Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] for [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Everyone goes in for a little enhancement , one way or another . |
| 2 | After that everything between them became easy for the time being . |
| 3 | ‘ At least let me stay here for a while until I get my head clear . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ At least , let me stay here for a few days . |
| 5 | They asked me to go there for an interview , and from that they recommended a therapist who would see me at her home . |
| 6 | It 's easier for you to experiment to see how it works than for me to go in for a detailed but boring explanation . |
| 7 | One of my other SCOTTISH OFFICE contacts has asked me to go in for a sandwich lunch on Wednesday ( 25th ) , which is kind . |
| 8 | Once she kept me hanging around for an hour and a half , which might sound like a backward step , but you have to remember she was sitting in a place of her own choice , and was taking it all in . |
| 9 | The Dana andrew had told me to wait here for the girl Trefusis had sent indream after me . |
| 10 | It was they who inspired me to struggle incessantly for a better world . |
| 11 | Accompanied by two of his closest advisers , foermer Prime Minister Prem Tinsulanonda and Sanya Dharmasakdi , he appealed to them to work together for the sake of the people and the economy . |
| 12 | In their early twenties they had a group called the Actors and RCA records asked them to come in for a meeting . |
| 13 | After mentioning some of the New Age practices and beliefs , I asked again for a show of hands from those who knew friends and neighbours who were involved . |
| 14 | I made straight for the curtains , and he went by me without noticing . |
| 15 | But this is the room eventually we 're going to use I mean not for a long time yet , as a working medieval kitchen . |
| 16 | I argued passionately for a top higher band . |
| 17 | Young Mrs M. looked shocked at the thought , so she waited outside , while I sprinted in for a quick glimpse at Bishop Stock 's former domain . |
| 18 | And when I come here and I lived here for a few year and then really saw what it was like , I thought , God , never again . |
| 19 | I lived only for the day when I would come into my own . |
| 20 | Here houses looked to me like Monopoly chips : seeing a man cycling over the pathless tundra I scanned hopelessly for a possible point of reference he might have . |
| 21 | I lay there for a long time unhappy and hardly noticing the daily noises of the block assembling round me . |
| 22 | And , miraculously , there was little resistance and I stared in disbelief as the great organ disappeared gloriously and wonderfully from sight I was right behind it with my arm , probing frantically away up to the shoulder as I rotated my wrist again and again till both uterine cornua were fully involuted Ben I was certain beyond doubt that everything was back in place I lay there for a few moments , my arm still deep inside the sow , my forehead resting on the floor . |
| 23 | I lay there for a long time thinking about that , the loud insistence of the Mexican music from across the way drumming in my ears and gradually merging into the crashing ice of layering floes as my mind drifted into a fantasy of trekking with Iris Sunderby towards the dim outline of an icicle-festooned ghost of a ship , the man at the helm towering like a giant question mark over my jet-lagged brain . |
| 24 | I lay there for a minute recovering my cool and then headed for the back door . |
| 25 | There 's rows of benches in front of it and I sit down for a bit to look at the tree . |
| 26 | I feel much better when I 'm back on the platform , and I sit down for a breather . |
| 27 | I sit there for a bit longer , till I finish my coffee , then I decide to go out and have a look round the station . |
| 28 | I sit there for a second thinking , No , it ca n't be … |
| 29 | ‘ May I stay here for a pot of tea ? ’ |
| 30 | Not that I cared much for the way he kept them . |