Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [verb] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ Rainforest ’ turns out to be the squawking tropical bird noise already playing in the Centre , so I settle for the crashing waves and seagull cries of ’ Ocean ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ Better than you did for the entire evening . ’ |
| 3 | No , no ; that sounded too much like the Bible , so she plumped for the simple way and finished , ‘ He has given her a baby . ’ |
| 4 | We decided we were n't going to get on without flirting with a lot of trouble , so we opted for the trusty 1-iron again . |
| 5 | But you need real people for a proper gloat so we headed for the cardboard suburb in the Strand . |
| 6 | She watched him walk away along the corridor heading back towards the club , her heart feeling lighter than it had for the past week . |
| 7 | For the top and intermediate Party leadership , Hitler 's image stood therefore in far closer relationship to reality than it did for the broad mass of the population . |
| 8 | It took longer for the territories with loud speakers to be occupied than it did for the silent territories ( Figure 6.2 ) . |
| 9 | Later I tell C that if I worked for the Daily Star , I 'd have my story already . |
| 10 | Professor Bernard Isaacs of Birmingham University has said : ‘ If you design for the young , you exclude the old . |
| 11 | Note that if you go for the unfiltered system , water changes must be regular . |
| 12 | ‘ You need to know where they all are if you work for the Royal Mail , ’ Coltman says . |
| 13 | If we write for the current value of ( it will be zero unless is basic ) , we have seen that , when , we can still satisfy ( 8.1 ) with where for reverse , for forward and zero for all other variables . |
| 14 | Mary Barton continues : ‘ If we pray for the dead , Sir , will God hear us ? ’ , |
| 15 | If they went for the traditional look I suppose they 'd all be wearing hard hats that looked like the flat cap Victorian cyclists always wore . |
| 16 | Trent waited until they made for the upriver side , then charged forward uncaring . |
| 17 | It was a private lair , and though they 'd often wished to have a fire they 'd never done so — not because they feared for the dry wood of the spinney but because they knew that rising smoke would sooner or later be investigated . |
| 18 | A catapult lives with you until the last moment ; it stays tensed in your hands , breathing with you , moving with you , ready to leap , ready to sing and jerk , and leaving you in that dramatic pose , arms and hands outstretched while you wait for the dark curve of the ball in its flight to find its target , that delicious thud . |
| 19 | However , as you have some discretion in these matters , Mr. Speaker , and while we wait for the Scottish electorate to remove the remainder of the Scottish Conservative party from this House , would it not be appropriate for you to give priority to Scottish Members at Scottish Question Time ? |
| 20 | He drags morosely on the cheroot while we wait for the pretty young newsreader to get through the latest government verbals on the self-pitying unemployed . |
| 21 | Yet he can still play for his former club while he waits for the clearing period to expire . |
| 22 | He stopped and Carrie saw his mouth tremble while he searched for the right words to say how mean and horrible Mr Evans was . |
| 23 | ‘ Like your party trick with the neutrino collectors and the hymetusite : we could n't have scaled it up enough to solve Earth 's energy shortfall , but it could have supported us here whilst we searched for the long-term solution — the high-mass elements in Lucifer 's core . ’ |
| 24 | Whether you yearn for the fresh beauty and tranquillity of the countryside in Spring , or prefer the lure of the exotic East , the discerning traveller 's journey starts here |
| 25 | When she had finished hanging out the washing , before she went for the weekly shop at SavaCentre , Sara applied her lipstick , and around her throat she squirted the toilet water which she had had for three years and never before used . |
| 26 | I implore you , before you write for the French stage , to listen to their operas and find out what above all pleases them . |
| 27 | You talk about leading questions again that testing trial closed where we 'd just test the water before we go for the actual commitment . |
| 28 | Vocals went straight down with only the minimum of top end EQ to keep them sharp , and when I went for the final mixdown I have to say I was amazed at how big a sound was coming back from the monitors . |
| 29 | When I worked for the Daily Telegraph , the editor , Bill Deedes , would say that he never missed the letters column of the Guardian . |
| 30 | I felt frightened as I waited for the mysterious man . |