Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv prt] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Young Mrs M. looked shocked at the thought , so she waited outside , while I sprinted in for a quick glimpse at Bishop Stock 's former domain . |
| 2 | I came over for a short visit when my parents first moved here … ’ |
| 3 | We sailed into a murky , airless dawn veiled by the thin drizzle of a Scotch Mist , and I turned in for a few hours . |
| 4 | I popped in for a short while to the Scottish Gallery in Cork Street , to see the most recent sculptures by Gerald Laing . |
| 5 | I settled in for a relaxed , warm overview on the world high up in the comfy cab . |
| 6 | I looked round for a living man to admire and follow . |
| 7 | I looked round for a split second . |
| 8 | Gunga drove off over the bridge as I looked around for a suitable spot to get some practice in . |
| 9 | I reached over for a large tin on my right , prised the tight lid off with my knife and used a small teaspoon inside to place some of the white mixture from the tin on to a round metal plate in front of the old dog 's skull . |
| 10 | I went up for a closer look . |
| 11 | I have to confess that I saved up for a portable television before I saved up for a washing machine , but then my priorities may have been different if I had not had a laundrette opposite the front door . |
| 12 | Nobody passed by for a long time , and he could just hear the faint music in the distance . |
| 13 | The fiery blast killed everyone on deck instantly , with the single exception of the captain , who lived on for a short time before becoming unconscious and falling overboard . |
| 14 | She checked about for a likely place of shelter . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | After four weeks every group had interviewed four of the original subjects , plus others who came in for a single session , and they had all accumulated a great amount of material . |
| 17 | Sometimes Sheila got away from her family to come with her and she drove down for a few hours as well as now and again in the middle of the week . |
| 18 | She squirmed around for a better view of it . |
| 19 | She reached out for a pale , beautiful robe that seemed to be a continual pour of colour , like a mountain river with the sun shining on it and , as she did so , there was a whisper of sound behind them . |
| 20 | She looked round for a plain grave . |
| 21 | She looked around for a blunt instrument . |
| 22 | There was wild thyme growing up here too , and as she lay back for a few blissful moments ' rest its delicate perfume assailed Robbie 's nostrils — another sensory memory to be stored away , she thought wistfully . |
| 23 | As she warmed up for a short recital in the prison 's dining hall , Evelyn said : ‘ Music is incredible medicine for every human being in some sort of way or another . |
| 24 | She held out for a federal party in the negotiations with the Russians ( 1902 ) to the point where the talks broke down . |
| 25 | I got on before I could change my mind and we bounced around for a few minutes . |
| 26 | We fell out for a little while but I mean , playing loud but I mean upstairs is fine . |
| 27 | We went in for a closer look . |
| 28 | If I did manage to get the rubber disc in now , but then he arrived an hour or two late , and then we went out for a romantic candle-lit dinner , and then we chatted for a while … the spermicide would have decided to cease hostilities at just about the time I needed it to be at its most fierce . |
| 29 | Perhaps only barely by then , until she managed to get something behind her , the reserve , the " something put by for a rainy day " which neither she nor anyone else in her hand-to-mouth world could ever quite hold together . |
| 30 | They were but it , well it was an event , a big event in , in the , among the younger people anyway in Brooks in Willenhall then and er it was really lovely , really lovely I forget if we had to pay to go in , but er we had er we saved up for a good few weeks before , so that we would have some money to spend at the Wakes it was one of the an event of the year then , but erm I used to like Willenhall Wakes and er I used to go dancing a lot well I was allowed to go dancing cos I 've always loved singing and dancing you see and er I was allowed but I had to be home before my father got home , but I was n't always . |