Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [pron] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
Previous page Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 31 | And if anyone came up and told me off for sleeping on the pavement I 'd say I was the King of England and I can sleep anywhere I like . |
| 32 | Arty laid down his pen and geared himself up for argument . |
| 33 | Of course , this may lead them to run onto the rotted wood , which will give way and let them in for a long fall … |
| 34 | I 've got a continuation shot , well what I shall do is just try and line them up for a rush down to , which is not bad . |
| 35 | Best to sit back and cue him up for the one-liners . |
| 36 | To avoid giving the impression that he had been suckered into coming by US military intelligence , and any reluctance he might feel in consequence to talk freely , Coleman was told to take George home to the family lake house near Auburn , Alabama , and to set him up for questioning by saying that the FBI routinely interviewed all students from the Middle East . |
| 37 | While America goes crazy over its new President elect , CARTER USM are busy making themselves the next most popular thing with the inhabitants of that wacky continent and really should have done the decent thing and put themselves up for election . |
| 38 | No he did n't er P C found some trousers , I 'm not sure where he got them from er and put them on for him . |
| 39 | And I used to take 'em round the pubs and put 'em up for raffles for Christmas . |
| 40 | Why did n't he take that with him and put it in for a minute , for god 's sake . |
| 41 | Unable to meet the huge cost of the highly specialised asbestos de-contamination work then demanded of the entire Pullman set , SLOA agreed to sell the Pullmans to industrialist Sir William McAlpine ( better known to railway enthusiasts as the owner of Flying Scotsman ) and to hire them back for steam-charter use once the asbestos stripping work was complete . |
| 42 | I 'd read the various bits and pieces a couple of times now , looking for something deep and mysterious in it all but not finding anything ; I 'd even done a little research of my own , and discovered through mum that dad had some more of Rory 's papers in his study ; she 'd promised she 'd try and look them out for me . |
| 43 | ‘ Nothing feels right and all I can do is try and work it out for myself . |
| 44 | He went and fetched it up for me . |
| 45 | Go to a pushbike shop they whip them off and whip them on for you you buy , you know , if you go out and buy one then just take wheel with you they 'll stick them straight on . |
| 46 | On return to the farm in the late afternoon there was likely to be a further round of gossip and conversation while grooming the horses and bedding them down for the night . |
| 47 | The frizzy-rugged beaner at the wheel shouted something and threw himself around for a while , but I kept on not not smoking quietly in the back , and nothing happened . |
| 48 | ‘ I hope they catch this cowardly thug and lock him up for a long time . ’ |
| 49 | He used to be a crane driver dear for , yeah he used and I 've got to , one of me sons now is a foreman for , well they 're not now it 's , it 's sort of amal amalgamated with another firm now I think , but he does , he does erm , he 's a foreman like now , he used to be a truck , crane driver and my , the very night that my hubby died on the following Monday he would of been working in Harlow , he got a new crane to take over in Harlow and he 'd been working away from home for weeks and months of the year always away , coming home weekends and I used to have to cook and do his washing and pack him up for going off again Monday morning early , but he never was near home working then , and as I say the night before he went he was , he was gon na work on the Monday to in Old , to Harlow down where the new er place was for and it unfortunately cos he went . |
| 50 | Barron 's case is based mainly on these elements : [ 1 ] Immediately after the crash some members of Gravier 's family came from Mexico City to the site to identify his body and rushed it off for cremation . |
| 51 | The recriminations and angst of an unhappy marriage that reverberated through my head could well have had a self-destructive influence in that lonely , haunting valley and finished me off for good , no doubt . |
| 52 | And holding them up for a little bit of erm laughter . |
| 53 | The local police kindly agreed to come in on the act and a few off-duty policemen pretended to stalk the burglars and locked them up for the night at a disused police station at Ironbridge ! |
| 54 | ‘ If one of his mates got a whack and got hurt he 'd go and sort it out for them . |
| 55 | Our prime purpose is to glorify God in reaching men and women for Christ , building them up in Christ , and sending them out for Christ . |
| 56 | ‘ God may use latent psychic tendencies , ’ writes Canon Stafford Wright , ‘ and draw them out for his purposes . ’ |
| 57 | But his own doctor said he was not fit even for office work and signed him off for another six months because of ‘ obesity and hypertension ’ . |
| 58 | American 's name and address and rang him up for one . |
| 59 | Went and pulled her over for it . |
| 60 | ‘ Well , why do n't you come up and take her out for the day . |