Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Type Report on Yugoslav Spitfires by Peter Arnold in the April issue ( p70 ) evoked many memories for me and caused me to rummage around for some half-forgotten photos of nearly half a century ago , and there it was , Mk VcJK808 ‘ B ’ with yours truly in attendance . |
| 2 | When the time comes an' I ca n't lift a hundredweight of sugar or me old black pan , then it 'll be time for me to retire upstairs for good . ’ |
| 3 | Gooch , manager Keith Fletcher and England chairman Ted Dexter all praised the Whittingdale sponsorship which has allowed them to gather together for two days in each of the last six weeks . |
| 4 | The nicest thing about Duckhurst Farm 's clear round afternoons is the atmosphere : they are meant to encourage horse and rider and the owners were happy for me to trot round for five minutes before we faced the first fence . |
| 5 | The wife and daughter were usually silent , but Service and I made up for that . |
| 6 | You can have yours checked out for free on Sunday at Halfords in Durham , in a session organised by Halfords and What Car ? magazine . |
| 7 | I mean obviously for thirty |
| 8 | That I lived here for many years as a child , that — " |
| 9 | ‘ I lived here for three years , if you want to be precise . ’ |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | I lived there for eighteen months with someone I thought I loved , indeed who I did , do , no , did love . ’ |
| 12 | I lay there for many hours , but at last I fell asleep , and in my small , helpless boat , dreamed of home and the Admiral Benbow . |
| 13 | And we pre-process the data as I say commonly for all the neurons before we present it to our three neurons . |
| 14 | I phoned down for some eggs , toast and a quart of coffee . |
| 15 | There 's nothing that I want though for spare , cos I 've probably got it |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It turns on to its side and as I cling on for dear life I hear a startled cry from Nathan . |
| 18 | ‘ I came here for some answers . |
| 19 | Hateley baffled and upset by the affair says : ‘ I came in for that one game , and I thought I did reasonably well . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . |
| 21 | Shall I send off for that ? |
| 22 | So I put in for that and I got that . |
| 23 | So anyway I put in for this job and and there were people who who ought to have got it before me , er for instance er there was a councillor at er at , Tom , did you know Tom ? |
| 24 | ‘ But I hope not for two weeks — and then with any luck not on a Friday , or I may have to ask Doctor Masters to deputise for me . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ It 's what I hang around for all day , ’ said the poet , ‘ when your mother is doing something useful . ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ I know not for sure . |
| 28 | I slow down for some cows and greet many people but I do n't usually have to stop now , even for elders . |
| 29 | I stuck around for another seven years for the children 's sake but it was very unsatisfactory . |
| 30 | I served there for thirteen year , became a chargehand eventually and eventually the f the firm folded up . |