Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [pers pn] [verb] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 've seen some kites , they 've impressed you and now you want one for yourself . |
| 2 | The band was down below and then a loft , a long wooden just like a dance hall up above and they just did that and they just they had tables set and then they removed them for the dances . |
| 3 | A few yards on and she saw there was no answering wave and she faltered , uncertain if this was Ferdinando or some other lone horseman before whom she would make a fool of herself , but the closer he came the more sure she was that this was her husband and then she chided herself for thinking he had hands free to wave when one was needed for the reins and the other to hold the child . |
| 4 | I was 45 before I spoke with Toscanini and then he attacked me for doing Debussy 's Pelléas et Mélisande at La Scala in French . |
| 5 | Oh yes it 's , it 's been changed a lot and a , and er , it 's made such a difference and I 've met er , I 've got a er fr a very good friend who 's , who 's a Red Cross young man who I met at Leah Manning and he takes me out in the car which I would n't , never get out otherwise because my boys are all working you see they ca n't , they 're busy working and erm do shift work and security work , one 's got his own security business and the other one 's got a factory in Bishop 's Stortford so that they do n't get much chance , they work away , some of them do that they can not get to take me out see , so he takes me out , which he 's very , very good you know , he 's , yesterday he took me to erm , yesterday we , he took me to Ongar to see his sister in the bungalow and then he took me for a meal at erm The Chariot at er , at Brentwood , Brentwood , yes Brentwood The Chariot , it was quite nice I had rather , a good time , erm cos usually I ca n't get out unless I go out in the wheelchair you see I 'm confined to a wheelchair , though I struggle out into the kitchen with me two sticks and I 've got a stool in there that I do all my own cooking and I make cakes and that and I 'm doing a cake gon na make a cake for Christmas for me brother and make a cake , er another one for myself like , but , and then I go to my erm daughter-in-law 's to spend Christmas Day and then I , I 'm going to my son 's and spend Boxing Day which is my birthday , I 'll be seventy four on Boxing Day I 'm dreaded to say , yeah , but erm , this young man that takes me lives in Northbrooks , he 's er a widower , but he 's very , very good , he helps all us old people , you know , he 's ever so good he is to me , he comes up and brings my shopping today , does my shopping for me as well , so , well he 's , yes , he 's most kind , for , nearly two years I 've know him , that 's a photo over there , it was taken at a wedding look , of my , that 's it , over there , taken at a wedding dear , very good |
| 6 | Two there 's the one with Judith and I and then you join us for the last session . |
| 7 | But if you send an estimate you more or less have to say what you 're moving as well because if there 's more than that and you do n't put down what you 're moving then you 're p stuck with the estimate really and in p practice that 's what usually happens , you give an estimate and then you do it for that price . |
| 8 | That 's right , yes , I run the Search Room there , which means that erm people come in to Pelham House , they usually meet me at a desk on the end of a telephone and I put them onto the documents that they want to look at and I make sure they 're ordered up from where they 're kept in one of the various repositories and strongrooms that we 've got , and then I produce them for them and erm if they need any help reading them and so on I give them that . |
| 9 | You see , he was exceptionally nice and he used to lecture at the colleges and er he was a real , very nice gentleman and er and so he , of course he , he , he took his drink across to the table with him and sometimes I took it for him it just depend and he , he wrote this book and er I forget now , perhaps you would like to read and see what he says |
| 10 | We realize Lord , that we ca n't do it ourself we are totally dependent upon you and yet we thank you for this . |
| 11 | Jacob 's demand for a blessing is only what we would expect , and yet it prepares us for the turning point in the story , which follows immediately afterwards , and takes us back into the clearer air of the larger narrative . |
| 12 | Use your notes to compile a summary of the candidate and why you selected him/her for the job . |
| 13 | ‘ I know , Shai Tung , and again I thank you for your concern . |
| 14 | They have no idea what " normal " is and therefore they invent it for themselves and may be very wide of the mark that other families set for themselves . |
| 15 | It was fear that locked his tongue , but mercifully he mistook it for pride , so its bitterness did not poison him . |
| 16 | Having read both books for the first time , I really enjoyed them , but once I read them for the second time , I saw how little there really was to them . |
| 17 | It 's very difficult to get professional advice that is apposite — you used to be able to get free advice from the Ministry of Agriculture but now they charge you for the privilege of being told how not to farm . ’ |
| 18 | In the beginning they demanded small change , but now they ask me for £2 or £3 every time they see me . |
| 19 | But now they knew it for what it was . |
| 20 | But then he felt nothing for her . |
| 21 | But then I 've nothing for Saturday . |
| 22 | but then you left him for an American carpenter . |
| 23 | But actually I had her for half an hour to the commands and everything . |