Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [vb past] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Richard and a few followers escaped downstream to Geoffrey de Rancon 's castle at Taillebourg while the bulk of his troops were driven back into the cathedral , where they held out for a few days . |
| 2 | Charles reappeared , after half an hour 's absence , and threw himself into an armchair , where he lay back for some time with his eyes shut . |
| 3 | Ockleton described a sweeping circuit of the room , missing all the many obstacles in his path without apparently noticing them , and finished by the window , where he peered out for a full minute or so at the view it commanded of a blank gable-end and half the dome of the Radcliffe Camera . |
| 4 | ‘ It was made in his atelier so I went over for the fittings and in those years I was very sure of myself . |
| 5 | It went on and on until I was nearly frantic , so I went out for the evening several times in one week to release the tension . |
| 6 | The producer , a blase+ young woman , toyed with a lettuce leaf and an olive , but on the rare occasions I am asked out to lunch I generally do without breakfast , so I made up for her and discussed the shooting schedule ( you soon pick up the jargon ) with the director . |
| 7 | About eighty villagers followed me inside , and waited expectantly … so I struck out for the hinterlands . |
| 8 | I could still run , so I turned up for football training and things have gone on from there . |
| 9 | Mr Whinnett said : ‘ Joanna was in a state of pure terror and , although she sat down for a while , she most certainly did not sleep . ’ |
| 10 | " So you went out for air . " |
| 11 | Obviously , at the moment we 're not publicly pointing the finger at your five chums , so we went in for blanket forensic tests on everyone and examination of everyone 's quarters . ’ |
| 12 | She wanted a child , so we signed up for the eugenics lottery . |
| 13 | Two cyclists seemed fair game to these pissed idiots so we took off for the hills , only a small range but , we were to discover , quite beautiful . |
| 14 | The driver 's home was en route so we stopped off for mint tea there . |
| 15 | We were cooking for ourselves so we settled in for the evening and made ourselves comfortable . |
| 16 | Donal Lunny came down , and Gerry O'Beirne and Mary Custy and Eoin O'Neill , my sister Mary , and Adam Calyton , Mike Scott and Steve Wickham had been over in Spiddal at the time , working with John , so they came over for the crack . |
| 17 | Pilots were to be Russ Boardman and Lee Gehlbach , but Boardman was injured prior to the race and Doolittle found he had no mount ( his landing gear had jammed ) , so he took over for the Thompson . |
| 18 | You see , Father , ’ Corbett continued , ‘ some time ago Monsieur de Craon tried to gain access to Godstowe and was refused , so he looked around for someone to keep him appraised of developments at the priory , particularly Lady Eleanor 's movements . |
| 19 | He found it incredibly rewarding and had a couple of momentous experiences of such excitement that he tried to recreate the excitement instead of going back to what caused it ( the old Orgasmic-Goal orientation — see Dr Ruth , pages 12 to 461 ) , so he gave up for a few years . |
| 20 | Now once he got in for his half , half pint in , in the in the passage he 'd have , he 'd have a good swig and , and it was about when he 'd got to bottom of the glass put it down . |
| 21 | Well I do n't know , there are such good Japanese coupes now , you know you see these lovely Toyotas and Nissans that they do the sort of two plus two and they 're really lovely cars and but if I change c car this next year I 'll still have to have four seater or , you know , plenty of room in the boot so I can pick you up from Haileybury and all that crap , but if I hung on for another two years I could then get something I actually wanted , you know . |
| 22 | " I think it would be better if I worked through for the rest of today . |
| 23 | She had had no life of her own for several years ; if she went out for half an hour , she had to leave messages all round the flat , telling Yury she 'd be back soon , otherwise he would panic . |
| 24 | Now if you went out for a ferry , you 'd have one of us guarding the stereo one person on that . |
| 25 | Jelly babies , dolly mixtures , love hearts that said ‘ Kiss me quick ’ , and if you saved up for two weeks you could buy a whipped cream walnut . |
| 26 | They 're all gon na be pissed on Friday cos we got in for nothing ! |
| 27 | All three of us if we went up for a weekend . |
| 28 | I think , if we went on for another half an hour or forty five minutes , we could clear virtually everything . |
| 29 | It might be needed if they went out for the day . |
| 30 | But typewriters we had problems with because , if they went in for repair , you never got them back from the Ordinance Core , and so at one place in Tunbridge Wells we handed a typewriter in and because the army were allowed to buy greaseproof paper , we bought a lot of greaseproof paper which came in the package of a new typewriter . |