Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv prt] for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I get a bit dizzy lying down on the bench , like I 'm falling backwards and I got to sit up for a bit . |
| 2 | they tried to go out for a meal , I do n't know whether it was christmas day or boxing day down in and they could n't get n in nowhere , I said well you would n't on a boxing day ! |
| 3 | And I tried to save up for a car cos my son was in the army . |
| 4 | Trouble yeah , trouble I got put off for a fortnight , on the dole , then he , I was on the dole for a week and er he cos at that time you had to appear in front of the erm , what they call the Court of Referees at the Labour Exchange , that was their Committee . |
| 5 | They 'd laid in for a siege with dozens of eggs , cans of luncheon meat , and tea . |
| 6 | Then they 'd gone in for a look . |
| 7 | She wondered if the others were playing a joke on her : perhaps they 'd gone out for a walk ; perhaps , at this very moment , they were laughing at the thought of her waiting for a killer who would never come . |
| 8 | I had this octopus once in Germany and it , we 'd gone out for a meal and I was gon na have steak and mushrooms and |
| 9 | I married Melanie , if I 'm honest , because she was the only one who 'd held out for a wedding-ring . ’ |
| 10 | They arranged to go out for a drink on the second evening , although Kathleen was n't really looking forward to it as it was bound to turn into a ‘ What was the name of that blonde with the big chest ? ’ sort of session and she would end up driving them both home and quite likely putting them both to bed ! |
| 11 | ‘ Well , ’ Yanto began hastily , ‘ I was told he got pinned down for a week in no-man 's land during the battle of the Somme in 1916 . |
| 12 | For instance , the beginning could be ‘ It was a nice sunny day and all the fishes decided to go out for a swim . |
| 13 | ‘ Dominic had left his AA card at home — we had a bit of a row about that — so we gave up on the car and decided to go out for a meal . |
| 14 | I needed to sit down for a minute . |
| 15 | Cotterell nodded and started looking around for a piece of paper . |
| 16 | There is no truth in the rumour that some of their number fancied joining in for a bit of a busman's/policeman 's holiday . |
| 17 | His widow said yesterday : ‘ Money started coming in for a Denholm Elliott Project without me appealing for it and we already have several thousand pounds from British donations as well as £5,000 from Ibiza , where we lived . |
| 18 | Still , they decided to hang out for a couple of days and party with the likes of SHABBA RANKS and KRS-1 . |
| 19 | They therefore decided to break up for a while because , Dustin said , ‘ I wanted my fling . |
| 20 | Well , the shah did fall , and the bureaucrats started casting around for a replacement . |
| 21 | The alarm was raised when she failed to turn up for a meeting with students . |
| 22 | We were in Glasgow last weekend , and were quite chuffed when Ewan consented to come out for a walk just with us two , as he clings to Joyce a bit at the moment . |
| 23 | ‘ I did pop round for a chat with him earlier this evening and I thought he seemed a bit jumpy . |
| 24 | Dosh — I was pretty sure it was Dosh — and I danced some and she finished off the Kümmel , which meant we then had to sit down for a while near the window , where some scatter cushions had been laid . |
| 25 | so we had to sit down for a while . |
| 26 | Born in Cuba to a German-Jewish father and a black mother — ‘ I was sort of kosher , but swinging ’ — he cut sugar-cane in his youth before joining his father , a ship 's steward , on his travels , only to be accidentally left behind on Crete at 12 : ‘ I had to sit down for a minute — almost cried . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ She had to go out for a moment . ’ |
| 28 | The House of Lords allowed the defendant 's appeal with the result that the case had to go back for a retrial eleven years after the plaintiff had suffered damage . |
| 29 | She had been accepted for the job at Ardis & Co , looking the way she normally looked , but if to keep her job — and she had no idea at that stage whether there was a Vasey junior , or similar , at G Vasey Ltd — she had to go in for a bit of de glamorisation , then so be it . |
| 30 | He had come in for a book of stamps , and when he had got it he joined Breeze , who was waiting on the Green . |