Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv prt] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone goes in for a little enhancement , one way or another . |
| 2 | It 's easier for you to experiment to see how it works than for me to go in for a detailed but boring explanation . |
| 3 | One of my other SCOTTISH OFFICE contacts has asked me to go in for a sandwich lunch on Wednesday ( 25th ) , which is kind . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In their early twenties they had a group called the Actors and RCA records asked them to come in for a meeting . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | There 's rows of benches in front of it and I sit down for a bit to look at the tree . |
| 8 | I feel much better when I 'm back on the platform , and I sit down for a breather . |
| 9 | How I got round for the four days of the tournament , I do n't know . |
| 10 | And when I got back for the last few weeks Mortimer had left … ’ |
| 11 | I lined up for the 100 metres at the AAA Championships and , lo and behold , everybody came out in similar outfits ! |
| 12 | ‘ I warm up for the down strokes by doing fast alternate picking … ’ |
| 13 | I fumble around for the rest of my kit and fall over Shelagh , who is shining a torch gingerly in one of her boots . |
| 14 | I wandered around for a bit and then came back again . |
| 15 | Then I wandered around for a while , casting wistful glances at my tables . |
| 16 | I wandered around for a while , in a bit of a daze , and then strolled back here . |
| 17 | When I wandered out for a surf-check in the morning , Michael was sitting on the bench . |
| 18 | Taking my leave , I headed off for the developing tanks at my studio . |
| 19 | On the second day , I geared up for the Horseshoe Pass , three miles up followed by a long down to Llangollen . |
| 20 | I sauntered about for an hour before I could find Sir James Macdonald … |
| 21 | ‘ I came on for the final five minutes of that match and got 45 minutes in the second half of the second leg which we won 1–0 . |
| 22 | I came over for a short visit when my parents first moved here … ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I came in for a lot of criticism but I know in my heart that the good things I did there were very conveniently swept under the carpet at the time . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I came in for a lot of adulation during my racing days — groupies . |
| 25 | I came down for the fire , for it was cold in my room . |
| 26 | I came back for a month , met a Peruvian girl and then I got a letter from her giving me a really good reason to come back . |
| 27 | He told me , before I first went to England in 1947 , to make sure I came back for the next Australian season so that I would be eligible for selection for the '48 tour . |
| 28 | With the playback that in fact erm as has said it showed me what in fact I was doing right and wrong , erm I 've been on television before once when I was running the London marathon but this time it was actually me and me alone in a work element and I could in fact see what I was doing and why I was doing it and understand in fact the corrections from the morning to in fact the afternoon presentation when I came back for the second one . |
| 29 | ‘ I came out for a walk , ’ she said , shrugging off his hands . |
| 30 | ‘ I put in for a supplementary allocation only last week , ’ he said . |