Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [adv] [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Leeds meanwhile he interested himself in educational ventures and became widely known for public service . |
| 2 | Pete nodded and moved off to look for some more of Bob Ivie 's jungle juice , and Diane eased her way through into the ballroom . |
| 3 | The first lady nodded and went on nodding for several seconds in quiet contemplation before putting two further questions to him concerning European regional incentives , Government grants and subsidies and their cost distorting influence on investment location decisions . |
| 4 | Peeling the shit-stained newspaper from the bottom of the cage , I emptied out the accumulated guano and went off to look for some fresh newspaper . |
| 5 | She was as surprised as he was , and went off to look for some servants . |
| 6 | Crawford stormed out and did not return for two weeks , and then only to pick up his mail . |
| 7 | In the 1880s , the large herds of the kingdom of Karagwe in western Tanzania were severely depleted by rinderpest , and did not recover for several decades . |
| 8 | Maldon were met with stiffer resistance in the second half and did not score for 20 minutes , until scrum-half Willcocks dived over in the corner . |
| 9 | Jones , 20 , suffered sickness and diarrhoea and did n't eat for five days . |
| 10 | I do n't even know whether she used the flat , or whether she changed her mind and did n't go for one reason or another . ’ |
| 11 | She stormed off and did n't wait for any reply , but Alain caught her quickly . |
| 12 | ‘ I felt we played a little bit like an end of season game and did n't work for each other . ’ |
| 13 | She was very overactive and had not slept for three nights . |
| 14 | Some 1,500 high-school students had been protesting against the reintroduction of mid-term examinations and had also called for increased government spending on education . |
| 15 | In 1952 , in an article entitled ‘ Discourse Analysis ’ , he analysed an advertisement for hair tonic — from which he coyly omitted the brand name — and set about searching for grammatical rules to explain why one sentence followed another . |