Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [vb -s] for a [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | She just goes for a walk . |
| 2 | erm , have a talk and a laugh and she just stops for a coffee after |
| 3 | She usually plumps for a lamb rogan josh ( £7.25 ) , a traditional dish cooked with spices , browned onions , ginger and garlic and simmered in yoghurt . |
| 4 | ‘ Evelyn told me she often comes for a walk among the dunes , ’ Newman remarked . |
| 5 | It only allows for a diet less generous as regards variety than that supplied to able-bodied paupers in workhouses . |
| 6 | But Geoff , he do n't shout out or anything — he just waits for a bit till they finish their tea and then he shouts out ‘ Enjoy your tea then ’ , and as they look up he pisses a bit more and they go barmy . ’ |
| 7 | It is not easy to find a general definition of the normal meaning of irony , but it usually stands for a process by which the content of a statement is qualified either by the reader 's attribution of a contrary intention to the author , or by the reader 's awareness of factors that are in conflict in one way or another with what is being said . |
| 8 | He usually sleeps for a couple of days and then slowly builds himself up for the next trip . |
| 9 | Well he 's got to ring Mr and see if he if he really pushes for a month 's notice well we 'll have to just pay another month and stay you know ? |
| 10 | It now hopes for a future in the software design and systems integration market for massively parallel systems , but aside from an image processing library has no obvious product ready , and would not elucidate further . |
| 11 | It even allows for a degree of experimentation in that the delegated legislation can be used to alter provisions in the parent act . |
| 12 | The social person first moves out of his original position ( role ) ( " the rite of separation " ) ; he then exists for a time in a liminal condition , a threshold of time and space which is outside the ordinary world of secular affairs and is treated as in some way " sacred " ( Van Gennep 's " rite de marge " ) ; finally he moves back into secular society in his new position ( role ) ( " the rite of aggregation " ) . |