Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adv] for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Nothing much was doing , though , and eventually I went home for a bite to eat and a well-deserved kip . |
| 32 | I went home for a week at the end of July , just in time to see the beginning of this new menace , the V1 buzz bombs and I have to say they completely terrified me . |
| 33 | On the other hand , after a glance at ‘ Luck of the Legion ’ , I went about for a week with a white handkerchief tucked into the back of my cap , ordering the dog to about-face or wooing it with words of French culled from the strip ( ‘ Oo-ee , mon pet it ’ ) . |
| 34 | I went out for a drink just after seven — at the Sir Richard Steele on Haverstock Hill . |
| 35 | I went out for a walk , then picked blackberries on Periton Hill , in that far clump at the edge of the downs . |
| 36 | I went out for a walk because I could n't stand being indoors . |
| 37 | I went out for a walk yesterday . |
| 38 | ‘ I had a cartilage operation three and a half years ago , and I went in for a tackle just before Christmas and damaged it again . |
| 39 | I went in for a tackle with Brian Mooney and I came off worse because I broke my right leg . |
| 40 | While I 'm digging that garden she used to go out roll in the trench what I 'd dug and soon as I went in for a drink she was in there before me ! |
| 41 | I mean , I ended up staying a month at some bloke 's house after I went in for a pack of strings ! |
| 42 | So I went in for a scholarship with the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts . |
| 43 | Eventually the dinner broke up and Claud , Roger Hollis and I went off for a pub-crawl which after sundry indecorous adventures ended up at the Hypocrites where another blind was going on . |
| 44 | And then she was short of a nursing there and then I went there for a bit . |
| 45 | I went there for a week . |
| 46 | ‘ I went back for a couple of months this summer for the first time in four years . |
| 47 | I sent away for a video instruction tape over two months ago ; the cheque was cashed well over a month ago but as yet I have not received the tape . |
| 48 | Yeah yeah yeah I had a shilling pocket money and out of that I saved up for a bike . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | I hesitated only for a moment as I approached the shop , then walked straight in . |
| 51 | As I had grown some six inches since he had last seen me , I did n't for a moment believe that his recognition was unprompted . |
| 52 | Habitually a somewhat forgetful person , I had also for a couple of days been trying to remember the name of the director of the film Such Good Friends . |
| 53 | There were , of course , the inevitable forms to fill in and letters of condolence to answer , but I realized that I had not for a moment , since before the previous Christmas , given a thought to the prospect of life for one . |
| 54 | She went back into the house and I waited outside for a while enjoying the cool breeze . |
| 55 | I searched round for a crumb of comfort . |
| 56 | I sat around for a while , talking to people . |
| 57 | Anyway , I sat there for a couple of minutes and then the cab came . ’ |
| 58 | I sat there for a while . |
| 59 | I sat there for an hour stuffing my stomach and telling him exactly what had happened . |
| 60 | I sat quietly for a while finishing my most recent cup of coffee . |