Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | These were indestructible and to this day I regret ever falling for the slick adverts for trendy green ones . |
| 2 | I lay there waiting for the half-hour to pass ; and the silence of the house was still , that day , much more a silence of peace than one of fear . |
| 3 | Masha and I found further cause for depression as , walking in search of a tube station , we came to a major intersection , a roundabout of relentless , screeching vehicles , three and four abreast : for in the centre , on the small concrete island , we saw a man lying on his side . |
| 4 | All he owned were the clothes on his back and a few cassettes which I 'd partly paid for anyway . |
| 5 | And I got up and I was gon na tie her up like but and by gosh I thought I 'd better make for the door again . |
| 6 | No , this is mine , I 'd better pay for my own |
| 7 | I think I 'd better go for Dersingham and you 'd better start keeping tabs on Hereward . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'd better see for myself . |
| 9 | She had more Christmas cards than I 'd ever seen for one person ; every surface was a forest of them . |
| 10 | I came here to look for you , and I 'm lucky to have found you . |
| 11 | It is precisely because I want to see political changes of this kind that I support Home Rule for Scotland . |
| 12 | It 's nice , I suppose please come for please I do n't like that . |
| 13 | I went outside to look for her . |
| 14 | Well I went to , erm they would n't let me go to work on the aircraft so I left and I went to work and the Walsall Electric Company , it was within Walsall and I was there when V E day happened and er a pal of mine said he knew where I could get this job and oh it was travelling about which I enjoyed and er I , I went then to work for Elwells I was there until I went in the army , but they were very much heavy transport and in those days the opencast mining started happening as well and we were taking diggers about bulldozers and tractors , scrapers for the opencast mining and I remember , in the bad winter of forty-seven , they , they took up a big part of Park , trees and everything and they never found a bit of coal and yet when started levelling off at Darleston , for Bentley Garden Village as it was then called , er they were getting coal out and people were going up with prams , barrows and everything and fetching it all out it was only being levelled for building work , and fetching coal , natural coal off Bentley Common the erm I 've wandering off away from the airport a bit have n't I ? |
| 15 | I never expected it to be easy , but I do sometimes wish for those moments that I experienced in the distant past , when the umpire used to say , ‘ game , set and match ’ , and you shook hands before entering the comparative safety of the changing room . |
| 16 | I said well bully for you . |
| 17 | I said still looking for your sweets is she . |
| 18 | I had also asked for a chair-lift and a motorised wheelchair , which have not arrived . |
| 19 | I had once played for a Media XI against the local club . |
| 20 | ‘ I had better ring for another cover to be laid . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I had better recapitulate for you . |
| 22 | Diarrhoea , which I had now had for five days , finally drove me from my bed at six-thirty . |
| 23 | This happened to me in May this year when I walked into ‘ Pluggers ’ shop ( Wet Pet of Detroit ) and saw the most beautiful pair of Ornate Birchirs ( Polypterus ornatipinnis ) I had ever seen for sale . |
| 24 | He was the ideal of all the friends I had ever longed for , the elder brother that , as an only child , I could never hope for — though he was at least fifteen years younger than I , his assurance and absolute maleness made me feel like a younger brother by contrast . |
| 25 | This period around 1967 was the time of the big change-over in the airline business from piston engines to jets , so it was clear that the programme I had selfishly pursued for my own good was in fact a proper course to follow for all Ops inspectors if they were to continue to be able to do their work effectively . |
| 26 | Do I start tomorrow looking for a new paper , because the Echo ca n't be doing with a man who lacks the bloody human touch ? |
| 27 | I thought we could have lunch in the garden after your inspection — I 've already arranged for the fridge to be restocked — and afterwards , if you do n't fancy going to the beach , we could go out in my boat , or I 'll take you for a tour of North Zealand , through the quaint old villages with their farmhouses and gardens full of hollyhocks and the beech woods . |
| 28 | Oh , I 've already qualified for that next year . |
| 29 | Well I 've already paid for mine so I 'm going to get |
| 30 | And I 've already paid for mine , so this I 'll take . |