Example sentences of "i [verb] [adv prt] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No , David asked me to go back for coffee but I refused . ’ |
| 2 | Helen was worse than me , I got up for Neighbours , I mean , she was really dead . |
| 3 | I could dispense with anything else , everything else , including visits to the tax office which I rarely do except to replace my er brochures and and er things that I send round for information . |
| 4 | Well as I stop by for training , look for something along our side if we choose is there ? |
| 5 | When I came round for coffee . |
| 6 | I came up for air . |
| 7 | I put up for sale the service areas on new long leases , retaining some controls only to ensure that the areas were safe stopping places for motorway travellers . |
| 8 | They accost me in the street every time I walk every time I walk down for money , they 're |
| 9 | I could still run , so I turned up for football training and things have gone on from there . |
| 10 | I turned out for North Melbourne in 1948–49 , but for some reason was not selected for Victoria . |
| 11 | I 'll admit it was a weak-sister thing to say , but why should I stick up for Russell ? |
| 12 | ‘ On March 19 and I set off for Birmingham and a hotel close to the airport . |
| 13 | After dropping Martin and Lucy off at Vidlin , I set off for home . |
| 14 | Everyone knows that in fact you can get organised — so — leaving the family , animals and business I set off for Avery Hill College . |
| 15 | I set off for Duxford cursing . |
| 16 | The day after I got back from Moscow , I set out for Philadelphia , where I was due to receive a medal from the Franklin Institute . |
| 17 | ‘ We made ourselves some ro is , and when we 'd eaten them , I set out for home . |
| 18 | On 9 November 1984 I set out for consultation a list of branded drugs which would no longer be prescribed under the health service . |
| 19 | I hung on for ages . ’ |
| 20 | the end of the last straw you see , so I went in the Co-Op and I felt really , really fed up , I said I oh I said I could cry I said because I 've tried so hard I said not for lending you money I said , I 'm not meant to have any sodding luck so got a couple of bits and I really could n't get me act together and on the Tuesday dad 's gone in hospital with that fit , so I was thinking of him a lot and I thought I do n't know dad , you know I 'm sure , I 'm sure that he were n't gon na come out when he went in there , I thought they were gon na bloody find something with you boy and that would be it , so I come home here and I ai n't done no work , so I started off for work , both sitting here bloody bawling cos this house looked like shit , spoke to me sister on the phone and er I felt a bit better so I thought oh I 'd start doing the tree , so I pulled it all to bits in here , got the polish and duster out , put all the bread and everything for Alan 's sandwiches , it 'd be about oh , about half past twelve and the bloody phone went it was mum , she said Lyn do you think you can come up to the hospital with me , cos I 've got no transport and so I said what 's up then mum ? |
| 21 | I looked around for Kalchu and eventually found him on the far side of the fire talking to a group of men , some of whom I recognized as being from Chaura and from Chhuma . |
| 22 | We rode a little , walked , talked , played cards in the evening and I looked out for Poppy . |
| 23 | Twice I forked out for cable car rides up the Stock Mountain where there are more langlauf tracks and ample space to make your own . |
| 24 | A tricky wind was blowing on to the anchorage and what with snakes and the prospect of getting wet I lay off for lunch . |
| 25 | I turn up for staff meals but I do n't really eat at them because young Pooley is so guilty about what he 's condemned me to that he keeps on having parcels of goodies delivered . |
| 26 | And he confessed yesterday : ‘ I go back for seconds and thirds . ’ |
| 27 | Oh there was quite a few pas when I past I went up for paper but I did n't call in and vote , you know , |
| 28 | I went out for lunch and left the speech in the back of a taxi . |
| 29 | but that was sold out until the day when I went in for milk |
| 30 | But you see , you get a lot of these courses and , I went in for reflexology , I went on a lovely |