Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [verb] [pron] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said our flight had been delayed and he 'd spent the time in the bar , and then added , rather unconvincingly , that some woman had insisted on ‘ plying Phaeton with liquor ’ as he put it , but there was a hollowness in the way he said it , and I do n't think either Gill or I believed him for a moment . |
| 2 | How about your Christmas card this year ? why not knit one and them photograph it for a really professional look ? |
| 3 | This way , Dad and I get you for a little longer . |
| 4 | Henri and I sheltered them for a while , but of course it was very risky with the Germans billeted everywhere except the smallest cottages . |
| 5 | ‘ I did n't know at the time it had been in the Quakers boardroom but it was a good , handmade , solid oak table and I got it for a reasonable price , ’ he said . |
| 6 | And I fought it for a long time and I wanted to get kick-started back to where I was before , because I felt under a cloud . |
| 7 | Then she held out her hand to me , and I took it for a second . |
| 8 | Yeah I 'd considered buying it and all that , you know it do n't take five minutes you know , and I took it for a test drive |
| 9 | I lived with my husband for er , three and a half years , and I knew him for a good number of years before then , so we made a joint decision after that period of time that we were , wanted to commit ourselves |
| 10 | It was this last that gave him pause , for , he was to say , ‘ Although I had no knowledge of it — that place where the Twelve Judges sit — I believed that I had long since dreamed it , and I knew it for a place of great finality and immense power . |
| 11 | All the perennials are bought in containers and I grow them for a year in their pots to see how they cope with the conditions , then I plant them out in the garden . " |
| 12 | There 's a man and a woman sitting at a table by the window , and I watch them for a bit . |
| 13 | The smoke sort of hangs in blue layers above the bed and I watch it for a bit . |
| 14 | There 's a fag end on the ground by my eye and I watch it for a bit . |
| 15 | Yes , every now and then the temptation to do something sort of very cool and very sort of ten point Univers and you do it for a bit , and you 've done it and then you use some proper faces instead . |
| 16 | Yeah , like somebody else , like , you 're walking down the street , like , you 're in a house and , and you check it for a minute and you 're like |
| 17 | Short of battering him on the head with a blunt instrument — the thought held immense appeal , and she savoured it for a long moment , before reluctantly putting it on hold — she could n't come up with any way out of the present situation . |
| 18 | And she knew it for a fact when he murmured smoothly , ‘ I think I might find it agreeable . ’ |
| 19 | She came over to me one night and she asked me for a lift . |
| 20 | As with the girl who died earlier in the year , this beaker of solution was in her bedroom and she mistook it for a bedtime drink . |
| 21 | She had chosen for herself the human equivalent of sackcloth and ashes , and she denounced herself for a masochist . |
| 22 | The other car , the other De Dion we had , burst its radiator , but we are very resourceful ; we went and bought thirty foot of garden hose and connected it to the engine and sent the water round and round the car and that acted as a radiator , and we drove it for a week like that . |
| 23 | It is the vision of people looking up from the depths , de profundis , from the ‘ dark shadow of death ’ and of despair , and seeing a new light : ‘ unlooked for , glittering and bright ; and the people of Middle-earth beheld it from afar and wondered , and they took it for a sign , and called it Gil-Estel , the Star of High Hope ’ . |
| 24 | He had the operation the next day and they took us for a couple of minutes and that was it — they just did n't care . |
| 25 | ‘ Be soft with this London lot and they take you for a ride . |
| 26 | I wanted to cut my hair short , and they allowed it for a while , until they discovered from a ‘ friend ’ that I am a lesbian , and then they tried everything they could to stop me dressing as I used to . |
| 27 | Woolworth chief Geoff Mulcahy 's shares cost £374,000 — and he sold them for a £1,037,000 profit . |
| 28 | And he does his for a tenner . |
| 29 | ‘ And there was a sailor there — submariner , I think he was — and he asked me for a date , but I said no . ’ |
| 30 | He come round and he asked me for a change of a fiver . |