Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [pers pn] [vb past] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I missed several classes because they put me up in , for instance I , when I came up from the infants to the big school I missed the first standard and they put me into standard two and I went from two , three , four , five , six , seven and seven and I was only eleven , you see , so I did pretty well and then the Headmaster came to my parents and said , why do n't you let her go in for a scholarship to Stowmarket Secondary and so I went in for that and er there was one other girl went as well , there were two of us and erm , and of course we only heard during the summer break and er we passed . |
| 2 | And so it went on for the first 14 years of their friendship . |
| 3 | The Factor named a price , Antinou countered and so it went on for quite a while . |
| 4 | And so it went on for a few more minutes and then Anna returned , bearing a red packet labelled " Marlboro " . |
| 5 | Coleridge introduced his friends to the steep woodland track leading from Porlock Weir to Culbone , and together they walked on for four miles beneath the trees , before emerging close to Broomstreet Farm and Yenworthy . |
| 6 | Moreover , the whole process was self-perpetuating ; the guest became the host in an act of social revenge and thus it went on for ever . |
| 7 | ‘ She leads him a right dance , ’ the nans would say , during their daily exchange of news and analysis in the queue at the butcher 's , until finally she danced off for good and all and left him with his mother and his clapped-out BSA and his jars of Brylcreem and his collection of 78 records and a lifetime 's cumulation of unarticulated resentments . |
| 8 | And like I went down for that one Monday . |
| 9 | If I did manage to get the rubber disc in now , but then he arrived an hour or two late , and then we went out for a romantic candle-lit dinner , and then we chatted for a while … the spermicide would have decided to cease hostilities at just about the time I needed it to be at its most fierce . |
| 10 | And then they sent back for the you know the , the ones that had been there before . |
| 11 | The cloth for their suits was cord ( corduroy ) , as I 've told you ; but sometimes they went in for a suit of heavy tweed — staple tweed it was called ; and at that time they made it as hard as a board . |