Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [vb past] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | said to me about Pauline 's kids her three lads , not the baby like the two lads she said , oh she said er they came to play one night , or they came for tea or something and she goes to work at night you know , she said Paul was looking after them and she said , he said you could hear all this banging up and down the stairs , he said , bloody hell he said they were going mad , and I thought that 's what Tom and Hannah do when they come here , I said your two bang up and down like bloody anything I said that 's normal , you know for kids . |
| 2 | ‘ To begin with , I worked for the family , pushing the churns round the streets on the milk-cart , but then I got too old for that , and I applied for work with the Dock workers Guild at Jubilee Wharf . ’ |
| 3 | And I thought for fuck 's sake , and he is like that , his mum as well is like that . |
| 4 | for two days Signe and I waited for Harvey Newbegin to return . |
| 5 | And I left for work at about 8.30 . |
| 6 | At last I was able to speak to Judge Kerwin , and I asked for news of my family . |
| 7 | He said , ‘ When I was a kid I saw that film , and I wanked for days on end . |
| 8 | On the way to the camp we passed a boulder where Tony and I competed for rock climbing idiot of the evening . |
| 9 | I had just time to think what a help he was being when another boot landed in my guts and I gasped for air . |
| 10 | I was the one in hide-and-seek that you never came looking for and I hid for hours from no-one … . |
| 11 | I did well , I had hundred pound in me purse last night till Steve says can I have me pocket money and can I have me petrol and can I have this and I paid for coal and I 've got forty . |
| 12 | ‘ Who ? ’ asked my mother , and I replied for Lili , ‘ Robert 's gallery owner . ’ |
| 13 | And I shouted for daddy . |
| 14 | It was night now and I turned for home , an awestruck child again , but joyful in the new world of understanding that had supplanted the dark , African fears . |
| 15 | Erm , I went on a diet last year , to one of these clubs and , within record time got to the weight I was supposed to be , calorie counting and then I had to come off and I found for weeks after feelings of terrible guilt if I ate |
| 16 | And I cried for Arnie because he 'd trusted me . ’ |
| 17 | But how strange it was , the changes which the past two or three weeks had brought : not merely the changes of circumstances ; her father and his hoped for promotion , herself going to the Stadium , Omi talking about herself , Fritz … but the whole relationship inside the family had altered , and she herself had changed , and it had begun with the arrival of Uncle Karl , as if he were a sorcerer , a wave of whose manicured hands could transform life , as alchemists thought they could transform base metal into gold or , with a certain sinister frisson , perhaps the other way around . |
| 18 | He went to Eastern Infants School where the playing field was a concrete yard and you trained for football by being slammed against a brick wall . |
| 19 | Suddenly the cold around her began to burn , as an unknown and unsuspected rage lapped its edges and she felt for Tommaso sudden furious rancour.Contempt joined that rage too in turn , as she thought of his condition , the future of a conscript , the birth of a Post Office clerk 's son , who was in any case a stranger in the south , with God knows what dangerous notions in his head . |
| 20 | When Mrs Reynolds came to visit her husband , the staff nurse spent some time with them both explaining what they should expect immediately after the operation and she arranged for Mrs Reynolds to telephone the ward the following afternoon . |
| 21 | The incident delayed the Wardair Airbus on its flight to Toronto by three hours 11 minutes and she asked for compensation of more than £1,500 . |
| 22 | ‘ And she asked for Tutilo ? ’ |
| 23 | Apparently Miss Duncan is having some kind of attack , and she asked for Niall . ’ |
| 24 | Her ribcage seemed too small and she panted for air . |
| 25 | Deep down she was almost ready to beg to stay , but her old character came to her aid and she fought for control . |
| 26 | And now although her whole body cried out for fulfilment and she longed for Joss Barnet to complete what he had surely come to do , she knew that she must not let it happen . |
| 27 | A touch more eyeshadow and mascara and she twirled for Mrs Freer . |
| 28 | They talked for two hours before going their separate ways , he up the Amazon and she bound for Canada . |
| 29 | Our breaking-in weeks were nearly over and we waited for news of posting to Initial Training Wing . |
| 30 | Operations manager Siobhan Hunter , who is responsible for the Morgan Grenfell contract , says : ‘ We 've been looking at computers for the past 18 months , and we went for Caterdata , having seen it in action at BE Services , the in-house caterer at the Bank of England . ’ |