Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] for [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He plunged down for an interminable second , arms and legs splayed out in abandon , forgotten , tumbling anyhow , and crashed onto the stage on his back , lying across Bothwell , whose cloak was the colour of blood . |
| 32 | But the Signpost Hotel Guide survey of 300 hotel owners showed that fewer people are bothering use a false name when they book in for an illicit weekend . |
| 33 | Young Mrs M. looked shocked at the thought , so she waited outside , while I sprinted in for a quick glimpse at Bishop Stock 's former domain . |
| 34 | so you felt that and that pulse point there if you press on it hard enough you can actually stop the one in the wrist and of course that is controlling the flow of blood to the rest of the arm and you leave a pressure point closed off like that for no more than ten minutes , because if you left it on for too long that it means not sufficient blood 's getting to the rest of the , the limbs and the limb must have its blood supply , so you leave the pressure on for ten minutes and then release it , say for ten seconds just so say that the hand comes back pinkish again and if it 's not slowing down , back on with the pressure again for another ten minutes and that 's how you use it , tap off , ten minutes at the most , tap on for a little while , if it 's leaked again reapply , ten minutes at the most , tap on again , okay and that 's how you 'll control it , so if you do have a sit a situation where the bleeding was bad cos you 've got a , a limb severed , you could n't perhaps put sufficient direct pressure over that limb , this done , right , to control the bleeding then you could use indirect pressure , here , breaking or here , right in the , no playing now please , no trying to find this one right now , do this one tonight , in bed and the old lady said now what are you doing to me , never you mind , go to sleep |
| 35 | He knew this was something that had been happening slowly for a long time , something that had to happen or he was lost , but it was such a brittle structure they were building , one word would topple it , shatter it , one word would be enough to jerk them back into that ordinary daylight where nothing could be changed or righted , nothing could unravel . |
| 36 | He stood for a moment laughing at her as she cast furiously for the vanished rabbit , and walked on , to catch her up , along the raised embankment . |
| 37 | However , the charges on both money and other property may be postponed or other property substituted , especially where the money or property is required to provide somewhere for the assisted person to live . |
| 38 | College lecturers have voted overwhelmingly for a one-day strike and a total ban on flexible working over pay , the National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education announced yesterday . |
| 39 | When Eddie gets the brush off from his new female boss ( the very wonderful Robin Givens ) , director Reggie Hudlin cues up comic reversals ( she stands him up , drops in for a quick fuck , he bleats about commitment ) , which may not quite reflect the complexity of modern sex wars ( no mention of Aids here ) but are still funny . |
| 40 | Westwood offers an account of how the structures of gender , ethnicity and class fit together for a specific group of women workers . |
| 41 | While it has come in for a certain amount of criticism , it has also attracted much praise , especially from industry . |
| 42 | Understandably , this presumption has come in for a great deal of criticism . |
| 43 | Nevertheless , Sun has come in for no small amount of criticism in pursuing what is often strictly an ‘ invented here ’ approach to technology solutions , at the expense of making some pragmatic marketing decisions . |
| 44 | What I might actually do it see if Ian 's not doing anything if he not come in for the full time that they 're cleaning up , but come in for those sort of things . |
| 45 | That two dozen of these interiors are in buildings statutorily ‘ listed ’ for their special architectural or historic interest say much for the low regard paid to pubs in the exercise of listed building control and indeed for the listing process itself . |
| 46 | and erm I used to do erm , keep a check on the flying times of the planes cos every forty hours they had to come in for a different check . |
| 47 | He never wrote entirely admiring reviews : ‘ It 's the essence of a book never to be perfect , ’ he said , ‘ so its writer must expect to come in for a little criticism . ’ |
| 48 | We used to come in for a fair amount of ribbing and good-natured chaff , and remarks like , Was it a red sky this morning ? |
| 49 | He was recently fined £500 by the European Tour when , after a first round of 74 in his defence of the Mediterranean Open , he refused to come in for the requested press interview . |
| 50 | Colours can of course be mixed together for an infinite variety of results . |
| 51 | River Island women 's range has already got party dresses in for the festive season . |
| 52 | Artcare only use quality nylon zips , each of which has been designed especially for a particular portfolio ; and only square arch mechanisms are used making presentation much neater . |
| 53 | The way I was doing the deal , everyone was going to have to work together for a long time . ’ |
| 54 | The industry still has problems but I sense an increasing willingness for its component parts to work together for the common good . |
| 55 | He did n't know if they would succeed , but it showed that , even here , there were people prepared to work together for the common good . |
| 56 | It 's light , comfortable , and worn over a T-shirt , or even next to the skin , warm enough for the Scottish summer without making you sweat to death . |
| 57 | For more recipe ideas send away for a free booklet to ‘ Salads through the seasons ’ |
| 58 | Some of the early structure plans were extraordinarily ambitious in their scope : land use plans promised just for a little while to become all-embracing social , economic and ‘ physical ’ documents , with a further clear relationship to transportation matters . |
| 59 | Spared that sort of indignity , the 22 horses and riders approached individually for a staggered start . |
| 60 | Sixty miles they used to come over for a good evening at those and maybe two principles |