Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [verb] [adv] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the the people I met made up for that . |
| 2 | I 'd tried hard for many years to get him to stop , in the face of informed professional opinion , but he had always shrugged it off . |
| 3 | He was a good journalist and one I 'd known professionally for many years . |
| 4 | ‘ So , I started looking around for another job and heard that Mike Martinez , the agent , was looking for someone to do some secretarial work and some negotiating , and that he preferred English girls for such work . |
| 5 | I can count the number of trout that I have taken from this lovely loch on the fingers of one hand and blank days are the rule , but I keep going back for more . |
| 6 | So then I had to put in for another grant because he 'd smashed every damn thing . |
| 7 | " I had to go away for several days and while I was gone your mother saw some papers in Devraux 's desk . |
| 8 | erm and I 've sent off for some loose fitting ones |
| 9 | Now for the that out and I 'll see what I 've written down for this Oh yeah er see Sue lost it erm well it 's a canine meaning , you know , the rose erm the dog rose . |
| 10 | an used to be called metermarism and I say , it 's not a word it 's not a term I 've seen on for many many years and you do n't seen it many erm modern organic texts . |
| 11 | I 've worked hard for this house over the past three years . |
| 12 | I have to put him into kennels tomorrow as I have to go away for some time and they insist that he be fully vaccinated . ’ |
| 13 | This fascinating story is one of many such in Roger Lonsdale 's anthology of Eighteenth-Century Women Poets , not just a marvellous piece of scholarship but as richly entertaining and original a book as I have come across for some time . |
| 14 | The sergeant looked at her closely , obviously wondering if she planned to run off for some reason . |
| 15 | " You want to look out for those , " he said . |
| 16 | She has waited patiently for this ending . ’ |
| 17 | She 'd saved up for many months . |
| 18 | Are you coming to sit down for this meal ? |
| 19 | Mm , you sent sent off for all your |
| 20 | Have there been any developments on the guitar synth front which you 've taken up for this album ? |
| 21 | She had saved up for such a long time and did n't want to carry a load of coins around . |
| 22 | She had lived there for some time although it is not known where she lived before coming to Darlington . |
| 23 | Serving great forces was not what she had signed up for this trip , but somehow it felt right . |
| 24 | The first person she had opened up for that morning had been the postman at five past eight . |
| 25 | You had to go ashore for that . |
| 26 | What , well , we had a very large sitting dining room where we put er our dining room furniture at one end and as , the sitting room furniture at the other , it was very large actually , a Nissan hut does n't look very big , but it is quite big and we had one large bedroom where we got all our furniture in there and then there was er a kitchen , and there was an Elsan lavatory in the garden which er you had to go outside for that , and er , we bought a full length galvanized bath like an ordinary bath upstairs and there was a boiler in the kitchen so we used to light the fire of the boiler , fill the boiler with water from the tap , we had a , oh we had all sorts of er innovations that made life easy as could be in the circumstances , we had er hose pipe from the kitchen sink into the bathroom , we managed to get about three baths a week , cos it , it was a terrible fag , but we did , and then you just emptied the bath out and out in the drain outside you know . |
| 27 | Was there ever a time when you had to go in for more drastic measures ? |
| 28 | If you have struggled alone for some time you may be pleasantly surprised at what is now available to you . |
| 29 | You have lived here for half of your life . |
| 30 | Can you explain the cultural foundation that you have set up for this loan ? |