Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] [adv prt] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | And while she 's on the job , she 'd better look round for a well-born filly for Timothy to marry . |
| 2 | ‘ Steve ! ’ she cried in amazement as he let himself into the apartment , grinning all over his silly face as if he 'd just popped out for a paper that morning and found he 'd won the state lottery . |
| 3 | A MOTHER told how getting up for a drink of milk saved her family from a house fire . |
| 4 | Even when I arrived back at Thornfield , I did not go in for a while . |
| 5 | They did , however , provide a good deal of entertainment for the rest of the group and would be missed if they did not turn up for a game . |
| 6 | Turning well inside the box he side-stepped Birney to hammer in a shot which McConnell did well to push out for a corner . |
| 7 | ‘ They did n't call round for a chat , for Christ 's sake . |
| 8 | so I thought you were going to cos you did n't come back for a long time . |
| 9 | He give me them , I took them for three days , right , I did n't come down for a fortnight and Russell 'll tell you that , I was high as a kite . |
| 10 | And when I took those I did n't come down for a , and that frightened me , I said to Russell I will never ever take speed because it 's if , I was er we were in the pub right on a Sunday morning and I was there but I was n't there , I was somewhere else . |
| 11 | You did n't turn up for a meeting two weeks ago . ’ |
| 12 | The old man did n't turn up for a week , and then two weeks and then three weeks and everybody was fairly in despair . |
| 13 | She was ready now for the sight of the chair , the pipe , the feeling that her father had only popped out for a minute and would be back before she could leave . |
| 14 | We 've already seen how carefully planned customer flow can encourage the shopper to leave with a loaded basket when she had only popped in for a loaf of bread or a pint of milk . |
| 15 | After all , I had only come back for a day or two to buy some good German clothes . |
| 16 | Recently , we had enough saved up for a nice flat after having lived in one room for a year . |
| 17 | Aware that there was no accepted path for women in deacons ' orders in the Church of England , she had nevertheless looked around for a curacy which would put her in possession of solid parish experience . |
| 18 | During this ceaseless pursuit of the right métier for my particular brand of foolishness , I had already pitched up for a Telethon trailer to flamenco dance for the cause . |
| 19 | He kept forgetting they would write it down : he seems to have thought — most of the time — that they had just turned up for a friendly drink . |
| 20 | It would n't be much good telling them I had just popped out for a breath of air this street led to both the bus and railway stations and it would n't need a genius to rumble my little game . |
| 21 | The impression of a house where the occupants had just walked out for a stroll in the garden was very strong . |
| 22 | She said she could n't stay , that she had just dropped in for a minute . |
| 23 | After an evening of pleasure and profit with my friends in Bank Street , I had clearly gone out for a drink or two . |
| 24 | He had n't let up for a single moment , questioning , probing , searching for clues in her answers like a scientist searching for new bugs on a microscope slide . |
| 25 | But I had neither stumped up for a bale of fluffy bathroom towels , nor chipped in to the Qantas ticket . |