Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] for a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this he argued powerfully for a revival of social citizenship and the ‘ developmental state ’ . |
| 2 | Dosh — I was pretty sure it was Dosh — and I danced some and she finished off the Kümmel , which meant we then had to sit down for a while near the window , where some scatter cushions had been laid . |
| 3 | Writer Brad Darrach , who had flown down for an interview with Hopper , described the scene that developed : ‘ By mid-afternoon , the games became serious . |
| 4 | More so at that time when companies were culled from post-war part-blackout part-music hall Britain to cling together for a while on what usually became the wreckage of a production . |
| 5 | Does the television studio , in which a group of academics are gathered together for a discussion on an ‘ academic ’ issue , count as an academic setting ? |
| 6 | In the 1970s the police were often concerned with the need to keep apart two rival groups , each of which had gathered together for a demonstration in the same place and at the same time . |
| 7 | Firms would invite favoured clients or business associates down for a day at Sandwich , either as a reward for past favours rendered or in the hope that the goodwill created would lubricate some future deal . |
| 8 | UB may be pencilled in for a show in the King 's Hall on January |
| 9 | IN SEPTEMBER , a group of 50 people met together for a week of prayer at Our Lady of Good Counsel , Leeds . |
| 10 | Recollecting that she had no money with her , Clare asked only for a cup of tea ; but Len made her and Bridget sit down while he queued , and returned with a loaded tray . |
| 11 | The Defence Minister barely flinched as the camera zoomed in for a close-up of his face as they ran the famous film clip from mid-December , 1987 , in which he promised that it would all be over by Christmas . |
| 12 | The Defence Minister barely flinched as the camera zoomed in for a close-up of his face as they ran the famous film clip from mid-December , 1987 , in which he promised that it would all be over by Christmas . |
| 13 | Banks are competing fiercely for a share of the slower-growing market . |
| 14 | She had been accepted for the job at Ardis & Co , looking the way she normally looked , but if to keep her job — and she had no idea at that stage whether there was a Vasey junior , or similar , at G Vasey Ltd — she had to go in for a bit of de glamorisation , then so be it . |
| 15 | Chris , tall , lithe and manly , strips off and goes in for a swim in his panda-briefs . |
| 16 | He goes in for a sort of hall-of-mirrors self-impersonation , telling people how he would have done the murder if he had done it ( which he has ) . |
| 17 | It was already beginning to fill up with French businessmen , and Jean-Paul made purposefully for a table in the window . |
| 18 | It seems only apposite that he should hover so often on the edge of the ‘ pathetic fallacy ’ , as for instance in the assault on Caradhras , where Aragorn and Boromir insist the wind has ‘ fell voices ’ and that stone-slips are aimed , or on the bridge at Khazad-dûm , where Gandalf is ‘ like a wizened tree ’ , but the Balrog a mixture of fire and shadow , a ‘ flame of Udûn ’ — checked only for a moment by Boromir 's horn . |
| 19 | If not , she could try to find somewhere for a cup of tea . |
| 20 | At first he was asked to stand literally for a couple of seconds before being praised and asked to walk on . |
| 21 | However , the Green Paper has come in for a variety of criticisms and there is little evidence that its recommendations will be acted upon in the short- or medium-term . |
| 22 | He had come in for a book of stamps , and when he had got it he joined Breeze , who was waiting on the Green . |
| 23 | JACQUES Delors has come in for a lot of flak for the collapse of the Gatt world trade talks . |
| 24 | The prince has come in for a lot of criticism from the UN and the West for spending most of the past few months in China . |
| 25 | Hello er , I 'm phoning on behalf of Mrs Ada er she 's got to come in for a scan on the fourth of February , nine o'clock , now we 've only just got back from the hospital today , cos she oh , she had to go today for one , yeah , and we 've just |
| 26 | He used to come in for a couple of drinks . |
| 27 | If you 'd care to come in for a cup of tea , now that you 've got out and everything , you 'd be most welcome . |
| 28 | We are able to stand down for a while in the evening to get some sleep , write letters , play darts or watch TV . |
| 29 | Pam has come down for a day of shopping , bringing along our adopted younger sister Kath . |
| 30 | The Frenchman , before turning to her sons , let his glance fall pointedly for a moment to the swell of her breasts tightly bodiced beneath a new Fifth Avenue day dress of sheer white silk chiffon ; then he smiled secretly at her again and this undisguised expression of passionate interest brought a faint flush to her face . |