Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [verb] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , you could do that , so , so y you go for erm a very high rate of taxation or you go for a lower rate of taxation which is |
| 2 | And when you that lay down you can look at whoever what the other players have got face up and you either go for a player or you go for the maximum points . |
| 3 | Er , I am mindful chairman that I embarrassed you acutely at the end of education meeting on Friday , erm , and I know that I , I have a circumstance coming up in February , where I have a child who is unexpectedly on a training day , erm , on a day where I actually have two meetings of this council , now either I get substituted , or we arrange for a one off carer situation . |
| 4 | and we either go with the word report or we look for an alternative word or words . |
| 5 | Then it began to rain hard and I sheltered for a long time in a barn , but I could n't stay there all night so I just walked and got thoroughly soaked . |
| 6 | He stood up and I noticed for the first time a bunch of keys at his belt . |
| 7 | He looked slightly abstracted ; and I noticed for the first time that his habit of addressing remarks with head bowed — often appearing to contemplate the floor or the ‘ figure in the carpet ’ — had begun to bring about that slight spinal curvature which became accentuated later in life though not without adding to his dignity of bearing . |
| 8 | Her pink flying suit had two dirty orbs where her backside had imprinted itself on the ground and I noticed for the first time that her trainers were at least size 9 ( men 's ) . |
| 9 | Fenella took a deep breath and I noticed for the first time just how impressively she could breathe . |
| 10 | When Eva had gone and I lay for the first time in the same house as Charlie and Eva and my father , I thought about the difference between the interesting people and the nice people . |
| 11 | Professor Pearn and I had for the last ten years been interchangeably secretary and editor of the Burma Research Society , and when we discovered that the Society 's bank had been able to get our balance safely into India before the break-up , we conceived the plan of a series of Burma Pamphlets , describing various aspects of the national life . |
| 12 | Anyway , I was congratulated once more and I realised for the first time that I was actually doing some good . |
| 13 | Her crew danced to their tasks , and I understood for the first time the meaning of the Indonesian words for " crewman " — " anak prahu " , literally " child of the prahu " . |
| 14 | My mother volunteered to look after the luggage while my father and I went for a short walk . |
| 15 | The next day he and I went for a shorter walk and returned about 6 . |
| 16 | It was about how to deal with a road accident and I arranged for a smashed-up car to be towed into the studio , and for actors to sprawl around , made-up to look as if they had appalling injuries . |
| 17 | At least , this is how Mary , Freda and I felt for the first few weeks . |
| 18 | Frances told me about their life in Cornwall and I felt for the first time in my life that I was among people of an older generation that I understood , real people . |
| 19 | and I competed for the Quain Essay prize — a sum of 50 — to be written on the survival of the medieval conception of tragedy in post-medieval literature . |
| 20 | We talked about other things , and I told for the first time the story of how I lost the job at Drummonds , which made us both laugh so much the nurses came running with shocked looks to shut us up . |
| 21 | And I knew for a little while that would be true . |
| 22 | Upstream , through the gorge known as the Wachau , runs one of the prettiest stretches of the river and I sat for a pleasant hour on its embankment watching the swallows skim its waters . |
| 23 | The contractions stopped and I wondered for the hundredth time what my son would look like . |
| 24 | At the Lochy Bar in Caol ( pronounced cool ) just outside Fort William , Martin and I meet for the first time . |
| 25 | And I knelt for a few moments , head buried in my hands . |
| 26 | And I think for the dyslexic child , for the disturbed child generally , we need to offer an atmosphere which is calm . |
| 27 | where R represents the number of correct responses for the right ear/visual field and I stands for the left ear/visual field . |
| 28 | You aim for a reasonable provision of jobs , bearing in mind the job requirement , er within that settlement , and you aim for an appropriate range of social , recreation , and education uses , erm er within the village , so that on the basis of our proposal , as we say in N Y five , you will expect to have a primary school . |
| 29 | His lips twisted and she waited for the inevitable cynical response , but surprisingly it did n't come . |
| 30 | Twice she was in the very act , loaded fork in her hand , when her breathing quickened , her mouth drew into a forbidding shiver of disgust , and she waited for the next signal to come round . |