Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pron] [vb past] for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bubbling song of whimbrel mingled with the excited yelping of breeding redshank could be heard whenever we stopped for a break . |
| 2 | How I longed for the ruler to point to me ! |
| 3 | How she longed for the excitement of blasting away slimy aliens . |
| 4 | Alison Berry describes how she cared for a patient with a difficult leg wound in the community |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It was when I went for a walk to our old camp . |
| 8 | ‘ The things I 've seen in them vats when I worked for the brewery . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ You have n't even asked me directly why I went for a walk with Flo this evening , for instance . |
| 11 | Erm which is why I went for the downstairs cos I had a choice of either . |
| 12 | Farrelly met Sinead when she advertised for a band in an Irish music paper . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ And that 's presumably when you went for a smoke on the roof ? ’ |
| 15 | well you did n't put your coat on the other day when you went for the paper |
| 16 | It was the kind of place where you waited for a bus that never came . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | She 'd been with us for a year when we went for a day 's walk in the country . |
| 19 | The closest I ever got to you was when we went for a spin on your motor bike , with me like a ravished flapper on the pillion , legitimately clinging to your lissom waist , to those two wonderful hip-bones I loved to hold , as if they were the very hinges of heaven , whose wind blew your hair back into my ecstatic face : |
| 20 | NINE former staff at the old Williams & Glyn 's Bradford Branch were soon talking about ‘ the good old days ’ when they met for a reunion in one of the city 's wine bars . |
| 21 | George and Myra 's home is in Kilbarchan from where they left for a week 's honeymoon enjoying candle lit cruises and the splendours of Amsterdam . |
| 22 | For those who reached the New World , a special station was built at the Castle Garden immigrant centre in New York where they entrained for the West . |
| 23 | Politicians with a burgh interest regularly made contributions to the cost of public works in the communities with which they concerned themselves , as Lord Panmure did in 1761 , when he subscribed for the construction of a new town hall in Montrose . |
| 24 | Mr Morris , whose own house suffered relatively little damage , said he realised the potential danger early on Thursday evening when he asked for the river to be kept clear of debris before the level grew too high . |
| 25 | Well he he 'd got a , and if I 'd got to do it you know , another day , his er perhaps start and er i , well you know when he came for a meal and saw all that ? |
| 26 | Sometimes , when he went for a walk , she followed him ; if he stopped to look at something she stopped too and when he walked fast , she walked fast to keep up with him . |
| 27 | But 10 years ago , Gerald Kingsland hit the headlines when he advertised for a woman to live with him on a desert island . |
| 28 | The court was told that Lord Apsley was arrested last November when he arrived for a function at Gloucester Barracks in South Cerney . |
| 29 | There came a day when he arrived for a lecture in army uniform and carrying a rifle . |
| 30 | He made these astonishing remarks when he called for a meeting with the Toronto Globe and Mail , much to the surprise of everyone . |