Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] [adv] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | B : You 'd better make straight for the bank , otherwise you 'll be too late . |
| 2 | ‘ I think you 'd better rest here for a while , ’ she followed him out of the kitchen and into the sitting-room to tell him . |
| 3 | And while she 's on the job , she 'd better look round for a well-born filly for Timothy to marry . |
| 4 | But I think they 'd just gone back for the money creed and once you get that well erm they do n't realize that they could be falling into the trap unless we blokes stand firm now to maintain this standard of living . |
| 5 | ‘ Steve ! ’ she cried in amazement as he let himself into the apartment , grinning all over his silly face as if he 'd just popped out for a paper that morning and found he 'd won the state lottery . |
| 6 | I was waiting for Professor Avenarius whom I 'd occasionally met here for a chat . |
| 7 | Turning well inside the box he side-stepped Birney to hammer in a shot which McConnell did well to push out for a corner . |
| 8 | However , if Europeans were exasperated with Carter , many had little liking either for the man who beat him in the November presidential elections . |
| 9 | She was ready now for the sight of the chair , the pipe , the feeling that her father had only popped out for a minute and would be back before she could leave . |
| 10 | We 've already seen how carefully planned customer flow can encourage the shopper to leave with a loaded basket when she had only popped in for a loaf of bread or a pint of milk . |
| 11 | In the second incident , involving the credit card , he had only gone along for the ride , and had not used the card himself , said Mr Harper . |
| 12 | After all , I had only come back for a day or two to buy some good German clothes . |
| 13 | Pilger told him they had better get together for a serious talk the minute he got off the plane . |
| 14 | Recently , we had enough saved up for a nice flat after having lived in one room for a year . |
| 15 | She and had obviously gone away for the weekend . |
| 16 | Aware that there was no accepted path for women in deacons ' orders in the Church of England , she had nevertheless looked around for a curacy which would put her in possession of solid parish experience . |
| 17 | This was the new name of a group which had already existed informally for a few years , with a number of representatives from well-known " reforming " Edinburgh families on its committee : the McLarens , Mairs and Stevensons for instance . |
| 18 | The idea seemed to fit Lucy 's current expression , as though all hands had already gone down for the third time . |
| 19 | During this ceaseless pursuit of the right métier for my particular brand of foolishness , I had already pitched up for a Telethon trailer to flamenco dance for the cause . |
| 20 | He was lonely and broke and had already barged in for the loan of a cupful of Quaker oats . |
| 21 | ‘ She 's a tough customer , ’ remarked Melissa when they had finally settled down for the night . |
| 22 | He kept forgetting they would write it down : he seems to have thought — most of the time — that they had just turned up for a friendly drink . |
| 23 | It would n't be much good telling them I had just popped out for a breath of air this street led to both the bus and railway stations and it would n't need a genius to rumble my little game . |
| 24 | The impression of a house where the occupants had just walked out for a stroll in the garden was very strong . |
| 25 | The theatre of La Scala was completed by 1778 by Giuseppe Piermarini following the decision by City Governor Ferdinand Hapsburg not to rebuild the theatre in the Palazzo Reale which had just burned down for the third time . |
| 26 | She said she could n't stay , that she had just dropped in for a minute . |
| 27 | After an evening of pleasure and profit with my friends in Bank Street , I had clearly gone out for a drink or two . |
| 28 | This is the date England had originally set aside for a friendly against the Republic of Ireland in Dublin but which both Robson and Jack Charlton agreed to abandon when they found themselves paired in the same World Cup group . |
| 29 | The boathouse looked completely disused from the river and a courting couple , discovering the unlocked grille , had simply slipped inside for a bit of extra privacy . |
| 30 | But I had neither stumped up for a bale of fluffy bathroom towels , nor chipped in to the Qantas ticket . |