Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] [adv prt] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I put in for a supplementary allocation only last week , ’ he said . |
| 2 | Once a month I go out for a serious session — the last of which was a hard circuit of Radnor Forest , but I enjoyed it tremendously . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I go in for a certain amount of golf , you know . |
| 4 | When you sit down for a wee while . |
| 5 | The sort of thing you read about for a cheap thrill in the advice column of a woman 's magazine — it really happens , it happens to you . |
| 6 | You thrash around for a few minutes , trying not to breathe , but you have to inhale sometimes . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ But if you carry on for a few more days on an unofficial basis , that 's your business . |
| 8 | Accent is on comfort when you step in for a relaxing drink . |
| 9 | Day Seven : Time at leisure until you check in for a scheduled flight home to London Heathrow . |
| 10 | We set off for a five mile run in the woods to the south of the camp . |
| 11 | So we set off for a last look round . |
| 12 | This is the moment when we decide whether we go in for a federal Europe or whether we go in for a Europe of member states trading together , competing together , co-operating together . |
| 13 | And they make up for a curtailed visual field by being able to rotate their heads through 180° . |
| 14 | They scream in horrifying agony , and thick gouts of blood spray over anyone in the area as the meats fly with a squelch into roasting-trays on the tables , where they flop about for a few minutes like dying animals . |