Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [pron] [verb] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do they go on to buy other stock , or do they sell quickly for a swift profit ? |
| 2 | Will there be people of different ages all doing separate things or do you go in for family activities or both ? |
| 3 | Did he really have all that in the kitchen or had she sent out for it ? |
| 4 | A sedentary existence or a job that keeps you standing around for hours is liable to encourage a poor circulation as well as allowing the buttock and thigh muscles to become weak and flabby , making cellulite much worse . |
| 5 | What is striking about these two books is the sense they convey — little less unusual now than when they were written — of a strong and independent black community , in which people found their own way rather than having it mapped out for them by white expectations . |
| 6 | Nor do they know why for many years , almost to this day , footprints were to be found in a field near to the earthworks of the castle where a famous duel was said to have been fought between two brothers during the Civil War and where no seed would grow . |
| 7 | The child 's own feelings were split between mortification at a christening that doomed him to live out for good a pun that he could already see to be gruesome and pride that his father had cared for him enough to embed him into his act by the very roots of his name . |
| 8 | At 6 he was dispatched to a school at Great Dunham kept by the rector , Richard Ransome , where he remained , enjoying only very brief holidays , until he went to Eton ; nor did he go home for all of his holidays . |
| 9 | If you can , try to do some form of exercise that makes you breathe hard for about ten minutes each day . |
| 10 | He had thought that that would be the last he would hear of her , but a few days later she had sent him her first piece , and he had been so impressed by it that he had printed it and asked her to write more for him . |
| 11 | I rang Seddon at home before he left for New Scotland Yard and asked him to find out for me the names of the officers who had dealt with the Southwark Bridge case . |
| 12 | It was like Ruth , to bring her to a place she hated and loathed , and make her sit here for hours with wet hair . |
| 13 | Elementals often appear as a moving light or a change in temperature , or they may take the form of an animal or bird and make it behave oddly for a period of time . |
| 14 | AN EMPLOYEE stole his boss 's BMW car and sold it to make up for wages he had not been paid , a court heard . |
| 15 | She helps William Ernest with his reading and encourages him to stick up for himself at school . |
| 16 | ‘ you come in ere half pissed once a month , usually around midnight , and expect me to jump around for you , now you 're bringing you mates as well . ’ |
| 17 | few would deny that the CMHTs almost immediately ran into problems due to the squeeze on local authority budgets and found themselves scrabbling around for alternative resources ; |
| 18 | ‘ I think and hope you care enough for me to listen to what I have to say ! ’ he added . |
| 19 | Well we wish you luck obviously Simon in all your efforts this year , we hope to see you at the Oxford Stadium at some stage , and hope it goes well for you . |
| 20 | Type Report on Yugoslav Spitfires by Peter Arnold in the April issue ( p70 ) evoked many memories for me and caused me to rummage around for some half-forgotten photos of nearly half a century ago , and there it was , Mk VcJK808 ‘ B ’ with yours truly in attendance . |
| 21 | Luckily , you can now plonk your curious infants in front of Knowledge Adventure and let them find out for themselves . |
| 22 | Well , maybe I 'll play you some time and let you find out for yourself , eh , Major Karr ? ’ |
| 23 | She said : ‘ Try and persuade him to come home for a special tea . |
| 24 | When we were in port he let me off work and allowed me to go ashore for as long as I wanted : " After all , you 're here to see these places . |
| 25 | After eight years practising and perfecting he sent off for a plan and made his own Appalachian dulcimer — and it was better than the one he was given . |
| 26 | You go to the most wonderful places , you STAND in Soweto outside Nelson Mandela 's little house and watch him come home for the first time in 25 years . |
| 27 | Please allow 14 days for your card and PIN to arrive , and ensure you look out for their arrival if you have shared postal arrangements . |
| 28 | I sat in my pew and heard him prate on for at least an hour and a half . |
| 29 | office place and give him a bag of plaster and tell him to plaster there for a day either that or send him up |
| 30 | Overall , it 's best to leave the photographs out of the electronic side of things altogether and get them reproduced optically for you by your printer . |