Example sentences of "[pers pn] sign [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I signed up for the trip I really did n't know just what to expect ; when I got my packet information I wondered how I would stand up to it but I soon found I adjusted very well and even though I had never slept in a tent in a tent in a sleeping bag or had any experience canoeing I did OK . |
| 2 | ‘ Nothing happened and as I like to race every weekend I signed up for a meeting in France on June 13 ’ , he said . |
| 3 | The following day I signed up for an accountancy course as an ‘ extra option ’ . |
| 4 | BEFORE I sign off until September , here 's a timely story about Mr Major 's caring Britain . |
| 5 | In one , she signs off with : ‘ Take care . |
| 6 | She signed up with her local college for a typing course , and later she taught herself Braille . |
| 7 | She signed up for two employment agencies : Solve Your Problems and Knightsbridge Nannies , and worked as a waitress at private parties and as a charlady . |
| 8 | He told us that , at the time was unemployed , and within a few days he even gave the date and place where she signed on for unemployment benefit . |
| 9 | Is that what you signed up for ? |
| 10 | You signed up for tennis lessons ( out comes the shorty tennis skirt , a volley of wolf-whistles from the labourers outside , and off to the courts where the horrid male instructor drills you as if you 're in the Green Berets ) . |
| 11 | ‘ And so you signed on with International Models ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ When you were a gunner — as I was — you signed on as a merchant deckhand because if your ship put into neutral port and you went ashore as a gunner , you could be interned . |
| 13 | ‘ I expect you signed in as a voluntary patient ; then they 're covered , Evans said . |
| 14 | When you sign up for a savings scheme check the clauses for giving notice . |
| 15 | So you sign up with one of the many armed and mobile security patrols that operate in the white suburbs . |
| 16 | If lots of them signed up at a creditors ' meeting in London on May 27th , that could be decided quickly . |
| 17 | She wanted a child , so we signed up for the eugenics lottery . |
| 18 | If he had his way , and we signed up for the social chapter , those extra costs would have to be met out of those pay packets and there 'd be even less for people to take in wages so the honourable gentleman should n't be complaining about low pay when he wants to add to the costs of employment along with the rest of his party . |
| 19 | ‘ We signed up for treatment with him when Aisling was about three and made ten trips to Geneva . |
| 20 | Yes , we can look forward to that application , for under the provisions agreed in the treaty , if we and our European partners fail to implement directives that we sign up to , we shall be subjected to substantial fines by the European Court of Justice . |
| 21 | On March 26th in Asuncion , the Paraguayan capital , they signed up for a four-nation Southern Cone Common Market by the end of 1994 . |
| 22 | They signed up for the same courses and joined the same societies ; they sat together in seminars and went together to the National Film Theatre ; they had sex together and moved together into a one-roomed flat in their second year . |
| 23 | It was fractionally too late when they signed off with three victories . |
| 24 | We 'll let them know the date we 're going to start , and offer incentives if they sign up before that deadline . |
| 25 | He practically had me signed up for the European Monetary System when all I wanted was to touch him for a gold moidore . |
| 26 | He denied UI would be doing this to appease SunSoft and others reportedly unhappy about the situation , and refuted suggestions that SunSoft wants UI 's commitment to use other suppliers and non-USL technologies as a pre-requisite for it signing off on the ABI effort . |
| 27 | On his arrival in England in 1969 , he signed on at the Jim Russell school and raced in Formula Ford , passing from there to F3 , winning the championship , and moving on in 1970 to F2 for Lotus . |
| 28 | Whatever his personal misgivings , Valenzuela hid them well and when his compulsory military service ended he signed on for a permanent career in the Air Force . |
| 29 | Interestingly , he remained in sport , becoming the first black professional footballer when he signed on as goalkeeper for Preston North End . |
| 30 | He signed on as a steward , having acquired some skill in cooking . |