Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [vb past] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | so I managed for a few weeks and then I went to lodge with my sister at Trimley |
| 2 | So I tried for a calming course , feeling thankful to this man for his dogged clasp on difficulties that would n't cause me any recall of my dead love in a million years , and I pursued the wisp of a path suggested by the word ‘ nanny . ’ |
| 3 | So I paid for the electric motor of the engine to be serviced , but it never worked very well . |
| 4 | So we went for a last look round . |
| 5 | So we settled for the International Press Centre … |
| 6 | One of these had married an Indian Christian doctor , and together they worked for the sick and wounded , although badly handicapped by the lack of medicines . |
| 7 | I think in any marriage or in any family the father and the mother both play different parts , and in my own life I can remember things my mother did and things my father did and together it made for a happy home . |
| 8 | Perhaps it made for a safer relationship if , instead of arguing to a standstill , the party who felt herself misunderstood took her grievance elsewhere and satiated it in transgression . |
| 9 | So he settled for a secure telephone call , indifferent to what that would do to Maxim 's reputation among the Defence Staff at the embassy . |
| 10 | Here is what she wrote : Beware the feline of the sea ; lest might happen to you what happened to me ; When once I booked for a short break stay , I found it impossible to get away — Seacat did not turn up to-day . |
| 11 | At 8.30am yesterday they departed for a one hour , speed endurance training session , completed before the temperature began its climb to 30 C. |
| 12 | Yesterday they lost for the second time when they fell 6-7 , 7-6 , 6-3 , 6-4 to Todd Witsken of the United States and Jorge Lozano of Mexico . |
| 13 | Yesterday they lost for the second time when they fell 6-7 , 7-6 , 6-3 , 6-4 to Todd Witsken of the United States and Jorge Lozano of Mexico . |
| 14 | Later still he became for a short time a professor at Cambridge . |
| 15 | Yesterday he smiled for the last time and said he did not wish to obstruct the work of Prime Minister Hans Modrow — who now constitutes , with a small group of associates from Dresden , the only remaining acceptable face of reform within the East German Communist Party . |
| 16 | Last time I went up she asked for a little bell , so she could ring for me . |
| 17 | She had n't missed him at all when he died , but now she realized for the first time that she had lost her father . |
| 18 | A month ago he had come to see her and now she understood for the first time that what he had said to her then would change her life . |
| 19 | He said : ‘ Originally we went for an American-style back-end load or exit charge which was tapered to reduce by a percentage point for each year an investment was held . |
| 20 | There were things he consciously noticed about people which he brought to mind long after he had ceased to watch them , but now he noted for the first time that she had very small feet — they could have belonged to the oriental he had imagined her to be through the sun haze . |
| 21 | Fussily he searched for a safe place , finally leaning the contraption against the wall behind his chair before sitting down . |
| 22 | Well I worked for the past two year really |
| 23 | Here we lived for the next fifteen years , with the eighteenth-century kirk across the road , and from my study window at the front a clear thirty-mile view across the Tweed valley to the distant Cheviots . |
| 24 | True , his critics would rather he settled for an easier life . |
| 25 | So I went back to alight indicator , pulled down only a few inches , which was enough to allow the bream to suck the bait to their lips , and then I paused for a few seconds while I watched the line from the rod-tip tightening in the water . |
| 26 | Erm and then you went for a whole month which was , you could do something in that time . |
| 27 | There she stood for a long time , gazing out to sea , her heart full of sadness and her eyes full of tears . |
| 28 | Now we could n't have him in this year to give the others a chance so this is how you voted for the nineteen ninety three racing personality of the year on Channel Four and let's take it in reverse order starting with the person who finished fourth . |
| 29 | At least we did for the longer |
| 30 | Then they left for the 13-mile drive to their luxurious home at Corston , near Bath . |