Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [pers pn] [vb past] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean he came for a flying visit and he went back did n't he ? he came for a flying visit and went back |
| 2 | ‘ I expect he went for a walk after . |
| 3 | ‘ I hear you qualified for the race . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I know you cared for the boy yourself . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I thought I went for the Amazonian types , ’ he commented , ladling some of the food on to his plate warily . |
| 6 | I thought I had for a moment . ’ |
| 7 | I think she did for the most part . |
| 8 | So where do you think he went for the winter ? |
| 9 | At the end of the week she discovered he worked for an average of 1 minute at a time . |
| 10 | She looked so like my daughter did at her age , and the pleasure she gave me compensated for the lack of time I had with her mother when she was a child . |
| 11 | She said she said for the first week you unwind , I thought if we have a weeks holiday that means that the time you unwind you 're back to work again ! |
| 12 | She said she asked for a lift for herself and a male friend as a joke . |
| 13 | And she said she spoke for the two other chip shop owners in the town in rebutting the charges . |
| 14 | She said he worked for the fund on a voluntary basis , adding : ‘ It had nothing to do with Nalgo . |
| 15 | What did you say he did for a living ? ’ |
| 16 | Regulars at the hotel share the owners indignation … they say they fought for the flag in the last war : |
| 17 | They set it tilted for a moment , leaning one side on a stone that Luch slipped under for them , while Ruari listened and sniffed and weighed the hive in his hand . |
| 18 | Once , middle-class muesli-belt dinner party guests would choke on their chardonnay when they learned I wrote for the Sun . |
| 19 | That was totally unplanned. erm I was told by a friend that there was erm Pebble Mill were going to organise an Environment Project Competition for Great Britain , and they suggested I sent for a form , which I did , and filled it in , and erm to my astonishment a film crew came down and filmed the pond , and later on I was invited with my husband to Pebble Mill to get this award and it was given me by Virginia Mackenna and Bill Waters , and David Bellamy was there , and erm we had a wonderful time . |
| 20 | David is concerned at the length of time he says it took for an ambulance to arrive . |
| 21 | She waited ; it seemed she waited for an eternity . |
| 22 | He said he felt for the staff who had given so much for Timex , then added : ‘ I also feel sad for the strikers . ’ |
| 23 | He said he left for the thrill of a start-up rather than the tedium of maintenance , indicating Silicon Graphics , MIPS new master , did not consider making the MIPS chip a universal standard as much of a priority as Sun does the Sparc . |
| 24 | The younger Dr Gysi used a term from the 1920s when he said he stood for a ‘ third path between Stalinism and capitalism ’ . |