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 was they who inspired me to struggle incessantly for a better world . |
| 3 | I argued passionately for a top higher band . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I lay there for a long time unhappy and hardly noticing the daily noises of the block assembling round me . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I sit there for a second thinking , No , it ca n't be … |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | From there he fly a Learjet , acting as pathfinder for the Skyhawks , and I believe once for the Super Etendards . |
| 15 | ‘ I pay enough for the poor with my taxes , ’ he said , ‘ so why should n't I be able to make use of them in my work ? |
| 16 | I struggled manfully for a few minutes , neatly nicking Ann 's fishing hat off , which we had to row after to recover ; catching Alan 's flies , on a back cast , and finally managing to get floss and line mixed up in an unbelievably intricate tangle . |
| 17 | In the meantime , as I recall , er I I asked him who he was and I asked his wife who he was because he had asked what we were doing in his house and when he said his house , I thought then for the first time that perhaps this was n't who er we had on the floor . |
| 18 | I went yesterday for the first time . |
| 19 | During the war I worked for the women 's voluntary service and shortly afterwards I went abroad for a few years , returning in the late 1940s , divorced with three children . |
| 20 | And I went there for a little bit , and then we moved on , moved off from there , do you see ? |
| 21 | Neither of us spoke for a few moments , then she asked : ‘ Do you mind if I stay here for a little while ? ’ |
| 22 | One company director — then unconverted — whom I took there for the first time one Tuesday had this reaction : ‘ All my life I have been longing without knowing it to hear preaching like this . ’ |
| 23 | Primarily , I greatly respected the culture and customs of the people and , as a western woman , although free to dress in my own cultural fashion , I dressed respectfully for an Islamic country and covered my hair , arms and legs and wore loose fitting clothes , so I felt comfortable drawing and was protected from the heat of the sun . |
| 24 | And when I left home for the first time , it suddenly occurred to me that there was no reason why I should n't change it . |
| 25 | The world is full of stray cats , many of them searching hopefully for a new home . |
| 26 | She realised now for the first time that she had left her purse behind in Edward 's room . |
| 27 | Can SHe stay here for a few days ? ’ |
| 28 | She lies there for a long time , not saying nothing . |
| 29 | Still able to feel the firm sand beneath her feet , she swam quietly for a few minutes , before turning over on to her back . |
| 30 | He stood for a moment laughing at her as she cast furiously for the vanished rabbit , and walked on , to catch her up , along the raised embankment . |