Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] [adv prt] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Our escorting Wellington was delayed due to phenomenal sandstorms in the Delta area , and it was only on 18 March that it arrived and we set off for Benina to refuel before the sea leg to Malta . |
| 32 | The following morning we set off for Verona . |
| 33 | and eventually hauled me aboard as we set off for Blackpool . |
| 34 | We go on for hours . |
| 35 | Couched in the right terms , that seems to fall within the ambit of a Consolidated Fund Bill debate , or one of the Adjournment debates before we go off for Christmas . |
| 36 | Howard meets Phil Schaffer in various pubs , down there in the sea of lights — Phil knows the city intimately already — and they walk round for hours , talking and yawning and doing joky things . |
| 37 | Without my being in any position to know their movements , they stop off for lunch half-way through their trip . |
| 38 | I shall go down to the coffee morning at playschool when they break up for Easter next week |
| 39 | and then when they break up for Easter and it 's only sort of like whatever it is from now until September |
| 40 | They had been visiting friends , they had enjoyed their evening and the time had gone quickly so it was rather late when they set off for home . |
| 41 | They set off for Siwa , arriving on 21 June only to discover that the LRDG was in the process of abandoning the place . |
| 42 | Maggie was not cheerful as they set off for Granada . |
| 43 | My father was thirty-eight , my mother twenty-nine when they married ; a few months later they set off for Addis Ababa . |
| 44 | With a companion in a BN Islander and Spencer in an Aero Commander they set off for Botswana . |
| 45 | HOUNSLOW will be defending an unbeaten record in the European Cup-Winners ' Cup when they set off for Holland today to compete in this season 's final stages . |
| 46 | When they set off for church he set off for London , driving fast . |
| 47 | SIXTH formers are perfecting their accents as they set off for work in the French town of Dunkirk . |
| 48 | Louise kept up a flow of bright chatter as they set off for Wigmore Street . |
| 49 | ‘ Loads of women still expect a man to pay when they go out for dinner . |
| 50 | They stay up for hours watching the Wizard of Oz and Grease 2 again and again on their video upstairs . |
| 51 | ‘ As they strap in for holiday flights , how many people imagine themselves at the controls ? ’ said a Virgin spokesman . |
| 52 | Aloof , distant , stylishly diving for fish , roughly ambushing seals when they come up for air . |
| 53 | so er , cos me heart was in me mouth when they come up for Christmas , and that 's the last time they were up I thought me tree 's gon na go over , you know , I thought if he pulls at me tree or anything , but , he was , he was as good as gold for not , he was n't trying to get me ornaments or anything , he was er , you know , just happy to play with his own toys , so he was n't naughty . |
| 54 | Surely it helped with the welcomes they received all down the river with locals for ever insisting they come in for meals , to stay , to be guests of honour in parties for the whole town , to be driven round and shown the sights and to have their strange English accents listened to . |
| 55 | I think it 's probably worth mentioning on that similar context following Mr 's comments about the false alarms , that the more successful we are at reducing those , the more that impacts on our budget because they take out for S S A , unlike road accidents . |
| 56 | Joan 's just rung see they come over for , all of them come over for dinner every Sunday , and er Joan 's er Andrea 's going out with a crowd of them today she 's in with a nice girl a girl er married and the husband , he 's treats Andrea as if it 's a baby sister , so he 's more or less looking after her which is Joan 's very pleased about |