Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [verb] [pron] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | He winced as she dabbed disinfectant on the cut and covered it up for him . |
| 2 | But his own doctor said he was not fit even for office work and signed him off for another six months because of ‘ obesity and hypertension ’ . |
| 3 | Two o'clock and I always used to leave work and take him out for an hour . |
| 4 | To his surprise , Molly threw away the dregs of tea in her beaker and held it out for him to fill with the frothing liquor . |
| 5 | The bunkers ate into the fairway at around the 240-yard mark to cool the aggressive ardour of the professional golfer who might try to cut the slight dogleg and set himself up for an easier shot into the two-tier green . |
| 6 | ‘ I developed the pin curl looks about two years ago and have since changed the technique by dressing the hair more with back-combing and pinning it up for a more avant-garde finish . |
| 7 | Arty laid down his pen and geared himself up for argument . |
| 8 | Pulling the centre-half back left a gap in midfield which needed a link man to pick up passes from defence and lay them on for the forwards . |
| 9 | Fallon still had a bit of work to do , even then , but he had already bumped off Perrins and Hannaford with one uncompromising run and this time his strength buried the rest of the Gloucester defence and took him over for a try in the corner . |
| 10 | We 'll leave the Ramsey lad and have you along for guide . ’ |
| 11 | So I wrote to the Warden of Spurn Bird Observatory and booked myself in for a night . |
| 12 | ‘ He rang me up that same evening and asked me out for a drink . ’ |
| 13 | Barron 's case is based mainly on these elements : [ 1 ] Immediately after the crash some members of Gravier 's family came from Mexico City to the site to identify his body and rushed it off for cremation . |
| 14 | A major offensive was launched on Aug. 22 in an attempt to relieve the siege , after the government had abandoned its earlier suggestion that it might evacuate the fort and turn it over for use by the International Red Cross . |
| 15 | And if it was just exhausted , it was simply a question of postponing his own ploughing and resting it up for a day or two until it had regained its appetite and its strength . |
| 16 | He 's the chap who knocks on your door at unholy hours of the morning and invites himself in for a Big Breakfast . |
| 17 | A spokesperson will then either transition the module into a conceptually approved state or hold it back for further work before approval . |
| 18 | American 's name and address and rang him up for one . |
| 19 | An exhausted Anabelle ambled to the gate and squeezed herself under for the last time . |
| 20 | Indeed , Mr Pocklington and his ilk would take small cannon onto a suitable lake and fire them off for the edification of the plumber partridges who came to nest in the district . |
| 21 | The recriminations and angst of an unhappy marriage that reverberated through my head could well have had a self-destructive influence in that lonely , haunting valley and finished me off for good , no doubt . |
| 22 | However , a husband has no other relationship that he is told to love as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her . |
| 23 | ‘ Husbands , love your wives , just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her ’ ( 5:25 ) . |
| 24 | As the tale is told , it was our historical imperial taste that set us up for our indulgent role in the money boom of the last 30 years . |
| 25 | While America goes crazy over its new President elect , CARTER USM are busy making themselves the next most popular thing with the inhabitants of that wacky continent and really should have done the decent thing and put themselves up for election . |
| 26 | ‘ I hope they catch this cowardly thug and lock him up for a long time . ’ |
| 27 | Perhaps he thought that if he made a success of the concert party , word would get around amongst show business that here was someone to keep an eye on , and his big chance might come ; that someone important in the music world might come up to him with a contract in his hand and sign him up for the next ten years as a successor to Sir Malcolm Sargeant . |
| 28 | He turned to reach down her fleecy cream jacket from the stand in the corner and held it out for her . |
| 29 | Edberg stamped his world class authority on the match , dominating the 90 minute final and setting himself up for the defence of his Wimbledon title . |
| 30 | He hurried the will into proper form and brought it down for signature . |