Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [verb] [adv prt] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | how much was n't held until after I 'd gone up for the money for Matthew 's back . |
| 2 | I had to stock up for the holiday break . ’ |
| 3 | I had to make up for the ravages of time . |
| 4 | ‘ However I wanted to race in Ireland and I was frustrated when the Lisburn club came back to me a few days after I had signed up for the French meeting and gave me the full details . |
| 5 | I 've radioed in for the Social Services , they 'll find them some alternative accommodation . |
| 6 | I figured my body was telling me to rest , so I 've flopped around for the last two weeks eating steaks and drinking beef tea , and getting stronger every day . |
| 7 | I 've come in for the polish |
| 8 | ‘ And if I have to pay up for the Mercedes at £1 a week for the rest of my life then that 's what I will do . ’ |
| 9 | And that is how I have got along for the last sixty six years . |
| 10 | ‘ You want to watch out for the lorries . |
| 11 | Even though she tried to listen out for the sound of a returning car , the castle and the road leading up to it remained as silent as the grave . |
| 12 | She offered to come down for the weekend to help , and Carolyn wanted her badly enough to hesitate before putting her off . |
| 13 | At the first sign of the emotional see-saw that life so often presents , you go scurrying off for the goodies that give you comfort . |
| 14 | His mother always looked as if she had dressed up for the occasion , which indeed she had . |
| 15 | You would not have supposed it possible to aid the Communist cause by stripping , yet Gypsy Rose Lee was banned because years before she had spoken up for the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League . |
| 16 | Henrietta , tall for her age and spectacularly thin , stood by them in the bikini she had put on for the sunshine and the wand , hovering round the crowd , finally pointed at her . |
| 17 | At teatime , there was honey , sour-milk scones and plum jam where you had to mind out for the stones . |
| 18 | Peanuts are perfect badger bribes — just the same type that you buy to put out for the birds . |
| 19 | ‘ You have to go out for the kids , you have to go to the schools and sign autographs . |
| 20 | when you have to watch out for the differences |
| 21 | Fighting the Empire you have to look out for the Helblaster volley gun . |
| 22 | We hold special events every month , with an Indian day next month , and whenever possible we like to dress up for the occasion . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ He 's not some groovy-looking person we 've picked out for the sake of it . |
| 24 | We 've put in for the club entry and we 're just waiting to hear , you know , if we 've been lucky or not . |
| 25 | ‘ I have n't actually met Frank yet ; he was appointed after we had broken up for the summer , ’ said Black . |
| 26 | We had booked up for the ordinary ship and , and rail you know , to go over by ship and rail but er during the months awaiting the , I think we were going in July and er we had booked up maybe about April , but they had put these planes on and Polytechnic wrote to us and said , if we paid two pounds ten extra , we could go by air and we did it and the full tour for a week in Paris , going by air , was twelve pounds ten . |
| 27 | We have stood up for the values our country has always represented . |
| 28 | I assaulted this position from every angle , ranging from thoughtful analyses of the male mid-life crisis , its nature and origins , to sweeping ad absurdum dismissals in which I demonstrated that by the same token Trish and Brian were equally culpable , because if they 'd gone out for the day I would have stayed at home and we would never have met in the first place . |
| 29 | Started as they meant to go on for the holiday . |
| 30 | I I do n't know whether M A F F would object , but they did lay down for the selection of their site . |