Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [verb] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , if some italian club comes in for Macca at say 4M ( a definate possibility ) , and/or someone come in for Speed at say 3.5M , well have no fucking team left . |
| 2 | So , if some italian club comes in for Macca at say 4M ( a definate possibility ) , and/or someone come in for Speed at say 3.5M , well have no fucking team left . |
| 3 | A feature of such stories is their selectivity , for they omit to mention the number of part-time reserve police who are unemployed or in low-status employment , or who sign up for mercenary reasons or for the power and respect that they believe accompanies the uniform . |
| 4 | Damn Sir Edmund Pusey — he probably knew more about it than he had let on , regarding it as better for my soul or something to find out for myself . |
| 5 | Or he stood in for one or other of the teachers , notably Miss Gilberd when she wanted to ‘ pop home ’ , or Mr McWhirter when he failed altogether to arrive . |
| 6 | I could n't let this frail old man go In there and maybe get knocked down and savaged , and I looked around for a means of protection . |
| 7 | We rode a little , walked , talked , played cards in the evening and I looked out for Poppy . |
| 8 | Eventually Jim 's old caddie came out of the woodwork again and I carried on for one or two other pros . |
| 9 | The wife and daughter were usually silent , but Service and I made up for that . |
| 10 | There 's rows of benches in front of it and I sit down for a bit to look at the tree . |
| 11 | I feel much better when I 'm back on the platform , and I sit down for a breather . |
| 12 | I think the rain and I went on for about three hours . |
| 13 | Kathleen and I went off for some lunch and we then went to have a look at the castle . |
| 14 | Eventually the dinner broke up and Claud , Roger Hollis and I went off for a pub-crawl which after sundry indecorous adventures ended up at the Hypocrites where another blind was going on . |
| 15 | Amy and I went out for the day . |
| 16 | But then I thought , ‘ I 'll show him , ’ and I went in for the Pub Entertainer of the Year contest . |
| 17 | ‘ I had a cartilage operation three and a half years ago , and I went in for a tackle just before Christmas and damaged it again . |
| 18 | When Kalchu and I set out for the headman 's house several mornings later it was bitterly cold . |
| 19 | Anyway , being in the fortunate position to be able to drive along the road to Corrour , although my car suspension did n't agree it was so fortunate , a companion and I set off for the first peak , Beinn Eibhinn from halfway along the road , above the river Ghuilbinn . |
| 20 | ‘ On March 19 and I set off for Birmingham and a hotel close to the airport . |
| 21 | The next morning he had left us to rejoin his regiment , even before Granpa and I started out for the market . |
| 22 | And I make sure that I 'm here and I open up for them , and I make them a cup of tea . |
| 23 | We had a very impromptu meal which was brought out from somewhere near Bahrain because our landing area was in a small offshore sand strip where the Nos 55 and 84 Squadron aircraft ( also a Valentia from No 70 Squadron , which was our support aircraft ) were all based overnight and I went to sleep in this hot and humid place , The humidity factor at Bahrain was very high indeed , in the 90s , but I went to sleep quite comfortably on a groundsheet having dug a little hole for my not very considerable hips , weighing very little above 9 stone , and I settled down for the night . |
| 24 | My hat ai n't on my head , and I look round for it . |
| 25 | We sailed into a murky , airless dawn veiled by the thin drizzle of a Scotch Mist , and I turned in for a few hours . |
| 26 | School taught me how to read early , and I found out for myself how to do it fast . |
| 27 | And nobody turned up for it . |
| 28 | ‘ And you came along for the ride ? ’ |
| 29 | ‘ And you watch out for the royal governess ! ’ |
| 30 | Thus Jasper 's father might have been the man who was painting the flats and who came in for a cup of tea , or the old lover whom she happened to run into in Denmark Hill , or the neighbour who was moving out of Flat 16 and who came up to say goodbye while his girlfriend was packing their furniture into the rented van . |