Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [adv] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 'll take my bike out for a ride . ’ |
| 2 | And like a well-trained dog I stuck an arm in the air and said , ‘ I 'm putting my foot down for the Telethon , how about you ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I was running just 20 miles a week in my build up for the race . |
| 4 | I cried my eyes out for a night then started writing my own songs . |
| 5 | If one goes to the slightly higher figure , which would be more appropriate for inner suburban development , then instead of my cut out for the Land Ranger map , for one and a half square kilometres , one hundred and fifty hectares , one can take the new ten penny piece . |
| 6 | When I ran my spear in for the kill . ’ |
| 7 | It sat in my wardrobe malevolently for a while until , out of sheer defiance , I grew two inches in as many months and in most directions . |
| 8 | " Will you meet me , Tom ? " she was saying as she bent over him , " when I 'll have my scones out for the tea . " |
| 9 | I 'm a bit tired , to be honest ; I 'm going to get my head down for a while . |
| 10 | If he was n't home , I 'd go back to the squat and keep my head down for a few days . |
| 11 | ‘ I ai n't breaking no law , guvnor , I 'm just borrowing a few pence off my friend here for a drink . ’ |
| 12 | However it might be a good idea to put my name down for the ‘ Understanding Racism ’ Course . |
| 13 | I 've got my appointment through for the hospital , they rang me on Monday . |
| 14 | Honecker begs in vain , then finally asks : ‘ Can I at least leave my luggage here for a bit ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ My turn now for the superlatives . ’ |
| 16 | I think I 'm gon na try and persuade my Mum to let me bring my camera in for the last day of term , I 'm gon na get a bottle of from the shop that 's on . |
| 17 | I think I 'm going to lose my virginity again for the jubilee . |
| 18 | and she 's coming over to see my dad just for the day you know . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's probably just as well for all concerned at the club that I should hang my boots up for a while . |
| 20 | ‘ Last year I won the Julie Rose 10K in a time which was within 10 seconds of my track best for the season , which is indicative of how badly I ran on the track . |
| 21 | She stopped and put her case down for a moment to try and collect herself ; her hands were trembling uncontrollably from the weight . |
| 22 | It yielded in turn to the peak or vernacular building , with a whole range of housing types carefully adapted to the varied needs and ambitions of their builders Probably for the first time , minor differentiations in social rank had a lasting impact on architectural development in Sussex . |
| 23 | I accustomed my pupils to the tiny hard lenses — building up their resistance fastidiously for an extra hour per day — then lost one down the sink and the other down the Holborn Public Baths . |
| 24 | I accustomed my pupils to the tiny hard lenses — building up their resistance fastidiously for an extra hour per day — then lost one down the sink and the other down the Holborn Public Baths . |
| 25 | ‘ Some savers like term shares where they tie their money up for a set period in return for a limited guarantee regarding the interest , ’ says Willis . |
| 26 | Then to stop her crying , anything to stop that , he had to buy her the set of antique-look brass fire-irons she had set her heart on for the lounge , to give an extra touch of authenticity to the rustic stone fireplace and the imitation-log gas fire . |
| 27 | Kate is obviously eating her heart out for a colour changer and an intarsia carriage . |
| 28 | Rachel flopped exhausted into the long white sofa and wrote a long letter to Jenny , pouring her heart out for the first time in three weeks , telling her everything that had happened since she left . |
| 29 | ‘ I am now told that he 's hawking her story around for a six-figure sum , ’ he writes in the 100,000-circulation journal , which is read mainly by journalists , stock-brokers and media personalities . |
| 30 | Christie … of course and two more Redgrave and Pinsent the Olympic rowers who this week started their build up for the next games … yes … in four years time … they 're our special guests in this week 's Friday Feature |