Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adv prt] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I came round for coffee . |
| 2 | I came up for air . |
| 3 | I could still run , so I turned up for football training and things have gone on from there . |
| 4 | the end of the last straw you see , so I went in the Co-Op and I felt really , really fed up , I said I oh I said I could cry I said because I 've tried so hard I said not for lending you money I said , I 'm not meant to have any sodding luck so got a couple of bits and I really could n't get me act together and on the Tuesday dad 's gone in hospital with that fit , so I was thinking of him a lot and I thought I do n't know dad , you know I 'm sure , I 'm sure that he were n't gon na come out when he went in there , I thought they were gon na bloody find something with you boy and that would be it , so I come home here and I ai n't done no work , so I started off for work , both sitting here bloody bawling cos this house looked like shit , spoke to me sister on the phone and er I felt a bit better so I thought oh I 'd start doing the tree , so I pulled it all to bits in here , got the polish and duster out , put all the bread and everything for Alan 's sandwiches , it 'd be about oh , about half past twelve and the bloody phone went it was mum , she said Lyn do you think you can come up to the hospital with me , cos I 've got no transport and so I said what 's up then mum ? |
| 5 | Twice I forked out for cable car rides up the Stock Mountain where there are more langlauf tracks and ample space to make your own . |
| 6 | A tricky wind was blowing on to the anchorage and what with snakes and the prospect of getting wet I lay off for lunch . |
| 7 | Oh there was quite a few pas when I past I went up for paper but I did n't call in and vote , you know , |
| 8 | I went out for lunch and left the speech in the back of a taxi . |
| 9 | but that was sold out until the day when I went in for milk |
| 10 | But you see , you get a lot of these courses and , I went in for reflexology , I went on a lovely |
| 11 | When I went in for medicine I had the feeling that maybe I would take out an appendix on the kitchen table … now this has been a big disappointment of my life as a GP that whatever I can do , there 's someone else who can do much , much better . |
| 12 | I sent off for mine last week — I 'm sort of hoping that they wo n't have posted them yet so it may be worth ringing up to try and cancel . |
| 13 | With that , Taff started digging while I searched around for timber to place over the trench . |
| 14 | He even made a pot of tea and poured her a cup when she got up for work . |
| 15 | So you , you came up for retirement what in nineteen |
| 16 | She came round for dinner one evening . |
| 17 | ‘ I have to go out today , ’ Fernando told her when she came down for breakfast on the terrace the next morning . |
| 18 | Josie found her when she turned in for work at the club that evening . |
| 19 | He told us that , at the time was unemployed , and within a few days he even gave the date and place where she signed on for unemployment benefit . |
| 20 | In spite of her bulk she moved swiftly to grab the instrument , and she stepped back for fear it should be taken from her again . |
| 21 | You signed up for tennis lessons ( out comes the shorty tennis skirt , a volley of wolf-whistles from the labourers outside , and off to the courts where the horrid male instructor drills you as if you 're in the Green Berets ) . |
| 22 | " So you went out for air . " |
| 23 | you went out for lunch on er Tuesday , you went to Eldon Square and you had your lunch there |
| 24 | She looked round for approbation at this feat of memory but there was none . |
| 25 | She looked round for support . |
| 26 | Yeah she slept in for work again . |
| 27 | ‘ They were always holding hands and he kissed her goodbye every day as she set off for work . ’ |
| 28 | If Bully was in the front garden when she set out for Pack Meeting , he would leap the gate and bound up to her , putting his great front paws against her chest , and barking at her . |
| 29 | At the end of one particularly difficult morning surgery , she sat down for coffee with a long sigh of relief . |
| 30 | An Italian , Gionesca , was absent from parade one morning as we lined up for inspection by the Sergeant-Major ; Corporal Herve , a scarred Frenchman who had taken over from Vigno as duty NCO , went upstairs to find him . |