Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [adv prt] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh you only got up for a coffee ? |
| 2 | Only got in for a few minutes as half the church was there . |
| 3 | The Instruction ( Nakaz ) which Catherine personally drew up for the guidance of the deputies who made up this Commission was a conflation of ideas drawn , with little alteration , from West European writers , particularly Montesquieu and Beccaria . |
| 4 | She did that for half an hour and he only came round for a short time . |
| 5 | I only dropped off for a second . ’ |
| 6 | Only spoke up for the girl . ’ |
| 7 | There was an hour of cleaning and a change of crew before we finally lifted off for the short leg down to Abu Dhabi . |
| 8 | They all just came back for a regular routine follow up , just a little bit late . |
| 9 | Specifically , in the case of Anthony Miers , the Royal Navy submariner who finally came in for a teeny bit of criticism over his methods of disposing of German seamen who rather inconveniently surrendered . |
| 10 | When the cold engine that was the city had coughed and kicked and finally started up for the day , then she 'd set out about her business . |
| 11 | She said oh no I just rang up for a chat . |
| 12 | At the er and they have a band on that night that I just called on for the |
| 13 | It , it , it just went on for a lit a short time afterwards but er , but when the war ended course things , some things changed pretty rapidly as you can appreciate but , but by this time I , I was working for Ellwells then on long distance transport and we used to have to go and fetch tractors or bulldozers that had got armour plating on from Dagenham docks and bring them up here and start selling them to civic contractors and the , the Americans were selling a lot of equipment as well at end of the war , and I saw money made overnight like , people were buying the lorries and putting them on the road you know for work and transport firms and all that and they were getting some of them for next to nothing |
| 14 | " I just looked in for a moment to see how you were getting on together . |
| 15 | Dang and I finally set out for the village where she wanted to start the ‘ cottage industry ’ . |
| 16 | In Budapest , they still strolled around for the sheer pleasure of it . |
| 17 | Well , before mid-afternoon all the men — and extra help always came in for the threshing — were incapable of working . |
| 18 | He usually turned out for the Palace at right-back and was the composed and effective successor to the brilliant Arthur Hudgell , epitomising the honest footballer who would always give of his best for his club whatever the situation . |
| 19 | On Sunday they went up to the common , a performance ; lifting the pram , Emma still insisted on for the sake of Ruth 's spine , into and off the tube , the escalators . |
| 20 | So now he was at a disadvantage , which angered him , and he lost sight of the gratitude he usually summoned up for the stepfather who had spent much of his life obliging his adopted son 's ambition for parents with a big house and a dashing car . |
| 21 | As he hit the water , his legs flailed in the mid-air running motion like a character in a Tom and Jerry cartoon and he quickly struck out for a convenient ladder as I hastily brought Venturous to a standstill some feet off the pier . |
| 22 | Then , proudly and smiling , he slowly walked back for the presentation , his friends dancing round him patting him . |
| 23 | Here and elsewhere , the police also came in for a fair amount of criticism — Punch portrayed London 's genial giants Gog and Magog dressed as policeman , defending themselves from the wrath of the respectable populace — and there were perfectly sound reasons for such discontent . |
| 24 | Fibres also went in for a spot of acquisition , buying into the British texturizing industry to give downstream processing capability . |
| 25 | People from the upper classes were getting on the move , and photography often went along for the ride . |
| 26 | People from the upper classes were getting on the move , and photography often went along for the ride . |
| 27 | ( Derek heartily spoke up for the bitter they pulled , too . ) |
| 28 | She was eighteen and had never been out of England , yet she unhesitatingly set off for a remote and savage country in Africa . |
| 29 | He went hunting in Grasmere , and often stayed on for a party in the evening after a hunt . |
| 30 | Ramsey presumably leant out for a breath of air . |