Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [adv] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this is the room eventually we 're going to use I mean not for a long time yet , as a working medieval kitchen . |
| 2 | I lay there for a long time unhappy and hardly noticing the daily noises of the block assembling round me . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I lay there for a minute recovering my cool and then headed for the back door . |
| 6 | There 's rows of benches in front of it and I sit down for a bit to look at the tree . |
| 7 | I feel much better when I 'm back on the platform , and I sit down for a breather . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I sit there for a second thinking , No , it ca n't be … |
| 10 | ‘ I warm up for the down strokes by doing fast alternate picking … ’ |
| 11 | I fumble around for the rest of my kit and fall over Shelagh , who is shining a torch gingerly in one of her boots . |
| 12 | ‘ I put in for a supplementary allocation only last week , ’ he said . |
| 13 | ‘ That 's why I put in for the R.F.C. We 're literally the only sportsmen left . ’ |
| 14 | Yeah but erm , I , I ca n't understand why because when I put in for the my , my house I did n't put him , he were n't even on the pap paperwork and all of a sudden he , he |
| 15 | I put in for the eh , my driving test again . |
| 16 | ‘ I guess when I show up for the Majors I 'll be a little more popular . |
| 17 | I 'll tell you , Crilly , about my first trip to Scotland and the men in chip shops who call you ‘ Hen ’ and the lads wearing green Celtic scarves at lunchtime and broad pointy-horned cattle and graveyards macabre with the tilting of tombstones caked with moss and weeds , sheep grazing and weaving amongst them , and a coastal fishing town in Harris where a night sky shimmers only to itself and I am without friends from , the real world and I listen only for the sound of the tin whistle while the boats rock gently in the jetty and the sky rages from beige to black and craggy mountains dart until forever and a fisherman stands , stunning and alone , strong and unnamed , and leads me slowly into that everchanging sea . |
| 18 | Halfway through a morning 's work , I climb down for a coffee . |
| 19 | With the rod in my right hand and the line between butt-ring and reel looped over the middle finger of my left hand I wait impatiently for a bite . |
| 20 | I 'm going to stay there for a bit while I look round for a place . ’ |
| 21 | I watch intently for a half-hour , seeing how often the chub move out of the darkness and into the light , and that the time spent there is more or less the same on each occasion . |
| 22 | I hang around for a bit , pretending to look at some writing on the board . |
| 23 | ‘ All right if I drop in for a drink this evening ? ’ he said . |
| 24 | Sometimes I drop out for the first verse of songs and let Keith do rhythm and then I come back in for the second verse ; it brings the level of intensity right up . |
| 25 | I stand here for the President , and there is no spirit good or bad who will hinder me . |
| 26 | I stand there for a second , before stepping back . |
| 27 | When the rain stops I set off for a walk in the cool , after-rain air . |
| 28 | Before I set off for the station for the train to Puno , I loaded up with imodium to seal my loose , nervous bowels ; folded my chain and felt its weight in my hand . |
| 29 | Anyway , being in the fortunate position to be able to drive along the road to Corrour , although my car suspension did n't agree it was so fortunate , a companion and I set off for the first peak , Beinn Eibhinn from halfway along the road , above the river Ghuilbinn . |
| 30 | When Kalchu and I set out for the headman 's house several mornings later it was bitterly cold . |