Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [verb] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The alarm was raised by a cook who arrived for work as normal but Mrs Johnstone failed to open up for lunch-time business . |
| 2 | We were in Glasgow last weekend , and were quite chuffed when Ewan consented to come out for a walk just with us two , as he clings to Joyce a bit at the moment . |
| 3 | Edward appeared to think hard for a few moments and then got up and left the room abruptly . |
| 4 | He looked exactly the same except for his hair , which Hari had shaved off for his experiments and which had now grown into a furry black stubble through which the numbered segments of his skull could still be faintly perceived . |
| 5 | True to his brother 's word , David had gone straight for the fish cakes . |
| 6 | Edward continued to stand there for another minute or two . |
| 7 | Delegates from the United States had lobbied hard for the ICIFI to be affiliated . |
| 8 | Under the high side there was a grey Buick that I had seen Harvey driving and a long black Lincoln Continental that looked like the President of the United States had come over for pizza and beer . |
| 9 | In my talk I mentioned a number of specific things that Scott had brought about for Scotland as the result of his friendship with George IV . |
| 10 | Wright had made up for his 99 at Christchurch by pulling Lawrence joyously for successive boundaries to reach three figures , and Jones , having scored his first Test century against England , looked hungry for more . |
| 11 | Toby had come back for the moment . |
| 12 | Flora had gone straight to bed and though Richard had stayed up for supper , he had been too worn out to eat much . |
| 13 | On his earlier journey across the mountains Giles had looked out for landmarks — a waterfall , an old tree , a small lake . |
| 14 | John Jeffrey had charged over for Kelso 's try with Graeme Aitchison converting and adding a penalty . |
| 15 | Maggie had done well for herself . |
| 16 | It was dusk , and the evening was as still and airless as the previous one when , impatient for news , Zen had gone out for a stroll . |
| 17 | In the evenings , after Granpa had come home for supper and the old man had gone off to the pub , I soon became bored just sitting around listening to what my sisters had been up to all day ; so I joined the Whitechapel Boys ' Club . |
| 18 | IT WAS THE SUMMER HOLIDAYS AND ANTHONY HAD COME HOME FOR good , or rather until he found a job . |
| 19 | Picton-Howell had worked hard for the project since the early days , and had kept her old job as London office administrator on Equal Opportunities grounds that the post should not be put out to competitive interview after capitalization . |
| 20 | ‘ Querida , ’ he had murmured in her ear , and Ruth had waited breathlessly for the words she hoped to hear — that she meant something to him , that he needed her , that he wanted to love her . |
| 21 | Ordinarily she would have relished the variety which the creators of Moloch had offered up for her pleasure without a qualm or a second thought , but this time something was getting to her , making her nervous . |
| 22 | Mary and Reggie had gone away for the weekend , and would not be back until evening . |
| 23 | Donleavy tried to make up for it later by arranging a champagne thank-you weekend for the Colemans at the DIA 's expense in an exclusive little Georgetown hotel , but by then they were almost too tired to enjoy it . |
| 24 | Mrs Diggory looked taken aback for a moment , but she took the hand and then ushered the lady inside , talking all the while . |
| 25 | Kate managed to persuade one of the drivers of the hire cars Carlisle Flint had laid on for sponsors to drop her back to the hotel where the team were based . |
| 26 | That caveat notwithstanding , those close to Mr Bush insist that there was an effort to get a non-military solution , and that if Saddam Hussein had reached out for it he could have walked away from Kuwait with something gained from his adventure . |
| 27 | If the literary establishment had thought to compare notes they would have realized that every male aura on and off Fleet Street had come in for a bashing . |
| 28 | Two of the walls were covered with his drawings and paintings and on one wall were shelves that Tom had fixed up for his clothes and treasures . |
| 29 | The figure remained absolutely still among the little birch trees and right in the path Stephen had mapped out for himself to take . |
| 30 | A Teesside inquest heard how Wayne had gone out for a spin in the W-reg white Ford Escort with four pals in November last year . |