Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adv] [adv] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I came out here for a breath of air , ’ he said , ‘ but I guess it 's time to go back now . |
| 2 | Although confessing to being ‘ a bit surprised ’ , she told ACCOUNTANCY : ‘ I worked quite hard for the month before but in the end , it 's a question of learning the stuff , and making sure you remember it when you get in there . ’ |
| 3 | So we were able to tell how many tickets of certain classes were sold each day but not route by route , we 'd lost that that facility because the waybills just were n't big enough and of course the , wa everything got mechanical but now I mean I do n't profess to know anything about what happens now but I was introduced to it when I went down there for a retirement and believe me it 's , it 's all electronics now they can tell how a ticket machine is issuing tickets at any particular one day by this , this electronic business , this computers . |
| 4 | I was supposed to have a meeting on with erm , a couple of guys from the British Coal Enterprise down in Middlesbrough with , but unfortunately again the weather caught all of them out and they decided not to come , but did n't occur to them to say they would n't come , so I sat down there for an hour , and eventually managed to find a phone number and get in contact and the guy was still there , and he said oh no I 'm not coming up . |
| 5 | He meant , among other things , are you living with anyone ? and she knew it , but she cared too much for the day together to tell him one way or the other . |
| 6 | She came up here for a night to see Mummy , to sort out some details about the wedding . ’ |
| 7 | And then er that was that till Saturday evening , especially in the winter , then you went back again for the evening rounds . |
| 8 | Your honour knows you went too far for a master to a servant or even to his equal and I can not bear it . |
| 9 | Welcome to Molyneux , Headley , Brian Horton 's with me , the United manager because he was brought up in this part of the world , must be very proud of what you brought up here for the second half Brian , but so disappointed after that first half showing . |
| 10 | After that , she went out later for a few mornings , not admitting to herself whether or not she was avoiding him . |
| 11 | She lay very still for a moment , trying to think . |
| 12 | Hari took the money out of the old cracked teapot she kept on the shelf , she had just enough for the rent and she smiled in relief . |
| 13 | The need she had just then for a wild outpouring of physical exertion was stronger than anything else : she wanted to go on , pulling at the rope and screaming with laughter . |
| 14 | Silly , silly man , she mused as she struck out strongly for the other side of the pool . |
| 15 | Alice was understandably puzzled , saying , ‘ Well in our country you 'd generally get to somewhere else — if you ran very fast for a long time as we 've been doing . ’ |
| 16 | She wondered rather wildly for a moment if they would both refuse to let go and imagined herself the unwilling participant in an unlikely tug of war , but Bernard took one look at Alain and released her . |
| 17 | She sat very still for a moment , the room revolving around her like a carousel as the pain in her head hammered to a crescendo then receded again to a just bearable throb . |
| 18 | She sat there silently for a few moments . |
| 19 | At the Elephant and Castle we looked yet again for a means of bringing the dispute to an end . |
| 20 | Many of them went only partly for the money . |
| 21 | She came back to the north with him after that and they lived together again for a time . |
| 22 | They drove on silently for a few minutes and then Mrs Lomax suddenly spoke . |
| 23 | But they survived long enough for the continents to regroup and to radically alter the atmosphere . |
| 24 | They looked up incuriously for a moment , then went back to their talk . |
| 25 | They had like well for the sake of saying , pigeon co for food and even poultry food like , you know , such as er , well they used to call it Sharp 's and mix it up like into a mash , you know . |
| 26 | There was a plop as it landed in the water , then it thrashed around wildly for a few seconds before settling down . |
| 27 | I only pray that the vision which he grasped so clearly for the local church might be taught clearly and then caught by the whole Church of England . |
| 28 | He played only once for the Millers and was understudy to former Middlesbrough keeper Kelham O'Hanlon and current keeper Billy Mercer . |
| 29 | ‘ Dalziel , ’ he murmured audibly enough for the fruit machine victims to glance his way , ‘ is not bloody well going to get it . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ He came back once for a check . |