Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] [adv] for the " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | B : You 'd better make straight for the bank , otherwise you 'll be too late . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | A handful of other members who live locally attend just for the lectures . |
| 9 | However , if Europeans were exasperated with Carter , many had little liking either for the man who beat him in the November presidential elections . |
| 10 | In the second incident , involving the credit card , he had only gone along for the ride , and had not used the card himself , said Mr Harper . |
| 11 | She and had obviously gone away for the weekend . |
| 12 | The idea seemed to fit Lucy 's current expression , as though all hands had already gone down for the third time . |
| 13 | He was lonely and broke and had already barged in for the loan of a cupful of Quaker oats . |
| 14 | ‘ She 's a tough customer , ’ remarked Melissa when they had finally settled down for the night . |
| 15 | The theatre of La Scala was completed by 1778 by Giuseppe Piermarini following the decision by City Governor Ferdinand Hapsburg not to rebuild the theatre in the Palazzo Reale which had just burned down for the third time . |
| 16 | People like EMF and Jesus Jones have had a go , but they 've always gone more for the rock aspect , with the technology just tagged on as an afterthought . |
| 17 | Again , the vice chancellor is nominally a deputy to the chancellor , but in reality is the chief academic and administrative officer of a university , in charge of its day-to-day running ( though he or she does also stand in for the chancellor on ceremonial occasions ) . |
| 18 | Thorstvedt said : ‘ I 've never played better for the club . ’ |
| 19 | That would mean she could buy eggs for supper and pay something on the grocery bill and have enough left over for the vet . |
| 20 | It claims that over 1,000 independent software vendors have already signed up for the new version . |
| 21 | It claims over 1,000 ISVs have already signed up for the new version . |
| 22 | Several big names have already signed up for the massive complex which will house 68 shops when it opens in August . |
| 23 | DEC , Hewlett-Packard , Hitachi , IBM and Groupe Bull have already signed on for the event . |
| 24 | The wh he said in fact it 's just come in for the programme or something has n't it . |
| 25 | East Berlin remained virtually sealed off for the fourth successive day yesterday , but in Poland a further 300 East Germans took refuge with the West German embassy in Warsaw . |