Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pron] [verb] for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whenever you run for a train , cope with stress at work , or lose your temper , the heart and lungs have to cope with the extra demands placed on them . |
| 2 | The bubbling song of whimbrel mingled with the excited yelping of breeding redshank could be heard whenever we stopped for a break . |
| 3 | No you see I , see how I go for a minute |
| 4 | How I longed for the ruler to point to me ! |
| 5 | ‘ How I long for a return to wingers , all-out attack — and entertainment . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Oh , I do n't mind , ’ said Ianthe , watching an old woman watering plants on a nearby roof ‘ How I long for a cup of tea ! ’ she went on , coming back into the room . |
| 7 | How she longed for the excitement of blasting away slimy aliens . |
| 8 | Alison Berry describes how she cared for a patient with a difficult leg wound in the community |
| 9 | When it comes to neck shaping and so on , it is best to decrease the stitches back to the original number , by , for example , taking eight stitches back to four stitches if that is how you increased for the cable before shaping . |
| 10 | wait a minute , we 'll leave that in there we 'll let it go out , see how it goes for a couple of months , Glen will know where we can use any money for that anyway for a couple of months |
| 11 | He saw the calculation at the back of Weis 's eyes that greeted his comment — saw how he looked for a trap in every word of his — and smiled inwardly . |
| 12 | It 's just like when someone pays for a park bench — they get a little plaque with their name on it , do n't they ? : - ) |
| 13 | It was when I went for a walk to our old camp . |
| 14 | ‘ The things I 've seen in them vats when I worked for the brewery . ’ |
| 15 | However I know for a fact that is has done much more than just promote real draught ale . |
| 16 | In Los Angeles , where I lectured for a living , I pursued my fascination for the harmonic patterns and golden-mean ratios which run so consistently through the sacred art , music and architecture of both Western and oriental mystical traditions . |
| 17 | ‘ You have n't even asked me directly why I went for a walk with Flo this evening , for instance . |
| 18 | Erm which is why I went for the downstairs cos I had a choice of either . |
| 19 | And I think that there is a very strong argument erm for getting women in the cabinet on the basis that if women are seen to be in the cabinet they are seen as competent , they 're seen as excellent politicians , and that 's why I go for a form of positive discrimination , which is that if you 've got two people who are equally well qualified , and if erm Mr Major decided that a man and a women were equally well qualified , then I think he should have chosen the woman erm |
| 20 | Farrelly met Sinead when she advertised for a band in an Irish music paper . |
| 21 | Jo Durie , Britain 's No. 1 ranked player , delivered an honest assessment of the needs of aspiring young tennis champions when she called for the pressure to be taken off youngsters , particularly those between the crucial ages of 10–14 . |
| 22 | ‘ And that 's presumably when you went for a smoke on the roof ? ’ |
| 23 | well you did n't put your coat on the other day when you went for the paper |
| 24 | In the case of a registered title there 's one occasion , as mentioned above , when you make a land charges search , and that 's when you act for a mortgagee . |
| 25 | Shops in town do n't want to know when you ask for a toilet . |
| 26 | It was the kind of place where you waited for a bus that never came . |
| 27 | You walk on to climb the slopes of Bulkeley Hill from where you head for the village of Bickerton and on the heathland of Bickerton Hill . |
| 28 | She was lifted out of her perch above the engine and made for the customs shed where she asked for a mirror so that she could restore order to her wrecked coiffure before she went into Paris . |
| 29 | Lulu Freston takes her pugs to the House of Commons where she works for an MP . |
| 30 | She 'd been with us for a year when we went for a day 's walk in the country . |