Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [verb] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While I contemplate screaming for mercy . ) |
| 2 | As I say I think I 'll sum up and have a vote , and then I intend to break for lunch on conclusion of this item . |
| 3 | In the end we compromised , Singh apologised and I agreed to pay for repairs to his sidelight . |
| 4 | It was like from head to toe there was these marks on my body where I had bruises , and I got done for police assault — I could n't believe it ! |
| 5 | I got paid for August which was quite clever really cos my date would of been sort of half way through to book my holiday |
| 6 | Its use is very simple — you tell the manager which cells hold the values you want to change , and they 're added to the scenario , which you name ( I tend to go for Disaster , Real and Brill — all self explanatory ) . |
| 7 | Er , it 's like , it 's like the foreman on the shopfloor for some reason , there 's a er , in the systems or whatever , er , the warehouseman er , the night porter er , when he takes over , he knows what he 's doing , he knows what I want , because I 've spoken to him about it , erm , he knows what items I want to leave for stock people , erm , and Sue , the checkout manager , she 'll know if I want extra people on the shopfloor because we 're quiet , or I expect it to be quiet , erm , she knows where they 've got to be , and I 'll come back and review it with her . |
| 8 | I want to compete for Great Britain and myself . |
| 9 | I did that one day when things got hairier than usual , went down to where some bandit was trying to rip us off and practically rubbed beards with him and shouted into his face I Want To Work For Christ 's Sake Let Me Work , but Vic said that was n't being helpful . |
| 10 | If it 's too painful for her to accept that I want to look for Elaine , then I sha n't . ’ |
| 11 | I 'd applied for Mastermind in three previous years but was unsuccessful and even had an audition in 1989 . ’ |
| 12 | It was the first airedale I 'd seen for years , maybe the first since the two that shadowed my childhood . |
| 13 | I was standing in the back of a small boat , drifting down some English river I 've never seen — the kind with dappled , overhang-ing leaves reflected in the water — grasping a punt-pole in my hands and propelling the flat boat like it was something I 'd done for years . |
| 14 | ‘ It was the first speech I 'd made for ages . |
| 15 | However , I knew at least a couple of players because I 'd caddied for Roger Fidler in the 1977 British Open while I was still an assistant , and I 'd also carried Florentina Melina 's bag . |
| 16 | I had dressed as well as I could that morning , in more or less the same stuff I 'd worn for Grandma Margot 's funeral . |
| 17 | So that black top that sweatshirt top that I 'd got for Lee , it was seventeen ninety nine , you got that for thirteen pounds , forty five erm thirty two pound off . |
| 18 | The note I 'd left for Tremayne , ‘ GONE OUT WITH HARRY , BACK FOR GRUB was still pinned to the corkboard . |
| 19 | I had one of the best nights I 'd had for ages , and slept through the rest of the ebb and the whole of the flood . |
| 20 | When I left school , which was in nineteen thirty , it was a bad time for employment , there was a lot of unemploy unemployed people and I tried and tried and eventually I was offered a job at the Bloxwich Lock and Stamping Company in Bell Lane Alexander works , it was er er Squires 's were , er it 's a family er er concern , and erm it was the first offer I 'd had for employment so I took it . |
| 21 | ‘ I came looking for Brenda Blond . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ In October 1983 , I came to work for Cambridgeshire County Council as an Assistant Solicitor . |
| 23 | I support bargaining for London . |
| 24 | ‘ What am I going to do for beds ? |
| 25 | I am now sixteen and like most sixteen year old girls I enjoy shopping for clothes and shoes . |
| 26 | I stand gasping for breath , as I realise where I am : stuck on a strip of concrete railway within a pair of electric rails , twenty feet above the ground . |
| 27 | After I had written my letter of acceptance to Bedford I began to look for digs nearer the university : I was determined to show some independence . |
| 28 | ‘ I enjoyed singing for Tippett , ’ she said , ‘ even though he was quite a perfectionist . ’ |
| 29 | Reluctantly , I hired a pea-green boat , and with my faithful Siamese cat ( Doc Wat Son ) I set sail for Nursery Isle . |
| 30 | In the bedroom I get changed for work . |