Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [vb past] [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 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 . |
| 4 | She was still wearing the ugly straw that she had put on for morning church . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | You know them that we got to send off for that , I got head bag and you got that ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | And then he got so bad , that he had to go in for . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ? ’ |
| 12 | I get a bit dizzy lying down on the bench , like I 'm falling backwards and I got to sit up for a bit . |
| 13 | And I got told off for it . |
| 14 | By the time I got into position , my lungs were bursting and I had to go up for air again . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | I used them , about 14 a day , for a week and I managed to stay off for about a month . |
| 17 | I had been in Styal for a few months and I kept putting in for an open prison , but they kept saying no . |
| 18 | And I tried to save up for a car cos my son was in the army . |
| 19 | In sharing the Reds ' upset win in that national trial he proved a bit of success as a distributor and made two scorching breaks which hinted at a swashbuckling touch to his nature : ‘ I was very keen to make a good impression in the trial because it took place a week after my ‘ B ’ debut against Ireland and I wanted to make up for two particular errors in that game . |
| 20 | ‘ If I wanted to settle down for a quiet read I 'd prefer the Kensington public library . |
| 21 | The sergeant looked at her closely , obviously wondering if she planned to run off for some reason . |
| 22 | His mother always looked as if she had dressed up for the occasion , which indeed she had . |
| 23 | Had to take him home in a taxi and we had to book out for him . |
| 24 | As soon as we 'd packed all the stuff in the ba van we 'd have the rest of the sandwiches the rest of the coffee or another cup of coffee and then we 'd get on the road and even if we 'd got back for four , by the time we 'd got home and , and had something to eat or if we did n't want nothing to eat , watched the telly for half an hour and get to bed , you 've got from eleven till sort of three or four the next day which is just nice because you 're in your own home |
| 25 | They found they could switch on particular groups of atoms with a pulse of electricity and they stayed switched on for up to two days . |
| 26 | Without exception they were splattered in paint as if they 'd gone in for action art . |
| 27 | I assaulted this position from every angle , ranging from thoughtful analyses of the male mid-life crisis , its nature and origins , to sweeping ad absurdum dismissals in which I demonstrated that by the same token Trish and Brian were equally culpable , because if they 'd gone out for the day I would have stayed at home and we would never have met in the first place . |
| 28 | Their room was in darkness and he had to fumble about for the switch to the bedside lamps . |
| 29 | Not to his face , you understand , and he did make up for it by giving lavishly to the church … ’ |
| 30 | Det Insp Jeff Crowther said : ‘ This incident could have been worse if it had gone on for any length of time . ’ |