Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [vb past] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually I asked for a transfer , but could n't get one , so I stayed and now I 'm glad I did . ’ |
| 2 | Delicately I reached for the telephone . |
| 3 | So I reached for the senator 's hand , and thereby couched my lance to face the dragon 's fire . |
| 4 | so I managed for a few weeks and then I went to lodge with my sister at Trimley |
| 5 | That sounded great to me so I opted for the hike . |
| 6 | Anyway , er so I thought for a , I 've had a large of the press today which is , it 's a very tense case indeed . |
| 7 | And so I waited for the darkness of the Tongan night to lift , my fingers tightly crossed . |
| 8 | So I settled for the fact that you ca n't devote the time which I feel you would need to give to the job . |
| 9 | So I tried for a calming course , feeling thankful to this man for his dogged clasp on difficulties that would n't cause me any recall of my dead love in a million years , and I pursued the wisp of a path suggested by the word ‘ nanny . ’ |
| 10 | So I paid for the electric motor of the engine to be serviced , but it never worked very well . |
| 11 | Impatiently she reached for a tissue and wiped it off . |
| 12 | So she made for the orchard first . |
| 13 | The bedroom was on the same level as the terrace , the small sitting-room and the kitchen , and so she waited for the sound of another door or footsteps on the stone staircase down to the entrance hall . |
| 14 | So she waited for the summons to the prince 's presence , and went with a demure step and a high heart when she was called at last . |
| 15 | Yeah so you went for the C and you got it right it 's a good one |
| 16 | Daily we waited for the skies to fall . |
| 17 | We 'd have got here sooner only we stopped for a bite of something . |
| 18 | So we went for a last look round . |
| 19 | So we went for a shellac finish . |
| 20 | And we know that he was left this red chest of Flanders so we sought for a Flanders chest , that 's a chest probably actually made in North Germany but imported through Flanders and we found a Yorkshire example in a place called near Ripon . |
| 21 | So we settled for the International Press Centre … |
| 22 | So they looked for the form and they could n't find it . |
| 23 | And that was the poor old man he was just just about away so they sent for the ambulance and took him down to Forfar to They used to call that the poor house , I do n't know what they call it now but it was the poor house in those |
| 24 | so they phoned for the doctor very quick , quick , quick |
| 25 | One of these had married an Indian Christian doctor , and together they worked for the sick and wounded , although badly handicapped by the lack of medicines . |
| 26 | I think in any marriage or in any family the father and the mother both play different parts , and in my own life I can remember things my mother did and things my father did and together it made for a happy home . |
| 27 | Basically it provided for the care and treatment of the mentally disordered through the NHS under the central direction of the Minister of Health . |
| 28 | The little Hoflin did n't fall over and looked extremely pretty , and when the curtain came down he leaned for a moment on the rostrum and took a deep breath . |
| 29 | Perhaps it made for a safer relationship if , instead of arguing to a standstill , the party who felt herself misunderstood took her grievance elsewhere and satiated it in transgression . |
| 30 | If he 's not there , perhaps he went for a walk in the grounds ? ’ |