Example sentences of "i [vb past] [adv prt] for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | While leaving it to cool , I reached over for the map ; the mug was caught by my sleeve , fell forward with a gurgle , and emptied . |
| 32 | On one occasion I lay down for a rest , dozed off for 15 minutes , and awoke to find half a dozen sitting on branches within a few metres of my recumbent form . |
| 33 | ‘ I lay down for a rest after lunch and was about to drift into sleep when there was a definite pop inside me , which made me think my waters had broken . |
| 34 | I went up for a weekend . |
| 35 | I got an elbow in the face as I went up for a header and I remember putting my head down and running straight into Bull 's back . |
| 36 | ‘ It was made in his atelier so I went over for the fittings and in those years I was very sure of myself . |
| 37 | On the other hand , after a glance at ‘ Luck of the Legion ’ , I went about for a week with a white handkerchief tucked into the back of my cap , ordering the dog to about-face or wooing it with words of French culled from the strip ( ‘ Oo-ee , mon pet it ’ ) . |
| 38 | I went out for a drink just after seven — at the Sir Richard Steele on Haverstock Hill . |
| 39 | I went out for a walk , then picked blackberries on Periton Hill , in that far clump at the edge of the downs . |
| 40 | I went out for a walk because I could n't stand being indoors . |
| 41 | I went out for a walk yesterday . |
| 42 | I went out for the day , and came back to find the room full of thick smoke from Holmes ' pipe . |
| 43 | Amy and I went out for the day . |
| 44 | It went on and on until I was nearly frantic , so I went out for the evening several times in one week to release the tension . |
| 45 | ‘ I had a cartilage operation three and a half years ago , and I went in for a tackle just before Christmas and damaged it again . |
| 46 | I went in for a tackle with Brian Mooney and I came off worse because I broke my right leg . |
| 47 | While I 'm digging that garden she used to go out roll in the trench what I 'd dug and soon as I went in for a drink she was in there before me ! |
| 48 | I mean , I ended up staying a month at some bloke 's house after I went in for a pack of strings ! |
| 49 | So I went in for a scholarship with the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts . |
| 50 | But then I thought , ‘ I 'll show him , ’ and I went in for the Pub Entertainer of the Year contest . |
| 51 | when I went in for the steamer |
| 52 | Eventually the dinner broke up and Claud , Roger Hollis and I went off for a pub-crawl which after sundry indecorous adventures ended up at the Hypocrites where another blind was going on . |
| 53 | ‘ I went back for a couple of months this summer for the first time in four years . |
| 54 | One enterprising young man gathered 60 ration books into his brief-case and persuaded an RCAF pilot , due for a recognizance flight that day , to fly him several hundred miles across the provincial border to Atlin , B.C. At the friendly invitation of those concerned I went along for the ride and helped my energetic friends load five cases of Johnny Walker , which we transported back to Whitehorse well in time for a Saturday night party . |
| 55 | I went along for the ride ; Mrs Goreng needed moral support and a straight guy to conduct an emergency dialogue with , if the need arose . |
| 56 | In my own defence I can say only that I went along for the ride , as it were , if you 'll forgive the expression , Mr Milton . ’ |
| 57 | Yeah yeah yeah I had a shilling pocket money and out of that I saved up for a bike . |
| 58 | I have to confess that I saved up for a portable television before I saved up for a washing machine , but then my priorities may have been different if I had not had a laundrette opposite the front door . |
| 59 | But Molly knew he would say when they got home , ‘ For what I shelled out for the water we might as well have filled the loos up with Chianti . ’ |
| 60 | I searched round for a crumb of comfort . |