Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [adv prt] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nobody visited them in the evenings or dropped in for a chat during the day , except in the way of business — to sell wood to Uncle Philip or to arrange a booking for Francie and his fiddle . |
| 2 | As with all guitar noise problems , this effect is most prevalent when the amp is very loud , or set up for an overdrive sound . |
| 3 | Our enthusiasm for getting afloat was an overriding factor — that part of the job remained the same and made up for a lot of hassle . |
| 4 | He was careful , shrewd , and thoroughly able , and made up for the collapse of the older coastal trades by sending his ships farther afield . |
| 5 | But he recovered his balance in a stride and made off for the water jump . |
| 6 | Zipped up the inside , and with a squared off toe , it was the last word in futuristic chic that was to be adapted and toned down for the mass market . |
| 7 | By the time you 've finished , if you are n't the best of mates and invited down for a vair long weekend in the cuntrair , I can only say — Air nair . |
| 8 | He called a sudden halt to his crowded agenda at lunchtime and crashed out for a few hours in the adjacent chamber , throwing the timetable into disarray . |
| 9 | One official wrote that the missing cattle ‘ have probably been driven off some distance by some of the bolder spirits of the village , and hired out for the season to some not over-scrupulous cultivator , with instructions to let them go loose when done with . |
| 10 | OTHERS have preferred to select the right machine for the duty and ground conditions and hired in for the job . |
| 11 | The first attempt was almost a disaster , but he got the plane up again and came round for a second shot . |
| 12 | When we sat down for our sandwiches , I made him go away with the grisly thing , but we could still hear him crunching away behind a rock — first a crunch then a cough as he swallowed a feather , then another crunch then more coughs until he realised there was no future in it and came round for a sandwich . |
| 13 | When I was driving my new Granada in 1989 and dropped a friend down the road , a police car came past , saw the car with a black man driving it , circled round and came back for a second check . |
| 14 | ‘ An alternative theory is that the killer knocked him out first , then went into the washroom to strip and came back for the final throat-cutting before Berowne had a chance to come round . |
| 15 | We actually got the rigging up and sailed around for a while in twos — I was with my brother and I thought we managed quite well . |
| 16 | She looked up and waved as the Golf drove past and when Melissa had put it away and locked the garage door , she rammed her fork into the ground and strolled over for a chat . |
| 17 | Hard to feel sorry for the laird , who would have watched the sweating workers from his window , hands in pockets , listening for the doorbell in case the king changed his mind and dropped in for a scone . |
| 18 | BIGGLES pilot Anthony West coolly landed his vintage Tiger Moth biplane right outside a secluded country pub — and swaggered in for a pint . |
| 19 | Having selected your water and turned up for a day 's fishing you then have to decide where the fish will be on the day in question . |
| 20 | Contentedly I went below and turned in for a few hours , leaving my colleague to navigate . |
| 21 | So I got off and walked around for an hour or so , unseeing , my mind a total blank . |
| 22 | She unstrapped the harness , and glanced around for a spot to hide the acres of silk canopy . |
| 23 | However , he was not thrown out , he was taken back to the station and locked up for the night . |
| 24 | I gritted my teeth and hung on for the climb up to Ana 's Cross on the peak of Spaunton Moor . |
| 25 | So the mantle fell on the second son , John , then 23 years old ; without more ado , he set off over the bridge into the Market Place , across to the George , and signed up for the infantry . |
| 26 | John Titford responded to the call and signed up for the Volunteer Infantry . |
| 27 | I got hold of him by the scruff of the neck and took him along to the police box and rang up for the wagon . |
| 28 | Without difficulty I found a Bed and Breakfast house , equally smart and highly polished , and settled down for a pre-exploratory nap . |
| 29 | A band played and onlookers waved and cheered as men , women and children wedged themselves into the tub carriages and settled down for a good day out . |
| 30 | I set the alarm clock for a quarter to midnight , and settled down for a couple of hours sleep . |