Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [verb] [adv prt] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I could ask him and Tim and you , and make my mum go out for the evening . ’ |
| 2 | I told her it 's my wife come down for the day … ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I did n't feel like spending the rest of my life waiting around for the parts David Niven turned down , ’ was how he expressed it . |
| 4 | Many of the cahiers ( the statements of grievances and proposals for their rectification drawn up for the guidance of the States-General when it met in May 1789 ) proposed the building of public monuments to Louis XVI in recognition of his action in calling the States-General and thus restoring the ‘ liberties ’ of his people . |
| 5 | I am much , much more concerned about her voice lasting out for the evening . |
| 6 | It took all her strength to reach out for the receiver and raise it stiffly to her ear . |
| 7 | Her mother goes in for the bingo . |
| 8 | His luck ran out for the French students against their English counterparts when , though captain , he was given his marching orders for , guess what , stamping again . |
| 9 | His flat is modernist and bleak , his clothes are grey , she dresses in red and puts enough flowers in his kitchen to make up for the decimation of the rainforests . |
| 10 | Now he 'd lost that sense of fitting the rubrics which his kin and his province drew up for the proper conduct of a man like himself . |
| 11 | He was ready now , and had his hand held out for the instrument , lightly brushing her fingers accidentally as she passed it to him . |
| 12 | Of course , Preston did not spend all his time looking out for the holes . |
| 13 | ‘ Bully , ’ said Angela , speaking very earnestly to the alsatian , ‘ here 's your chance to make up for the naughty things you 've done to me . |
| 14 | Day Two : At 8.00am breakfast is on the table and your cruiser casts off for the sail to the ancient spa town of Bad Schandau . |