Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pers pn] [verb] for a [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 long for a return to wingers , all-out attack — and entertainment . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | Alison Berry describes how she cared for a patient with a difficult leg wound in the community |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It was when I went for a walk to our old camp . |
| 10 | However I know for a fact that is has done much more than just promote real draught ale . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ You have n't even asked me directly why I went for a walk with Flo this evening , for instance . |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | Farrelly met Sinead when she advertised for a band in an Irish music paper . |
| 15 | ‘ And that 's presumably when you went for a smoke on the roof ? ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Shops in town do n't want to know when you ask for a toilet . |
| 18 | It was the kind of place where you waited for a bus that never came . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | She 'd been with us for a year when we went for a day 's walk in the country . |
| 21 | 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 : |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | CELTIC aim to rewind the tape and produce an action replay at Parkhead tonight when they bid for a place in the third round of a European competition for the first time in nine years . |
| 24 | Is the Fire Officer given every individual case where they apply for a licence over an old people 's home , and er , this sort of thing ? |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 ? |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | But 10 years ago , Gerald Kingsland hit the headlines when he advertised for a woman to live with him on a desert island . |
| 29 | The court was told that Lord Apsley was arrested last November when he arrived for a function at Gloucester Barracks in South Cerney . |
| 30 | There came a day when he arrived for a lecture in army uniform and carrying a rifle . |