Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ At least , let me stay here for a few days . |
| 2 | It 's easier for you to experiment to see how it works than for me to go in for a detailed but boring explanation . |
| 3 | It was they who inspired me to struggle incessantly for a better world . |
| 4 | But this is the room eventually we 're going to use I mean not for a long time yet , as a working medieval kitchen . |
| 5 | I argued passionately for a top higher band . |
| 6 | Young Mrs M. looked shocked at the thought , so she waited outside , while I sprinted in for a quick glimpse at Bishop Stock 's former domain . |
| 7 | And when I come here and I lived here for a few year and then really saw what it was like , I thought , God , never again . |
| 8 | Here houses looked to me like Monopoly chips : seeing a man cycling over the pathless tundra I scanned hopelessly for a possible point of reference he might have . |
| 9 | I lay there for a long time unhappy and hardly noticing the daily noises of the block assembling round me . |
| 10 | I lay there for a long time thinking about that , the loud insistence of the Mexican music from across the way drumming in my ears and gradually merging into the crashing ice of layering floes as my mind drifted into a fantasy of trekking with Iris Sunderby towards the dim outline of an icicle-festooned ghost of a ship , the man at the helm towering like a giant question mark over my jet-lagged brain . |
| 11 | And , miraculously , there was little resistance and I stared in disbelief as the great organ disappeared gloriously and wonderfully from sight I was right behind it with my arm , probing frantically away up to the shoulder as I rotated my wrist again and again till both uterine cornua were fully involuted Ben I was certain beyond doubt that everything was back in place I lay there for a few moments , my arm still deep inside the sow , my forehead resting on the floor . |
| 12 | I sit there for a second thinking , No , it ca n't be … |
| 13 | How I got round for the four days of the tournament , I do n't know . |
| 14 | And when I got back for the last few weeks Mortimer had left … ’ |
| 15 | I lined up for the 100 metres at the AAA Championships and , lo and behold , everybody came out in similar outfits ! |
| 16 | ‘ I warm up for the down strokes by doing fast alternate picking … ’ |
| 17 | Taking my leave , I headed off for the developing tanks at my studio . |
| 18 | ‘ I came on for the final five minutes of that match and got 45 minutes in the second half of the second leg which we won 1–0 . |
| 19 | I came over for a short visit when my parents first moved here … ’ |
| 20 | With the playback that in fact erm as has said it showed me what in fact I was doing right and wrong , erm I 've been on television before once when I was running the London marathon but this time it was actually me and me alone in a work element and I could in fact see what I was doing and why I was doing it and understand in fact the corrections from the morning to in fact the afternoon presentation when I came back for the second one . |
| 21 | He told me , before I first went to England in 1947 , to make sure I came back for the next Australian season so that I would be eligible for selection for the '48 tour . |
| 22 | And another good old word is the crome , now er that was one I came across for the first time when I came into Suffolk , the crome . |
| 23 | Well , I came home for the 1986 Turnberry Open expecting to caddie for Mac O'Grady but that did n't materialize , so Nick and I joined up in July 1986 . |
| 24 | ‘ I put in for a supplementary allocation only last week , ’ he said . |
| 25 | I remember he laughed and I noticed properly for the first time what a lovely blue his eyes were and a little thrill went through me . |
| 26 | Sometimes I drop out for the first verse of songs and let Keith do rhythm and then I come back in for the second verse ; it brings the level of intensity right up . |
| 27 | We sailed into a murky , airless dawn veiled by the thin drizzle of a Scotch Mist , and I turned in for a few hours . |
| 28 | Anyway , being in the fortunate position to be able to drive along the road to Corrour , although my car suspension did n't agree it was so fortunate , a companion and I set off for the first peak , Beinn Eibhinn from halfway along the road , above the river Ghuilbinn . |
| 29 | I popped in for a short while to the Scottish Gallery in Cork Street , to see the most recent sculptures by Gerald Laing . |
| 30 | I returned home for a late tea and carefully explained to my mother what Dana had done , and tried to excuse the thoughtlessness that had caused her such a shock . |