Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [verb] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is n't this where you line up for the tram coming home from work ? ’ |
| 2 | Where you turn left for Janet 's it was on the right . |
| 3 | Firstly , if you misuse your free will and seek to gain power over another human being or you act falsely for your own gain and let your own desires blind you . |
| 4 | We found a neat village south of Peterlee called Elwick , complete with tree-decked , green , Tabatha Twitchet shop and two super pubs , where we lived uneasily for three years . |
| 5 | In the event I was shown into a small room with Her Majesty , where we sat together for some twenty minutes chatting amiably about almost anything under the sun . |
| 6 | Lawyers , basically , are trained for and used to an adversary system — where they act either for the prosecution or plaintiff , or for the defence — and seem always to see things in terms of guilt or innocence . |
| 7 | Richard and a few followers escaped downstream to Geoffrey de Rancon 's castle at Taillebourg while the bulk of his troops were driven back into the cathedral , where they held out for a few days . |
| 8 | They scream in horrifying agony , and thick gouts of blood spray over anyone in the area as the meats fly with a squelch into roasting-trays on the tables , where they flop about for a few minutes like dying animals . |
| 9 | If the child shows a habit of prolonged crying then instead of expecting him or her to sit there for a long period of time , the first break in crying after a few minutes should be taken by the parent as an opportunity to allow the child to get up . |
| 10 | Noguchi tried in vain to construct an earthwork sculpture at a Japanese-American internment camp where he lived voluntarily for a time during World War II . |
| 11 | Charles reappeared , after half an hour 's absence , and threw himself into an armchair , where he lay back for some time with his eyes shut . |
| 12 | Ockleton described a sweeping circuit of the room , missing all the many obstacles in his path without apparently noticing them , and finished by the window , where he peered out for a full minute or so at the view it commanded of a blank gable-end and half the dome of the Radcliffe Camera . |
| 13 | He was taller by a good inch than when she had last seen him , or he looked so for being noticeably thinner . |
| 14 | Or he stood in for one or other of the teachers , notably Miss Gilberd when she wanted to ‘ pop home ’ , or Mr McWhirter when he failed altogether to arrive . |
| 15 | Not that I cared much for the way he kept them . |
| 16 | That I lived here for many years as a child , that — " |
| 17 | wanting , you know say that I sent away for erm |
| 18 | ‘ It was so late when we finished yesterday that I queued up for 20 minutes for a takeaway hamburger , ’ he said . |
| 19 | I 've got an old Coricidin bottle I keep for the Firebird , and I 've got a beautiful one that I keep specially for ballads ; it 's a really nice hand-blown glass slide , very dense and very smooth , and it 's great for recording subtle kinds of parts on acoustic guitar . ’ |
| 20 | In my own defence I can say only that I went along for the ride , as it were , if you 'll forgive the expression , Mr Milton . ’ |
| 21 | Now that is the size of vans that I use now for light removals . |
| 22 | There were , of course , the inevitable forms to fill in and letters of condolence to answer , but I realized that I had not for a moment , since before the previous Christmas , given a thought to the prospect of life for one . |
| 23 | I could dispense with anything else , everything else , including visits to the tax office which I rarely do except to replace my er brochures and and er things that I send round for information . |
| 24 | There 's nothing that I want though for spare , cos I 've probably got it |
| 25 | And the place is used a lot erm like the local Trade 's Council meet here , and I make sure that I open up for them . |
| 26 | Drivers and conductors had to wait three years , they had to be employed three years before they were accepted into the pension scheme but you know , believe me I 'm glad that I paid in for it . |
| 27 | Not that I am old or likely to fall , not that I have ever for one moment been unsteady on my feet . |
| 28 | I have to confess that I saved up for a portable television before I saved up for a washing machine , but then my priorities may have been different if I had not had a laundrette opposite the front door . |
| 29 | Yeah yeah yeah I had a shilling pocket money and out of that I saved up for a bike . |
| 30 | ‘ It was made in his atelier so I went over for the fittings and in those years I was very sure of myself . |