Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pers pn] [vb past] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bubbling song of whimbrel mingled with the excited yelping of breeding redshank could be heard whenever we stopped for a break . |
| 2 | DeVore who had arranged the deal whereby he worked for the Levers and yet had his own private laboratories . |
| 3 | How I longed for a Smith & Wesson . |
| 4 | How I longed for the ruler to point to me ! |
| 5 | How she longed for the excitement of blasting away slimy aliens . |
| 6 | Alison Berry describes how she cared for a patient with a difficult leg wound in the community |
| 7 | When it comes to neck shaping and so on , it is best to decrease the stitches back to the original number , by , for example , taking eight stitches back to four stitches if that is how you increased for the cable before shaping . |
| 8 | Now we could n't have him in this year to give the others a chance so this is how you voted for the nineteen ninety three racing personality of the year on Channel Four and let's take it in reverse order starting with the person who finished fourth . |
| 9 | No doubt the privies , there were two of them , were much appreciated by the tenants , but one wonders how they managed for the previous two or three years . |
| 10 | How they worked for the dissidents , raised money , edited a Ukrainian language broadsheet . |
| 11 | ‘ And that 's how it stayed for a long , long time . |
| 12 | He saw the calculation at the back of Weis 's eyes that greeted his comment — saw how he looked for a trap in every word of his — and smiled inwardly . |
| 13 | It was when I went for a walk to our old camp . |
| 14 | This was when I learnt for the first time how experts conducted dealing for Jim came from a family of dealers . |
| 15 | ‘ The things I 've seen in them vats when I worked for the brewery . ’ |
| 16 | In Los Angeles , where I lectured for a living , I pursued my fascination for the harmonic patterns and golden-mean ratios which run so consistently through the sacred art , music and architecture of both Western and oriental mystical traditions . |
| 17 | ‘ You have n't even asked me directly why I went for a walk with Flo this evening , for instance . |
| 18 | They 're not tight , that 's why I went for a one cos I thought it 's like a trainer in n it ? |
| 19 | Erm which is why I went for the downstairs cos I had a choice of either . |
| 20 | RUNAWAY teenager Nicola Rogers told today why she headed for the bright lights of Blackpool after leaving her home 100 miles away four days ago . |
| 21 | Lowe was twelve when she married for the third time — to a psychologist — and he arrived , all corn-fed and terminally uncool , in Malibu . |
| 22 | Farrelly met Sinead when she advertised for a band in an Irish music paper . |
| 23 | Jo Durie , Britain 's No. 1 ranked player , delivered an honest assessment of the needs of aspiring young tennis champions when she called for the pressure to be taken off youngsters , particularly those between the crucial ages of 10–14 . |
| 24 | ‘ And that 's presumably when you went for a smoke on the roof ? ’ |
| 25 | well you did n't put your coat on the other day when you went for the paper |
| 26 | It was the kind of place where you waited for a bus that never came . |
| 27 | She was lifted out of her perch above the engine and made for the customs shed where she asked for a mirror so that she could restore order to her wrecked coiffure before she went into Paris . |
| 28 | Miranda fled , unseeing down the dark passage to the lavatory where she sat for a very long time feeling sick to her stomach . |
| 29 | The closest I ever got to you was when we went for a spin on your motor bike , with me like a ravished flapper on the pillion , legitimately clinging to your lissom waist , to those two wonderful hip-bones I loved to hold , as if they were the very hinges of heaven , whose wind blew your hair back into my ecstatic face : |
| 30 | She 'd been with us for a year when we went for a day 's walk in the country . |