ( who filled in for the absent Kolar ) , 'Mere continued to be driven back in the scrums . |
| 14 | When she came in for the second time her throat was like looking at a plate full of strawberries and cream — red enlarged tonsils with a coating of puss . |
| 15 | As a regular attender of Irish League games could I suggest that the 22,000 who turned up for the United v Villa debacle perhaps try the fare served up in the Irish League which I 've no doubt they would find much more exciting ( unless Bangor and Ards are involved ! ) |
| 16 | WIND and rain greeted golfers who turned out for the annual Good Friday match between Tayside Region and Aberdeen District at Forfar Golf Club . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Quickly introducing herself to the sister-in-charge , she looked around for the nearest unattended patient . |
| 20 | She set off for the second floor , but there was no police officer there . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Pipes and cigarettes glowed in the darkness as we settled down for the six-hour passage . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Then we went back for the long-service merit awards . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ Piece of cake , ’ Nails agreed as they lined up for the first time on the pool edge . |
| 28 | They holed up for the next two days in Leatherslade Farm House … at Oakley twenty seven miles away . |
| 29 | There was no happy return to the Hippy days when they teamed up for the Sixties hit I Got You Babe . |
| 30 | 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 . |