Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the time comes an' I ca n't lift a hundredweight of sugar or me old black pan , then it 'll be time for me to retire upstairs for good . ’ |
| 2 | Gooch , manager Keith Fletcher and England chairman Ted Dexter all praised the Whittingdale sponsorship which has allowed them to gather together for two days in each of the last six weeks . |
| 3 | ‘ Now , will everyone act sensibly for five minutes ? ’ he said . |
| 4 | I mean obviously for thirty |
| 5 | That I lived here for many years as a child , that — " |
| 6 | ‘ I lived here for three years , if you want to be precise . ’ |
| 7 | My lover and I lived together for eight years and then when we got rid of the greengrocer 's shop , he ‘ went back to mother ’ . |
| 8 | I lived there for eighteen months with someone I thought I loved , indeed who I did , do , no , did love . ’ |
| 9 | I lay there for many hours , but at last I fell asleep , and in my small , helpless boat , dreamed of home and the Admiral Benbow . |
| 10 | And we pre-process the data as I say commonly for all the neurons before we present it to our three neurons . |
| 11 | There 's nothing that I want though for spare , cos I 've probably got it |
| 12 | Anyway to finish that story about stopping and starting , I stopped there for fifty years and me mother was still alive when er when I at ninety three and when I retired in nineteen seventy nine , nineteen eighty I told me mum that I was finishing and she looked at me I told you that job would n't last and I , I , I mean I 'd done fifty years all but a few months . |
| 13 | ‘ I came here for some answers . |
| 14 | I served there for thirteen year , became a chargehand eventually and eventually the f the firm folded up . |
| 15 | I reckon just for this it 'll cost you about eighteen quid . |
| 16 | erm I mean as I said before , I do n't have relatives out in the Gulf , but I feel immensely for these men that are out there , men and women , and also for the news reporters , I mean nobody 's actually said what an awful job it must be for these news reporters and sort of camera crews that are actually erm doing this sort of wonderful job of bringing us back here all this information . |
| 17 | And I saw then for certain |
| 18 | Now that is the size of vans that I use now for light removals . |
| 19 | Daphne recalls how , early on , ‘ I made the mistake of allowing one to become too fond of me and , when I went away for two weeks , she died of a broken heart . |
| 20 | In return , she offered to look after my own birds when I went away for one weekend ( it was after the war but rationing was still in force , and most people who could , kept chickens ) . |
| 21 | Just before Christmas I moved jobs , and in the middle of January I went away for three days on a course . |
| 22 | I mention this now to Gordon and he chuckles : ‘ I went specially for that shot . |
| 23 | Yes , her and I went together for seventeen year , before us got married . ’ |
| 24 | In each case , I do so for both the tutors and the learners , even though their needs do not really differ so much . |
| 25 | I think so for two reasons , because erm what was it that one planner said , that planning is the art of which geography is the science . |
| 26 | Oh yes , I think so for that , and , so then we 've got ta bank our work sheets |
| 27 | And I cried solidly for four days . |
| 28 | and erm I went to school at then at the later part of my life I went to Hemel Hempstead and then I left only for four months and went to er work for an ironmonger at ten shillings a week . |
| 29 | Not that I am old or likely to fall , not that I have ever for one moment been unsteady on my feet . |
| 30 | After being hired ‘ I sat here for five weeks waiting for a telephone call , ’ says Terry Chellew , the boss of IDG 's British magazines . |