Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [adv prt] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | if I won bigger money , I should go in for a new house , which would be built to our own idea , so that we could get a bigger scullery … . |
| 2 | You know then we thought right , we 're not just gon na forget about this you know , we 'll we 'll carry on for a little while longer and then as soon as the ball really started rolling , er personally I thought well you ca n't back down now , . |
| 3 | So then I decided I would like to be that I knew there was a job going on the electricians , so I thought well I 'll I 'll go in for the electrical side . |
| 4 | I 'll get this train stopped and we 'll go back for the lost car . |
| 5 | You would think that one of us might scurry around for a new word instead of accepting linguistic hand-me-downs . |
| 6 | Now if they 're multiplied or divided then you ca n't say , Oh well I 'll just take this bit and do that and then I 'll come back for the other one . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , I 'll come along for a little while to the bonfire , but do n't accept for me later . |
| 8 | He had thought that he might slip in for a quick snack that would keep body and soul together before he went back to his room to brood about the situation that he had handled so badly . |
| 9 | She says yeah she says I 'll pop in for a quick cuppa . |
| 10 | I thought I 'd wait up for the early morning newscast on the radio . ’ |
| 11 | He 'd speak out for a poor helpless old man like Donny , just as he did for Ireland . ’ |
| 12 | We could also decide on points where the accompaniment could take over for a brief period , or perhaps form a dialogue with the melody . |
| 13 | It could go on for a long time in this condition , like the Spanish Empire in its centuries of decline . |
| 14 | The list could go on for a long time . |
| 15 | This is another list that could go on for a long time . |
| 16 | I could go on for a long time in praise of Maxwell . |
| 17 | But er I could er I I could go on for a long time on that subject but time 's short dear , |
| 18 | Oh I see they 'd put in for a new pair and sell the old pair ? |
| 19 | ‘ She desperately wanted to play the wife role and would spend an afternoon cooking a beautiful meal for him and he would arrive with an expensive bottle of wine and they 'd settle down for a cosy evening . ’ |
| 20 | Sixty miles they used to come over for a good evening at those and maybe two principles |
| 21 | Used to come up for the odd break . |
| 22 | We used to come in for a fair amount of ribbing and good-natured chaff , and remarks like , Was it a red sky this morning ? |
| 23 | He is said to sink onto his knee on the track and wait for the train to end his life ; the train crews used to look out for the shadowy figure and shudder . |
| 24 | Let's go out for a nice meal somewhere . |
| 25 | On employment , the Labour party would sign up for a massive extension of Community competence and majority voting in the name of the social charter . |
| 26 | Then I 'd go down the town buy us all clothes then , you and I would go out for a private dinner Jean . |
| 27 | Things would quieten down for a little while and the huddles be reformed , but before long there was the crack of a whip and a pony and trap would dash down the field . |
| 28 | The gayer , shorter girls would come on for a general dance to the Gavotte . |
| 29 | All sorts would turn up for a little chat . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ It will make up for the dismal showing of the England football and cricket teams , lift some of the sporting gloom . |