Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [adv] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd been pressing me to come down here for a long time . |
| 2 | Leeds boss Doug Laughton moved in quickly for the 31-year-old former Test forward after he was listed at £20,000 at his own request . |
| 3 | Leeds boss Doug Laughton moved in quickly for the 31-year-old former Test forward after he was listed at £20,000 at his own request . |
| 4 | Filling in perfectly for the missing men , women filled in the gaps in such important industries as agriculture , to provide food , weapons and munitions manufacturing , and railways and transport . |
| 5 | If you would like to know more about the people and processes that keep water running for you 24 hours a day , why not send off now for the comprehensive free brochure below . |
| 6 | Grown up enough for a proper kiss , I wonder ? ’ |
| 7 | There has been , I think has put it adequately very well , that there are members who 've turned up really for no real reason but to speak on a minor item which members of their group could 've taken on their behalf , and therefore erm , I , I do support that we need to look at that particular issue , and I think that can be dealt with under the present chairs arrange arrangement without having to have permanent chairs . |
| 8 | Although desperately tired both had pushed any thoughts of sleep from their minds , though after checking in at the hotel , the Vendome … chosen for its proximity to the station … , they had each taken a long , refreshing shower before meeting up again for a late breakfast in the dining room . |
| 9 | A 12-inch of the ‘ Sheriff Fatman ’ and ‘ Rubbish ’ singles put out primarily for the overseas market but available over here because the former is fairly hard to get hold of now . |
| 10 | A 12-inch of the ‘ Sheriff Fatman ’ and ‘ Rubbish ’ singles put out primarily for the overseas market but available over here because the former is fairly hard to get hold of now . |
| 11 | Looking around then for a non-union post he succeeded in getting an appointment to the Script Department at Ealing Studios , a complex famous the world over for its comedies . |
| 12 | Cotte ( pp. 71 – 2 ) distinguishes two main senses of let , the first of which is described as " the non-intervention of an agent in an action which has been initiated independently of him/her and has been going on already for a certain time " , and can be illustrated by : ( 214 ) He would n't even dance with her at Gavin 's party . |
| 13 | Hood : a well-shaped hood which closes down well for a snug fit . |
| 14 | TWO youngsters cuddled up yesterday for a special ‘ thank you ’ to the man who gave them life . |
| 15 | Well , the surgery 's at half eleven till half twelve so we pop back here for a quick cup of tea and I want to go up to Felixstowe . |
| 16 | It would be a record label for their own music and for the struggling artists just waiting out there for the benevolent despotism of the Beatles to pluck them from obscurity . |
| 17 | St Peter walked along silently for a long distance . |
| 18 | Every Sunday the family get up early for an enormous American breakfast — pancakes , ham , waffles with maple syrup , and then later on in the afternoon they all sit down to an English roast . |
| 19 | I thought he might want to go out there for a little while |
| 20 | After his experiences photographing there , he found it very difficult to continue the rather dull life of a colonial portraitist , and soon set off again for the strange and exotic land of Siam . |
| 21 | Mourners of some Britons are due to fly out today for a final look at their loved ones . |
| 22 | Well no I did it last week and one of the references I could n't remember the name of the woman , so I just put Mrs blank and I just left it so I thought I 'd do it again cos there were a couple of bits I did wrong and a bit dodgy , so I though save me writing it I 'll just do it all over again but it looks like I 'm not gon na be able to now because we 've brought out here for a piddling stupid fire drill ! |
| 23 | It should be emphasised , however , that the crude rate is probably an underestmate of the true proportion of recurrent ulcers , because it assumes that patients who were withdrawn ( and therefore not followed up endoscopically for the entire 12 months ) did not develop an ulcer relapse . |
| 24 | He rolled as he hit the ground , and flipped onto his feet again while he looked around frantically for the other dragon . |
| 25 | Rincewind looked around nervously for a tall figure in black ( wizards , even failed wizards , have in addition to rods and cones in their eyeballs the tiny octagons that enable them to see into the far octarine , the basic colour of which all other colours are merely pale shadows impinging on normal four-dimensional space . |
| 26 | Tomorrow I shall be asking three or four salient witnesses to stay on here for an extra night after the others have gone home . |
| 27 | By 27 May , though , things had quietened down sufficiently for a daring ( or foolhardy ) party to charter a steamboat from Batavia ( now Djakarta ) and sail out to the islands to see what was going on . |
| 28 | specialist , and ( 2 ) the conceptual relationship between movement and drama had never been worked out sufficiently for the practical relationship to become clear . |
| 29 | Straightening up again for a brief rest , he worked out a method of getting through the opening . |
| 30 | Our main 1979 survey was designed largely to throw light on this relationship between people 's knowledge about credit and how they make actual shopping decisions — the first major study to explore this in this country , and more searching in this respect than even the valuable American studies carried out recently for the National Commission on Consumer Finance and the Federal Reserve Board . |