Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wife and daughter were usually silent , but Service and I made up for that . |
| 2 | That I lived here for many years as a child , that — " |
| 3 | ‘ I lived here for three years , if you want to be precise . ’ |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | I lived there for eighteen months with someone I thought I loved , indeed who I did , do , no , did love . ’ |
| 6 | I phoned down for some eggs , toast and a quart of coffee . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ I came here for some answers . |
| 9 | Hateley baffled and upset by the affair says : ‘ I came in for that one game , and I thought I did reasonably well . |
| 10 | ‘ I came back for pre-season perfectly all right and fit , but I twisted the ankle in the first minute of our first workout game against Brentford at the training ground . |
| 11 | Well I do n't know , there are such good Japanese coupes now , you know you see these lovely Toyotas and Nissans that they do the sort of two plus two and they 're really lovely cars and but if I change c car this next year I 'll still have to have four seater or , you know , plenty of room in the boot so I can pick you up from Haileybury and all that crap , but if I hung on for another two years I could then get something I actually wanted , you know . |
| 12 | I stuck around for another seven years for the children 's sake but it was very unsatisfactory . |
| 13 | I served there for thirteen year , became a chargehand eventually and eventually the f the firm folded up . |
| 14 | I packed up I packed up for two and a half years and then erm when we went to Spain in August , no in October , the four girls went me and me two sisters and a friend from work , Barbara . |
| 15 | And I saw then for certain |
| 16 | I looked round for more as the first two flamed near the centre of the Grounds , finally collapsing into the grass , stiff-limbed but twitching , crackling to the breeze . |
| 17 | I looked round for some small objects to work with . |
| 18 | I looked around for this other speaker , this eminent historian who had been right in the middle of the action , this acute analyst who assembled with such thoroughness the material I too had worked on , who had packed it into enlightening and readable volumes . |
| 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 | That was an experience I went through for many months , not saying anything . |
| 23 | I was meant to talk for fifteen minutes but I went on for three-quarters of an hour . |
| 24 | I mention this now to Gordon and he chuckles : ‘ I went specially for that shot . |
| 25 | I experienced the medical practice side , I went out for two or three assignments to get a feel for it and it 's doable . |
| 26 | Well , I went down for that Christmas . |
| 27 | And like I went down for that one Monday . |
| 28 | I missed several classes because they put me up in , for instance I , when I came up from the infants to the big school I missed the first standard and they put me into standard two and I went from two , three , four , five , six , seven and seven and I was only eleven , you see , so I did pretty well and then the Headmaster came to my parents and said , why do n't you let her go in for a scholarship to Stowmarket Secondary and so I went in for that and er there was one other girl went as well , there were two of us and erm , and of course we only heard during the summer break and er we passed . |
| 29 | But I did n't give up , I went in for another and I came third again , and then I gave up , so that was the end of that . |
| 30 | Well it 'd probably be the June or July before I went in for this exam , which they did n't hold very frequently and er then I had to pass this exam and that I could leave school in the August , Bank Holiday . |