Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [verb] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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1 | Most of them apparently turned up for the first Sunday game at the picturesque University ground . |
2 | Yeah I only put in for three thousand , he got me a nine . |
3 | I only go in for skinpopping . |
4 | I only dropped off for a second . ’ |
5 | You see when Jane Pargeter told me , I suddenly looked round for Nicola at the party . |
6 | instead of just going , you should of said oh I just come up for a few days |
7 | ‘ The ball was bouncing about and I just went in for it . |
8 | So on the days when I lead the Micks on Mounting Guards , I do n't get breakfast , I just make up for it at lunch . |
9 | I find I can easily put things into perspective , see both sides of an issue , if I just sit around for a while and I probably do that for half an hour a day . |
10 | " I just looked in for a moment to see how you were getting on together . |
11 | Ca n't think in the arts , in the art bit so I just I just go in for a coffee as well , yeah . |
12 | ‘ I just go out for a bit , just for an hour or two , and when I come back you ai n't even got the kettle on . |
13 | She said oh no I just rang up for a chat . |
14 | At the er and they have a band on that night that I just called on for the |
15 | erm , you do n't like looking through it , but can I just look through for you and learn it for you . |
16 | For the first time ever , my pride got the better of me and I desperately looked round for some means of defending myself . |
17 | Dang and I finally set out for the village where she wanted to start the ‘ cottage industry ’ . |
18 | I always stand up for myself . |
19 | Before I go to the supermarket , I usually stop off for a drink ; I sit at the bar and watch the real world go by . |
20 | I also sang in for him , but of course time was by then sadly running out . |
21 | I really cried out for God 's help , and my baby answered it . |
22 | It is possible that I even dozed off for a few seconds , exhausted by the day 's work . |
23 | Probably , in those days , I was a bit of an ideological innocent — shamingly , I even singled out for praise the ostentatiously populist action of one member of the national executive . |
24 | I then went off for lunch which was soup and crayfish . |
25 | Just one of the six keyboards on test came close to meeting the criteria I initially laid down for a replacement keyboard , the Fuller FDS. Even here the poor workmanship left much to be desired . |
26 | Bless them , she thought fondly , it must have taken them forever to save up for it from their meagre pocket money . |
27 | Oh you only got up for a coffee ? |
28 | Mm you basically saving up for a complete system ? |
29 | She soon set off for Leicester , where she sobbed ‘ hideously ’ and was put in prison with two unlucky fellow-pilgrims . |
30 | Yeah , but you just , you just figure out for yourself what |