Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv prt] for " in BNC.

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1 But until the inquiry decides , it 's hats on for the ramblers .
2 Mm , there 's a lot of people who 've erm , I mean a lot of s all the T V companies are putting programmes on for next week
3 That means we can delay putting plans in for the reservoir .
4 So someone bought the bailiffs in for sixty two quid !
5 Ca n't fit the notes in for that .
6 Got a few more voices on for the tape .
7 When the school closed , they kept the animals on for the toddlers in the local playgroups .
8 This extends to his judicious choice of tempi which thankfully avoids the ‘ brakes on for the big melodies ’ approach , which in some versions comes close to collapsing the entire edifice under its own emotional weight .
9 Just take an odd sock , put your hand inside and pull the toe in for a mouth , stick paper shapes on for eyes and nose .
10 Cut the fingers off an odd glove and stick pater shapes on for instant finger puppets .
11 Westerners in Bangkok were advised to keep their heads down for 48 hours .
12 The atmosphere was tense and all realised it was heads down for a full house .
13 ‘ I prefer to keep our heads down for the moment .
14 Oh no , I , I 'll put the hydros in for you as well because I 'm I 'm helpful like that !
15 Practice was largely limited to horses by the peculiar constitution of the College , whereby subscribers of the richer sort sent their animals in for free treatment and received drugs at half-price .
16 And also to those innocent victims of this jape who might even have put their cars in for the test and discovered the garage is no longer the soft option it was once reputed to be !
17 WE still get cars in for service from the 1950 's and 1960's .
18 EYES down for our weekly quiz about the news of the last seven days .
19 Eyes down for a full house and a long run .
20 Eyes down for a full house .
21 His Nan always gets lollies in for the kids and they came in more than useful this time . ’
22 Mr Stant of course , used to knock the goals in for Hereford and they could do with some of his sharpshooting right now .
23 Hence we get what would otherwise be an absurdity : the spectacle of linguists telling speakers off for wanting to make ‘ unnecessary ’ changes in their language , which is seen , oddly , as something that exists independently of the speakers who use it .
24 She was most likely going to fix up about someone shutting the hens up for her instead of him , going to see the other boy .
25 He was out , but his mother says she 'll tell him , and that he will shut the hens up for me when I have to go out to visit my friend .
26 They used to say , well I try and get my er my legs up for half an hour in the afternoon , but that 'd be about as much as th they 'd get in the way of rest .
27 Country Manor has put the three 1,500sq ft industrial units up for sale and lease .
28 These three fungicides are already on a UK Ministry of Agriculture ( MAFF ) list of 100 pesticides up for review , that have not been subject to modern tests .
29 Cos I 've got to take these kids up for a bath soon er er you can stay
30 Jackie phoned me up to say , she phoned me up today for a chat , we were chatting away and she said erm , I heard Brenda , Brenda , so I knew it was girl , and er , I was saying she walked straight into the kitchen and I was sort of still on the phone , I was saying yeah , yeah , ok and erm , I said I 'm going out shopping and I 'm taking the dog with me , I said ok fair enough , she said well you 'll probably be gone when I get back , I said oh might be but she said but I do n't know and erm you know and I just put the phone down cos she wanted to see the pictures , my little girl asked put all the pictures up for him and er were looking at all the pictures and I 'd forgotten about Jack on the phone you know , so she s all of a sudden I got back she said oh your phone call she said who you talking too ?
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