Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [verb] [adv] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the event I was shown into a small room with Her Majesty , where we sat together for some twenty minutes chatting amiably about almost anything under the sun . |
| 2 | Charles reappeared , after half an hour 's absence , and threw himself into an armchair , where he lay back for some time with his eyes shut . |
| 3 | Well I do n't know , there are such good Japanese coupes now , you know you see these lovely Toyotas and Nissans that they do the sort of two plus two and they 're really lovely cars and but if I change c car this next year I 'll still have to have four seater or , you know , plenty of room in the boot so I can pick you up from Haileybury and all that crap , but if I hung on for another two years I could then get something I actually wanted , you know . |
| 4 | She had had no life of her own for several years ; if she went out for half an hour , she had to leave messages all round the flat , telling Yury she 'd be back soon , otherwise he would panic . |
| 5 | Of course you can make appalling howlers if you set out for some reason to portray life in a social area unknown to you . |
| 6 | ‘ You 're a brave man if you go back for another of these things , ’ he adds , gesturing at a dodgy-looking sausage sandwich . |
| 7 | ‘ You can get a good view of the moonlight on the lake , if you go in for that sort of thing . |
| 8 | If you look around for some field that has yet to be used in a crime story and then insist on using it when it has not filled you with enthusiasm , your book will be leaden . |
| 9 | I think , if we went on for another half an hour or forty five minutes , we could clear virtually everything . |
| 10 | Roughly how many more steps does the boy have to take if they walk together for half a kilometre ? |
| 11 | If it goes on for another 2 weeks , that is a distinct possibility . |
| 12 | If it does n't for any reason , you have to dub in new matching background sound . |
| 13 | Sometimes it is through a mysterious inner constraint that he makes his presence felt , as when he guided Paul 's evangelistic direction away from the province of Asia in 16:6,7 and towards the hardships and opposition he realised he would have to face if he went up for that last journey to Jerusalem ( Acts 20:22,23 ) . |
| 14 | It sounded vaguely political , chiefly because it went on for some while . |
| 15 | But latterly I 've been here very little ; in fact it must be at least fifteen years since I stayed here for any length of time … |
| 16 | Well it 'd probably be the June or July before I went in for this exam , which they did n't hold very frequently and er then I had to pass this exam and that I could leave school in the August , Bank Holiday . |
| 17 | But it was before they went in for all the cryptonyms and digraphs and five-letter codes because that 's what computers like … ’ |
| 18 | We shall see whether I 've learnt enough when I go up for those exams . |
| 19 | And we pre-process the data as I say commonly for all the neurons before we present it to our three neurons . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'll get her something when she comes home for that . ’ |
| 21 | The ninth bomber came out of a lightening sky at six o'clock exactly , and though she sat there for another hour , it was the last . |
| 22 | So anyway off we goes course when we come back for half an hour at ten o'clock well out of the other machine were n't it ? |
| 23 | and train the English lads when they came out for that kind of work |
| 24 | I have no research to prove that it is an effective relaxation technique , but everyone who has experienced it asks for it when they come back for more treatment . ’ |
| 25 | I have no research to prove that it is an effective relaxation technique , but everyone who has experienced it asks for it when they come back for more treatment . ’ |
| 26 | So while d'Abreu and his colleagues went off eastwards , even braver or more foolhardy men — following the banner of Castile — were determined to discover — heroically and , as it turned out for many of them , fatally — the way to reach this same Orient by travelling outwards to the West , across the vast unknown . |