Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [verb] [verb] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | At teatime , there was honey , sour-milk scones and plum jam where you had to mind out for the stones . |
| 2 | Collins was the other striking contributor within Scotland 's side , tirelessly continuing at international level where he had left off for his club in Saturday 's Old Firm game and looking unaffected by the demands of a workload which had caused wholesale disruption to the national team elsewhere . |
| 3 | ‘ I am demonstrating that I want to stand up for Hong Kong 's interests . |
| 4 | I figured my body was telling me to rest , so I 've flopped around for the last two weeks eating steaks and drinking beef tea , and getting stronger every day . |
| 5 | I remembered that Charlie had always wanted to know how prices in Chelsea compared with those in Whitechapel , so I decided to find out for him . |
| 6 | She was still wearing the ugly straw that she had put on for morning church . |
| 7 | ‘ Mrs Giraud has asked us to tell you that she had to step out for a short while , but to make yourself at home , ’ the receptionist had informed her . |
| 8 | So then this fellow comes to the phone , obviously his missus had entered it and he did n't have a bloody clue that she 'd gone in for it and he 'd just come home from work and er Annika Rice there , saying oh where is she ? |
| 9 | Can you explain the cultural foundation that you have set up for this loan ? |
| 10 | What 's the next production that you have lined up for ? |
| 11 | Peanuts are perfect badger bribes — just the same type that you buy to put out for the birds . |
| 12 | Erm the third one is we 've got a small amount of money out of , think again it 's out of TEED and , but it 's N Y T E C have got hold of it and it 's to do with further development of the Careers Service Tech Partnership , but it 's only a few thousand , it 's a very small n amount compared , I mean the bid that we 've put in for this Standards and Indicators is more like sort of thirty thousand . |
| 13 | You know them that we got to send off for that , I got head bag and you got that ? |
| 14 | Well it I mean already , it is having quite an im impact erm especially for items like furniture and bedding , and I mean bedding does n't last for ever , especially with a family , and I know erm they 're allowed every so often , but erm I mean I think erm the the cutbacks are becoming more and more and more and and people seem to be which means that we have to look around for voluntary erm agencies that ca such as , who can provide us with furniture or beds and bedding . |
| 15 | Well , we 've done that , as we said we would and of course , in a business such as Pearson , which is a people business er , although we regularly monitor employment statistics , such as total employ total number of employees er , revenue per employee , cost per employee , profit per employee , there are times when we have to take er , difficult decisions and er , so we 've gone in for a lot of redundancy , which we 'll see in , in er during the next slide or two . |
| 16 | If British tennis is to ever rise above the mediocrity that it has wallowed in for decades , then juniors have to be given greater access to courts and coaching . |
| 17 | ‘ What has made it particularly difficult , for manufacturers of all sizes , but most of all for smaller ones , is that it has gone on for a long time . |
| 18 | Thomas 's house , which he could barely keep up , was run mostly on the income from a small chain of modern toy shops that he had built up for his wife over the years . |
| 19 | And then he got so bad , that he had to go in for . |
| 20 | The other side of the roaring boy , the young Hal and poetry-loving bruiser , the devil in bed and pub , was a young man who felt alone in London , knowing that he had to look out for himself and look out sharply . |
| 21 | She come off the phone and she said , bloody hell she said that one of the rare times I go to the trouble of making myself butties for dinner , cos usually she gets a pasty or something , and I get invited out for dinner , you this Viv er , a friend of hers , you know the one that was having trouble with all that drainage underneath the |
| 22 | I sling a few carcasses to prowling cats , and I get told off for it . |
| 23 | So it 's unusual and I get told off for giving you a choice but what do you think ? |
| 24 | Pat : He was six months old and I 'd gone down for his second immunisation and I mean the doctor I went to see was a family doctor — I 've known him since I was a baby — and he just , he was looking at him and he just said , ‘ Is your husband Chinese ? ’ |
| 25 | I get a bit dizzy lying down on the bench , like I 'm falling backwards and I got to sit up for a bit . |
| 26 | And I got told off for it . |
| 27 | erm and I 've sent off for some loose fitting ones |
| 28 | By the time I got into position , my lungs were bursting and I had to go up for air again . |
| 29 | Daisy was about to say ‘ by women ’ , but hastily changed it to ‘ by members of the congregation as I was leaving , and I had to get back for Ethel 's heart . ’ |
| 30 | I used them , about 14 a day , for a week and I managed to stay off for about a month . |