Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [verb] for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Down the street opposite , Spring Avenue , and towards the car park , where I head for a silver Ford Granada , so that I can pause and hide a mo , to see how the pursuit is going . |
| 2 | I 've got a list of phone numbers , it seems like fifty , of different people who have been invoked — the doctor , the home help , district nurse , chiropodist , social worker , hospital doctor , Age Concern , the Red Cross , the old people 's home where she went for a break and dozens more , I hardly know who they are . |
| 3 | The second daughter , Katarina ( Tinka ) , also graduated from the College , where she taught for a time . |
| 4 | Dorothy , the eldest , went to the maternal grandparents , where she stayed for a number of years . |
| 5 | where you went for a walk , down , went to the shops |
| 6 | Where you go for a pound . |
| 7 | Or you coming for a ride ? |
| 8 | The rabbit 's breeding chamber is some 4 or 5 feet ( 1.25 – 1.5 metres ) long and the young are born in a nest of hair where they stay for a month . |
| 9 | Shortly afterwards they were outward bound for the Great Barrier Reef where they cruised for a year in search of a dream . |
| 10 | Some older people are keen to live in sheltered accommodation where they hope for a combination of independence and security . |
| 11 | The Chiefs of Staff took the unusual step of going down to the Royal Naval College , Greenwich , in the late spring of 1952 , where they worked for a fortnight on Churchill 's requirement with their principal scientific and technological advisers , free from the day-to-day hubbub of Whitehall . |
| 12 | Allow him or her to rest for a while to ‘ come round ’ in their own time . |
| 13 | I mean either they opt for a family , or they opt for a job . |
| 14 | He was rushed to the intensive care unit at Liverpool 's Alder Hey Hospital where he stayed for a week before being transferred to a rehabilitation ward . |
| 15 | Mr Bolona is equally welcome in financial circles in North America , where he worked for a time as a consultant on Latin American debt . |
| 16 | He dropped the letter on to his desk where it fluttered for a moment , an innocent reminder of the arrangement made in that grey stone house in Ghent . |
| 17 | Her hair was fair , so that I thought for a moment of the other woman I had met recently , Elizabeth Lavenza . |
| 18 | First , I believe that I speak for a number of my hon. Friends when I say that we want the Bill to reach the statute book , come what may , in view of the approaching general election , and I hope that it will be given a fair wind . |
| 19 | It 's also the fact that I know for a fact , I know for a fact that she 's very frightened of his temper when it happens . |
| 20 | He then said that he now had confirmation from the police and that I qualified for a transfer and would receive an offer for Govan ( where my dad is ) within a week . |
| 21 | Realizing what they represented , he added quickly , ‘ Not that I think for a moment that you … though , of course , ’ he floundered ever deeper , ‘ naturally , a man like , you , presentable and so forth , you probably have several … ’ |
| 22 | They 'd have registered the fact that I work for an advertising agency , and marked me accordingly : ‘ I do think essentially he 's a popular artist , do n't you ? ’ |
| 23 | I bought all that I needed for a laboratory , and sent everything to Scotland . |
| 24 | By now it has sold out , so I opt for a gin and tonic , at a price commensurate with a drink at the Ritz . |
| 25 | To make this even more ridiculous , I decided to select the most unlikely container I could think of , so I opted for a supermarket plastic carrier bag . |
| 26 | I was awake early , so I went for a swim . |
| 27 | Not a wink all night did I get , so I went for a breath of air . ’ |
| 28 | There now seemed no need even to ask for help ; my needs were known , so I waited for a cure . |
| 29 | Also I 'd had feedback from the moss chart that children enjoyed scouring the poster for tiny details , so I looked for a solution that would allow as many items as possible to be painted the same size . |
| 30 | Fortunately we had an alternative target so I asked for a course . |