Example sentences of "[adv prt] [conj] [verb] for [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He described one , a boy who was glad to come in and sit for him , and bring his spade . |
| 2 | So the woman took him in and cared for him . |
| 3 | However little time I spend at the front they do n't come in and get on with something , they come in and wait for me . |
| 4 | But if so , why had they not walked in and asked for it ? |
| 5 | But one thing , on behalf of the museum services , I would like to thank Doreen Griffiths for the help she gave us in our exhibition , ’ Memories of Change ’ , which you can see in the exhibition room over there , and she contributed a lot of photographs , and her memories , and allowed herself to be taped and have her memories in our archive , and for that we give her a great thank , because it 's not always easy for the , sometimes for the first time to begin talking into a tape-recorder , so we thank her very much , and thank you very much for coming in and performing for us today ! |
| 6 | Perhaps she would say : ‘ Jack is not at home , but you are welcome to come in and wait for him . |
| 7 | I mean like people come in and pay for it . |
| 8 | And it says , now when the apostles , who were in Jerusalem heard that Somaria had received the word of God they sent them Peter and John , who came down and prayed for them , that they might receive the Holy Spirit . |
| 9 | ‘ Just get your heads down and go for it , ’ was Nicholl 's message to his players yesterday . |
| 10 | ‘ In fact , I did n't even know McCallen had n't started for I just got my head down and went for it from the fall of the flag . |
| 11 | When Mr George was said he did n't want to give evidence , the judge , Mr Justice Auld , said he had a duty to give evidence … he should sit down and prepare for it . |
| 12 | They 're not like coarse fish , Jo , perch , or roach or whatever in the river , if you catch them , they just sort of , lie down and wait for you . |
| 13 | ‘ Forgive me , my darling , ’ he requested with such charm that she was ready to lie down and die for him . |
| 14 | I would have enjoyed them even more had I not been about to faint every ten yards , but I was in far too bad a mood to tell my colleagues to slow down and wait for me . |
| 15 | I 'll go down and wait for him , so he wo n't have to ring " |
| 16 | But if she did n't take it back he would only come along and ask for it She was surprised he had n't already . |
| 17 | Steve looked up from the menu he was drooling over and waited for her to go on . |
| 18 | He leaned over and reached for her , his arms wrapping around her waist , but she slapped his hands away . |
| 19 | And I said well were on our way out so she said alright , were hang on and wait for you to arrive at seven and then I 'll take the rest back . |
| 20 | But it 's er well it do n't matter , put a number on and look for it . |
| 21 | If someone was looking for The Bar in those days — because there was no name written up or sign for it , no lights at all , and not even a number on the door , Madame liked to keep it that way even when she did n't have to any more — I mean when she opened up we may all have been in a sort of hiding , and not many people knew about The Bar and our life there , but it was n't that way later , and now you know we can have lights and advertising and you see boys queueing up outside every night , very public , and I like to see that — but in those days , in those days if somebody arranged to meet you for a date there , and it was their first time and they were n't sure how to find us , you 'd joke with them , and you 'd say well first there is a wedding , and then there 's a death , and there 's the news , and then there 's us ; meaning , first there 's the shop with the flowers , the real ones , and next door to that is the undertaker 's with the fake flowers in the window , china , all dusty ; and then the newsagent 's and magazine shop , and then right next door to that is The Bar . |
| 22 | The company should organise to pick it up or pay for it to be returned to them . |
| 23 | Adam wondered if Abigail sometimes woke up and looked for him in the dark , in the empty room , and fretted for a while before she began to cry . |
| 24 | erm because I 'd phoned up and asked for them , er my secretary had phoned up and asked for a meeting with her but the response was we 're not allowed to meet with you , so we said okay , cos it 's public money and things |
| 25 | Go up and wait for me . ’ |
| 26 | If you want to ask me something or tell me about something you put your hand up and wait for me to ask you . |
| 27 | We thought we 'd just come back up and wait for it , have a little more fun . ’ |
| 28 | I shall come in every day to clean up and cook for them . |
| 29 | Then , as one nome , they gave up and ran for it , fighting their way through the scrub and grass , skidding on stones , elbows going up and down like pistons . |
| 30 | But when Fei Yen made to get up and pour for him , Tsu Ma took the jug and went round himself , filling their cups . |