Example sentences of "for [pers pn] [conj] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the liberation they had found their old apartment undamaged , moved back in and set about recreating their old life of searching out young artists , arranging exhibitions for them and building up their own collection of European art . |
| 2 | Left a , a crate of Pils for them and carry on painting everything . |
| 3 | They said children needed trained professionals to care for them and carry out their treatment programmes . |
| 4 | I 'd play for them or write out any song they wanted to learn as long as they gave me ten or fifteen minutes worth of scales and exercises first . ’ |
| 5 | I little knew then what the future held for me and looking back I can see what a lot I had to learn . |
| 6 | I let him work the slot screen for me and point out the sights . |
| 7 | I decided that it was not for me and moved over to accountancy — I had always been reasonable at maths — working for the Co-op and attending college part time . |
| 8 | I did actually say I was going to put a plan together for you and come back in two weeks but I mean |
| 9 | Two men kissing to music under the stars … or Little David , the barman , would bring out his famous white gauze and feather fans and send them gliding across his sweating chest and face ( you do n't see this any more these days ) — as if the secret thoughts that were normally hidden behind that odd smile in his eyes had escaped and taken flight ; as if , I used to think , it was magic , as if some oddly attractive boy had unbuttoned his flies for you and brought out not a fat red cock but a blinking , blinded , delicate , fluttering magician 's dove , releasing it into the roof of the dark theatre to fly crazily over your astonished head … and above all this was that ceiling of shining stars . |
| 10 | His T-shirt was too small for him and came out of the waist of his pants . |
| 11 | She finished undoing it for him and slipped out of the dress , and as she let him raise her petticoat her eyes strayed again to the patch on the ceiling . |
| 12 | The beauty had disappeared below deck now and Fernando was leaning on the handrail waiting for her and gazing out towards the harbour buildings . |
| 13 | Joseph had planned to sell Sabine Jourdain 's work for her and cut out Maurin . |
| 14 | He found the apartment and opened the door for her and stepped back to let her pass . |
| 15 | She took her glasses off , every journey , because , if she did not , they were taken off for her and thrown out of the bus window into a hedge . |
| 16 | If , however , you find yourself carrying three or four such problems it seems clear that there is nothing for it but to go back and attack the first difficulties again . |
| 17 | Nothing for it but to go back the way you came , to Neu St Johann , thence down the Toggenburg valley through the resorts of Nesslau and Ebnat-Kappel to Wattwil . |
| 18 | As he said no more there was nothing for it but to walk on . |
| 19 | The circulation of air round a depression usually has ‘ fronts ’ or areas of rain associated with it , and when birds , which navigate by being able to see the night sky , meet with a barrier of rain and bad visibility then there is nothing for it but to drop down to the nearest land and wait until conditions improve . |
| 20 | They had nothing for it but to crawl back to Mr Scully and to pay Mike Channon 's cancellation fee ( £353 ) out of their own pockets . |
| 21 | Zoe goes for it and plucks up some courage while Leonard asserts himself and makes a decision . |
| 22 | The pain was so unexpected , so absolute , that he had no name for it and fell over without a sound , like a baby , too shocked to make any fuss . |
| 23 | And now , I I almost felt empty when she died , and I did n't have anybody to care for that really needed me all the time so I I , wanted to help out at a local dementia centre to try and make up for it and to pass on |
| 24 | so when we went down there to the brewery there were forty eight cans of Carlsberg on the coach ready for us and coming back there were another forty eight cans so it 's er |