Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb pp] [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The conflict has already dragged on for five years ; thousands have died . |
| 2 | The hardest hit Americans included Ed Ruscha , Donald Sultan and Frank Stella though Anthony Grant at Sotheby 's stresses that demand has already bounced back for top works by Julian Schnabel and others badly mauled in 1991 . |
| 3 | Getting this ingredient off the drawing boards and into bricks and mortar — not to mention details such as Donald Duck doorknobs — was indeed the stuff of dreams for Stern , who has always stood up for emotional content : ‘ In my view , whether you are engaged in a theme park , a hospital , or a court house , the building should elicit some excitement . ’ |
| 4 | The arts community has always gone in for manic attention-seeking , of course — the oxygen of publicity ( to borrow a phrase ) being crucial to its survival . |
| 5 | The debate has now gone on for thirty minutes . |
| 6 | Palin may not have travelled much as a young man , but he has now made up for lost time . |
| 7 | The Princess of Wales may not have been quick to learn at school — possibly because her lessons did not interest her much — but she has certainly made up for lost time since her marriage . |
| 8 | ‘ Diana is an Uptown girl who has never gone in for downtown men , ’ observes Rory Scott . |
| 9 | In 1743 , for example , when a number of the friends of Lord Panmure solicited his intervention in support of the candidacy of James Milne for the collectorship of Angus , Panmure was provided with a marked list of commissioners of supply , with those whom Panmure and his brother might be expected to influence carefully pointed out for personal solicitation . |
| 10 | Other large proportions go to space and civil aviation , leaving little left over for industrial R&D . |
| 11 | I 've only popped by for five minutes . |
| 12 | Well I , well I say , we 've looked at it slightly different because we 've only , we 've only worked together for five weeks . |
| 13 | ‘ I think we can do better than that , ’ he returned smoothly , and , making her heart spurt with activity again , ‘ I 've merely returned home for some papers . |
| 14 | Luckily Mike Farquharson who had only come offshore for two days and ended up staying a week , volunteered to cover until my colleague Jim Gibb arrived . ’ |
| 15 | Even when things had apparently gone well for fifteen years , the thinking population had been saying that the good times can never last : Surely enough , they came to an end in the mid 1970's . |
| 16 | They 've just come in for ninety three . |
| 17 | No , but , you , you see what I 'm trying to get at eh Chris , we 've already paid once for this service and then , then asking us to pay again , which annoys me , you 've already paid for the system and there asking you to pay again . |
| 18 | Thereafter the accelerating rate of population growth coincided with the ending of the bounty of generally good harvests to turn the trend in the cost of living sharply upwards , while in most regions the increase in the labour force changed a labour market in which wages had generally held up for more than half a century . |
| 19 | We do within P Way Design , which is probably the best office I 've ever worked in for that . |
| 20 | Incidentally , it does n't include the disposal of Smithmark We 've also er we 've also gone in for other cost reduction exercises , for instance at er Dalton with a review of warehousing and distribution er , we should save about a million pounds in a full year and we 've been ramming home to our chief executives the need for annual payroll reviews to be geared to the profitability of the company rather than t rather than to the rate of inflation er , or even , er in , even the market place . |
| 21 | Bruce Davidson had accompanied McLeish from his last posting to C1 , that division of New Scotland Yard concerned exclusively with murder , and they had now worked together for four years in the CID . |
| 22 | Thus in a case in 1969 , where the 10-year-old child born in England of Spanish parents had been very unhappy during the seventeen months he had spent with them in Spain , and had then lived happily for several years with foster parents and their six children in England , the court refused to make an order that care and control should be granted to the parents , one of whom was in poor health . |
| 23 | Even his own notorious plant , which had consistently gone downhill for ten years under his active leadership , had been steadily increasing efficiency and output for several weeks without interruption . |
| 24 | I 've actually put in for twenty thousand pounds ' worth of grants at this point , however , let's see whether I 'm fortunate to achieve that . |
| 25 | I felt a little ashamed that I had never cared enough for any of my father 's relatives to give even a thought to their reactions to the prospect of an irregular addition to the family . |
| 26 | They have only played together for 45 minutes at international level , when Shearer scored on his debut against France nine months ago . |
| 27 | He 's , he 's already come in for one form put it , he 's obviously filled one form in , he came up and he said can I have an application form for that job in the window , so I gave him one and he went , oh well I 've just filled one in . |
| 28 | But they , and the set-piece speeches to the party faithful , have also done more for Tory morale than they are given credit for . |
| 29 | The evidence that we have briefly reviewed above for various patterns of flip-flop and phonologically conditioned interchanges between adjacent vowels is much richer than anything we can hope to recover from history . |