Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I get a bit dizzy lying down on the bench , like I 'm falling backwards and I got to sit up for a bit . |
| 2 | I also made a promise to myself that when I got picked again for a major championship I would progress beyond the first round . |
| 3 | ‘ I bet you never thought you 'd end up as a social accessory whenever you agreed to come here for a holiday ! |
| 4 | Maginnis , and by implication the Official Unionists , were weak and failed to stand up for the common man . |
| 5 | they tried to go out for a meal , I do n't know whether it was christmas day or boxing day down in and they could n't get n in nowhere , I said well you would n't on a boxing day ! |
| 6 | Even though she tried to listen out for the sound of a returning car , the castle and the road leading up to it remained as silent as the grave . |
| 7 | And I tried to save up for a car cos my son was in the army . |
| 8 | ‘ Or maybe I 'm a fruitarian bat , ’ said Marina , laughing , ‘ the one that got turned down for every Drac film because she would n't suck blood . |
| 9 | I think that it was when he got turned down for the job of a bus conductor . |
| 10 | Trouble yeah , trouble I got put off for a fortnight , on the dole , then he , I was on the dole for a week and er he cos at that time you had to appear in front of the erm , what they call the Court of Referees at the Labour Exchange , that was their Committee . |
| 11 | But William 's grandad was too busy working to notice or care , riding shotgun to a great clattering brute of a knitting machine that reminded him of the Irish cobs he 'd broken in for the brewery ; he could knit thirty fully fashioned stockings an hour , sixteen hours a day . |
| 12 | ‘ It all seemed to go on for a long time , but it must have been just a few seconds . ’ |
| 13 | It seemed to go on for a long time . |
| 14 | It seemed to go on for a very long time . |
| 15 | ‘ It seemed to go on for an awfully long time . |
| 16 | At first it was like leaning into a thick , inert sponge , and that seemed to go on for an age . |
| 17 | And then how would I have felt , she asked herself as she hurled the jeep down the motorway , finding that I 'd fallen again for a man as cold and hard as that — finding out when it was too late what he was really like ? |
| 18 | Apparently he 'd rung up for the ride . |
| 19 | A Mum and Dad who 'd known vaguely for a long time that Conor liked holding parties were suddenly being told over cups of tea and Hobnobs about vast acid house raves in the middle of fields , about police chases across whole counties , about an entire organisation that Conor had run ( Conor had run an organisation ? ) , which could call a party and have 5,000 people turning up at £20 a ticket within 48 hours . |
| 20 | They 'd laid in for a siege with dozens of eggs , cans of luncheon meat , and tea . |
| 21 | In one more smooth movement his own shirt was gone , and as she looked at him her naked skin seemed to cry out for the touch of his . |
| 22 | They seemed to stretch back for a very long way and Nuadu , narrowing his eyes , trying to find his bearings , thought that they must go back and back into the hillside behind the road and deep within the earth . |
| 23 | People began throwing suggestions at him , some kindly , some less so , as the same shops came zinging past for the third and fourth times . |
| 24 | how much was n't held until after I 'd gone up for the money for Matthew 's back . |
| 25 | Then they 'd gone in for a look . |
| 26 | She wondered if the others were playing a joke on her : perhaps they 'd gone out for a walk ; perhaps , at this very moment , they were laughing at the thought of her waiting for a killer who would never come . |
| 27 | I had this octopus once in Germany and it , we 'd gone out for a meal and I was gon na have steak and mushrooms and |
| 28 | I assaulted this position from every angle , ranging from thoughtful analyses of the male mid-life crisis , its nature and origins , to sweeping ad absurdum dismissals in which I demonstrated that by the same token Trish and Brian were equally culpable , because if they 'd gone out for the day I would have stayed at home and we would never have met in the first place . |
| 29 | It hardly seemed to augur well for the firm 's chances when it goes head-to head with the likes of Brown Boveri ASEA or GEC Alsthom . |
| 30 | It seemed to ring out for a long time . |