Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pron] [vb past] [adv prt] for " in BNC.

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1 How I got round for the four days of the tournament , I do n't know .
2 Even though they may be working together on contributory problems in the marriage , he still needs to recognise how she hung on for both of them while he was out having a good time .
3 She described how she walked around for months ‘ with a pain , almost a physical pain , in my heart ’ ; of how she avoided friends and pulled her hat over her face if she met them in the street ; of how , at last , she knew she must express her thousand emotions about her little grandchild in the way she knew best , in clay .
4 Jes paid her on Sunday and instead of telling us how they went round for her wages yesterday and he 'd already paid her , and she 'd gone to school with money in her car !
5 but that was sold out until the day when I went in for milk
6 ‘ Anyway , that 's why I waited up for you .
7 ‘ I do n't know why I held out for so long . ’
8 And then they put up a big tent in the Beside the school where you went out for your supper er it was that .
9 He told us that , at the time was unemployed , and within a few days he even gave the date and place where she signed on for unemployment benefit .
10 Through the Sound of Grunay , ever threading through a procession of rock islets and on to the northernmost island of Unst , where we tied up for the night at the little pier in Baltasound .
11 They just had one of those days when everything came off for them .
12 There was no happy return to the Hippy days when they teamed up for the Sixties hit I Got You Babe .
13 Speaking of all things Mexican , our ragga tipping acquaintances SL2 did n't have the best of times when they headed out for a Big Rave in the land of tequila .
14 Everyone made it back to the rendezvous where they laid up for the day , returning in the evening to pick up the SBS group which had managed to deal with the radio station .
15 She 'd slap Steve when he got back for leaving her like this .
16 Juul was undefeated by an opponent in his four scheduled rides although in heat 13 when he came out for an extra race he was disqualified for unfair riding when bringing down Donny Odom and Steve Regeling .
17 The Rothmans Honda team member broke his right leg in five places when he went down for a second time during the opening championship round on a wet Suzuka circuit .
18 Well he used to remind of when he went in for tea and erm and you 'd be lucky !
19 But there was a FOR SALE board up , new today , he had n't seen it there this morning when he set out for the meeting with the AC .
20 He insisted on trying to go it alone and lurched against the bannister where he hung on for dear life .
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