Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv prt] for a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It 's easier for you to experiment to see how it works than for me to go in for a detailed but boring explanation .
2 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 .
3 I came over for a short visit when my parents first moved here … ’
4 I put in for a supplementary allocation only last week , ’ he said .
5 I popped in for a short while to the Scottish Gallery in Cork Street , to see the most recent sculptures by Gerald Laing .
6 I settled in for a relaxed , warm overview on the world high up in the comfy cab .
7 I looked round for a living man to admire and follow .
8 I looked round for a split second .
9 Gunga drove off over the bridge as I looked around for a suitable spot to get some practice in .
10 I reached over for a large tin on my right , prised the tight lid off with my knife and used a small teaspoon inside to place some of the white mixture from the tin on to a round metal plate in front of the old dog 's skull .
11 Once a month I go out for a serious session — the last of which was a hard circuit of Radnor Forest , but I enjoyed it tremendously . ’
12 I go in for a certain amount of golf , you know .
13 I have to confess that I saved up for a portable television before I saved up for a washing machine , but then my priorities may have been different if I had not had a laundrette opposite the front door .
14 When you sit down for a wee while .
15 She checked about for a likely place of shelter .
16 The sort of thing you read about for a cheap thrill in the advice column of a woman 's magazine — it really happens , it happens to you .
17 ‘ Are you heading off for a dirty weekend with the managing director ? ’
18 She reached out for a pale , beautiful robe that seemed to be a continual pour of colour , like a mountain river with the sun shining on it and , as she did so , there was a whisper of sound behind them .
19 She looked round for a plain grave .
20 She looked around for a blunt instrument .
21 Accent is on comfort when you step in for a relaxing drink .
22 As she warmed up for a short recital in the prison 's dining hall , Evelyn said : ‘ Music is incredible medicine for every human being in some sort of way or another .
23 Day Seven : Time at leisure until you check in for a scheduled flight home to London Heathrow .
24 She held out for a federal party in the negotiations with the Russians ( 1902 ) to the point where the talks broke down .
25 We fell out for a little while but I mean , playing loud but I mean upstairs is fine .
26 This is the moment when we decide whether we go in for a federal Europe or whether we go in for a Europe of member states trading together , competing together , co-operating together .
27 If I did manage to get the rubber disc in now , but then he arrived an hour or two late , and then we went out for a romantic candle-lit dinner , and then we chatted for a while … the spermicide would have decided to cease hostilities at just about the time I needed it to be at its most fierce .
28 They were but it , well it was an event , a big event in , in the , among the younger people anyway in Brooks in Willenhall then and er it was really lovely , really lovely I forget if we had to pay to go in , but er we had er we saved up for a good few weeks before , so that we would have some money to spend at the Wakes it was one of the an event of the year then , but erm I used to like Willenhall Wakes and er I used to go dancing a lot well I was allowed to go dancing cos I 've always loved singing and dancing you see and er I was allowed but I had to be home before my father got home , but I was n't always .
29 And they make up for a curtailed visual field by being able to rotate their heads through 180° .
30 Speaking of all things Mexican , our ragga tipping acquaintances SL2 did n't have the best of times when they headed out for a Big Rave in the land of tequila .
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