Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [vb past] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | so I managed for a few weeks and then I went to lodge with my sister at Trimley |
| 2 | So I tried for a calming course , feeling thankful to this man for his dogged clasp on difficulties that would n't cause me any recall of my dead love in a million years , and I pursued the wisp of a path suggested by the word ‘ nanny . ’ |
| 3 | So I paid for the electric motor of the engine to be serviced , but it never worked very well . |
| 4 | So we went for a last look round . |
| 5 | So we settled for the International Press Centre … |
| 6 | One of these had married an Indian Christian doctor , and together they worked for the sick and wounded , although badly handicapped by the lack of medicines . |
| 7 | I think in any marriage or in any family the father and the mother both play different parts , and in my own life I can remember things my mother did and things my father did and together it made for a happy home . |
| 8 | Perhaps it made for a safer relationship if , instead of arguing to a standstill , the party who felt herself misunderstood took her grievance elsewhere and satiated it in transgression . |
| 9 | So he settled for a secure telephone call , indifferent to what that would do to Maxim 's reputation among the Defence Staff at the embassy . |
| 10 | Here is what she wrote : Beware the feline of the sea ; lest might happen to you what happened to me ; When once I booked for a short break stay , I found it impossible to get away — Seacat did not turn up to-day . |
| 11 | At 8.30am yesterday they departed for a one hour , speed endurance training session , completed before the temperature began its climb to 30 C. |
| 12 | Yesterday they lost for the second time when they fell 6-7 , 7-6 , 6-3 , 6-4 to Todd Witsken of the United States and Jorge Lozano of Mexico . |
| 13 | Yesterday they lost for the second time when they fell 6-7 , 7-6 , 6-3 , 6-4 to Todd Witsken of the United States and Jorge Lozano of Mexico . |
| 14 | Later still he became for a short time a professor at Cambridge . |
| 15 | Yesterday he smiled for the last time and said he did not wish to obstruct the work of Prime Minister Hans Modrow — who now constitutes , with a small group of associates from Dresden , the only remaining acceptable face of reform within the East German Communist Party . |
| 16 | She had n't missed him at all when he died , but now she realized for the first time that she had lost her father . |
| 17 | A month ago he had come to see her and now she understood for the first time that what he had said to her then would change her life . |
| 18 | He said : ‘ Originally we went for an American-style back-end load or exit charge which was tapered to reduce by a percentage point for each year an investment was held . |
| 19 | There were things he consciously noticed about people which he brought to mind long after he had ceased to watch them , but now he noted for the first time that she had very small feet — they could have belonged to the oriental he had imagined her to be through the sun haze . |
| 20 | Fussily he searched for a safe place , finally leaning the contraption against the wall behind his chair before sitting down . |
| 21 | Well I worked for the past two year really |
| 22 | Here we lived for the next fifteen years , with the eighteenth-century kirk across the road , and from my study window at the front a clear thirty-mile view across the Tweed valley to the distant Cheviots . |
| 23 | True , his critics would rather he settled for an easier life . |
| 24 | So I went back to alight indicator , pulled down only a few inches , which was enough to allow the bream to suck the bait to their lips , and then I paused for a few seconds while I watched the line from the rod-tip tightening in the water . |
| 25 | Erm and then you went for a whole month which was , you could do something in that time . |
| 26 | There she stood for a long time , gazing out to sea , her heart full of sadness and her eyes full of tears . |
| 27 | At least we did for the longer |
| 28 | Then they left for the 13-mile drive to their luxurious home at Corston , near Bath . |
| 29 | ‘ They sent two of our men off — and then they played for an extra ten minutes so that they had a chance to equalise . ’ |
| 30 | They 'd never amount to a fortune — not at a penny a hundred points — but at least they paid for a few packets of cigarettes . |