Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] [adv prt] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It has all worked out for the best , yes ? |
| 2 | By twelve o'clock he had usually earned enough to live on for the day . |
| 3 | He has not turned up for the past two meetings of the Supreme National Council , which he chairs and which is supposed to govern Cambodia , in conjunction with the UN , in the period up to the election . |
| 4 | He has not turned out for the village team since . |
| 5 | He has not turned out for the village team since . |
| 6 | ‘ I think everyone is probably making far too much fuss , and Angela has just taken off for a few days ' holiday . ’ |
| 7 | I think she should have played a Tour Event before an exhibition event , but then again it would n't be the first time she has n't turned up for a Tour Event would it ? |
| 8 | So much so that Colin , being totally pissed off with the press , has n't turned up for the interview . |
| 9 | So much so that Colin , being totally pissed off with the press , has n't turned up for the interview . |
| 10 | I 've trained her , but she has n't gone in for the exams . |
| 11 | As well as contributing to Oslobodjenje Camo is editor-in-chief of Nedjelja , a weekly magazine published by the same company , but which has n't come out for the last three months . |
| 12 | None of the European resorts has yet gone in for the wholesale investment in snow-making which we see in the United States , mainly because the capital outlay is enormous and the running costs extremely high . |
| 13 | Well he 's taken us out when they 've been to bloody shop working and come back and wa I admitted that , but I mean just to go out for an evening . |
| 14 | And while she 's on the job , she 'd better look round for a well-born filly for Timothy to marry . |
| 15 | I mean given that you 've got a , oh I do n't know , a pound you 're going to spend a week in gambling entertainment , if I could put it that way , you 'd do better to go in for the pools , because if you did have a win you might have a big one , than to put it on a horse — am I right ? |
| 16 | But I think they 'd just gone back for the money creed and once you get that well erm they do n't realize that they could be falling into the trap unless we blokes stand firm now to maintain this standard of living . |
| 17 | ‘ Steve ! ’ she cried in amazement as he let himself into the apartment , grinning all over his silly face as if he 'd just popped out for a paper that morning and found he 'd won the state lottery . |
| 18 | A MOTHER told how getting up for a drink of milk saved her family from a house fire . |
| 19 | Ah ye , no I mean like go out for a |
| 20 | I know when to duck out for a breather . |
| 21 | Vincent decided not to hang about for the landlord , but head back on foot the way they had come . |
| 22 | But it 's clear from the level of concentration on the brows of the muscular young men and the shoulder-padded young women in the front row that they would have happily forked out for the privilege of being present . |
| 23 | Even when I arrived back at Thornfield , I did not go in for a while . |
| 24 | In any case , he added , people did not show up for the political meetings , only arriving in time for the drinking afterwards . |
| 25 | They did , however , provide a good deal of entertainment for the rest of the group and would be missed if they did not turn up for a game . |
| 26 | Angry with Nutty for her pigheadedness and superior airs , Nails did not turn up for the next swimming lesson . |
| 27 | Although tankers did not come in for the attention they received in the 1980s , on 25 January Platt 's carried an account of an attack on an Iraqi tanker by US aircraft . |
| 28 | Do not stand up for a few moments . |
| 29 | ‘ Give me your number and do not go out for the next half-hour . ’ |
| 30 | The purpose of having a timetable is so that all relevant information can be digested and acted upon , and so that bids do not carry on for an unreasonable length of time . |