Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Type Report on Yugoslav Spitfires by Peter Arnold in the April issue ( p70 ) evoked many memories for me and caused me to rummage around for some half-forgotten photos of nearly half a century ago , and there it was , Mk VcJK808 ‘ B ’ with yours truly in attendance . |
| 2 | The wife and daughter were usually silent , but Service and I made up for that . |
| 3 | That I lived here for many years as a child , that — " |
| 4 | I lay there for many hours , but at last I fell asleep , and in my small , helpless boat , dreamed of home and the Admiral Benbow . |
| 5 | And we pre-process the data as I say commonly for all the neurons before we present it to our three neurons . |
| 6 | I phoned down for some eggs , toast and a quart of coffee . |
| 7 | ‘ I came here for some answers . |
| 8 | Hateley baffled and upset by the affair says : ‘ I came in for that one game , and I thought I did reasonably well . |
| 9 | Shall I send off for that ? |
| 10 | So I put in for that and I got that . |
| 11 | So anyway I put in for this job and and there were people who who ought to have got it before me , er for instance er there was a councillor at er at , Tom , did you know Tom ? |
| 12 | ‘ It 's what I hang around for all day , ’ said the poet , ‘ when your mother is doing something useful . ’ |
| 13 | Well I do n't know , there are such good Japanese coupes now , you know you see these lovely Toyotas and Nissans that they do the sort of two plus two and they 're really lovely cars and but if I change c car this next year I 'll still have to have four seater or , you know , plenty of room in the boot so I can pick you up from Haileybury and all that crap , but if I hung on for another two years I could then get something I actually wanted , you know . |
| 14 | I slow down for some cows and greet many people but I do n't usually have to stop now , even for elders . |
| 15 | I stuck around for another seven years for the children 's sake but it was very unsatisfactory . |
| 16 | I reckon just for this it 'll cost you about eighteen quid . |
| 17 | erm I mean as I said before , I do n't have relatives out in the Gulf , but I feel immensely for these men that are out there , men and women , and also for the news reporters , I mean nobody 's actually said what an awful job it must be for these news reporters and sort of camera crews that are actually erm doing this sort of wonderful job of bringing us back here all this information . |
| 18 | I looked round for more as the first two flamed near the centre of the Grounds , finally collapsing into the grass , stiff-limbed but twitching , crackling to the breeze . |
| 19 | I looked round for some small objects to work with . |
| 20 | I looked around for this other speaker , this eminent historian who had been right in the middle of the action , this acute analyst who assembled with such thoroughness the material I too had worked on , who had packed it into enlightening and readable volumes . |
| 21 | We shall see whether I 've learnt enough when I go up for those exams . |
| 22 | and then if I , I go out for another one , that means two evening evenings back |
| 23 | send you these things , I go in for all the competitions and I never put a stamp on the envelope unless I 'm ordering something |
| 24 | That was an experience I went through for many months , not saying anything . |
| 25 | I mention this now to Gordon and he chuckles : ‘ I went specially for that shot . |
| 26 | Well , I went down for that Christmas . |
| 27 | And like I went down for that one Monday . |
| 28 | I missed several classes because they put me up in , for instance I , when I came up from the infants to the big school I missed the first standard and they put me into standard two and I went from two , three , four , five , six , seven and seven and I was only eleven , you see , so I did pretty well and then the Headmaster came to my parents and said , why do n't you let her go in for a scholarship to Stowmarket Secondary and so I went in for that and er there was one other girl went as well , there were two of us and erm , and of course we only heard during the summer break and er we passed . |
| 29 | But I did n't give up , I went in for another and I came third again , and then I gave up , so that was the end of that . |
| 30 | Well it 'd probably be the June or July before I went in for this exam , which they did n't hold very frequently and er then I had to pass this exam and that I could leave school in the August , Bank Holiday . |