Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] for [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On rehearsal , when our cue came through , we heard him say ‘ I am a sea-gull at the Port of Vancouver ’ instead of the ‘ Fitzpatrick Travelogue ’ script agreed on for this part of the show . |
| 2 | She 'll go up up the path and all I could see was this cat , and it was hanging on for dear life up this big tree and there |
| 3 | to sit down for five minutes after the tea , no the other one was , is that the biggest one ? , thanks , there you are |
| 4 | And David Lee , spokesman for the Football Supporters ' Association said : ‘ We have asked the PFA to support the protest by asking their members to sit down for one minute on Saturday . ’ |
| 5 | Although the flats are very compact , generally following the standards laid down for this type of housing in DoE Design Bulletin 29 , they share the facilities of a jetty on to the river , and a roof-top conservatory and roof garden , all of which were made possible by a £200,000 grant from the Historic Buildings Council . |
| 6 | This can be broadly broken down for descriptive purposes as a program staff of 11 , and a support staff of 4 . |
| 7 | During his two years in charge , he was responsible for the replacement as manager of Billy Bingham by Gordon Lee , stepping down for personal reasons after a comparatively short spell . |
| 8 | After 400 yds , just before ridge rises , bear half left down off ridge : soon lake and outdoor centre passed at start of walk are seen below — make down for right-hand end of lake . |
| 9 | I voted for this government because they said they were n't going to go in for that sort of rubbish . |
| 10 | Yes , Americans , erm I have the impression , they 're being rather slow to go in for this sort of Federal legislation . |
| 11 | Corinthian Geometric goes in for small vessels of very high technical quality , simply and elegantly decorated . |
| 12 | He also goes in for creative self-plundering by way of rhetorical and dialectical self-parody . |
| 13 | ‘ Got to observe strict ARP , you see , Miss , though here we are gettin' on for five months of war and not a peep out of a Jerry plane . |
| 14 | Never use wicker chairs to stand on for odd jobs around the house . |
| 15 | Three operations did not succeed in curing his glaucoma , and he had to give up his business in 1878 , although it was carried on for some years by his daughters , Eleanor , Elizabeth , and Catherine , as E. E. Dancer & Company . |
| 16 | When he 'd been banging on for several minutes about immigration , infiltration , dilution of the great Anglo-Saxon race and a lot more of the same , I seized the opportunity , rather neatly I thought , to observe that indeed things had come to a pretty pass when the name Patel was as common as Smith in England . |
| 17 | But that policy has come in for sharp criticism from monetarists who insist that it has fed the rapid expansion of broad money supply , M4 , and inflamed inflationary pressures . |
| 18 | Superficially attractive and officially , if implicitly , condoned by UNESCO , this theory has come in for severe criticism from Western media interests and journalists . |
| 19 | However , the NRA has come in for some criticism for not taking action . |
| 20 | At the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village eight cops moved in for another raid on a gay bar . |
| 21 | Trinity hit back with a 34th-minute try from David Jones and substitute Paul Round charged over for another touchdown on the hour . |
| 22 | So , as the couple fly off for another holiday in Richard 's private jet , they can be happy in the knowledge that in the unlikely event that Richard should ever loose his millions , they 'll be able to live on love . |
| 23 | However , there are many new avenues opening up for qualified staff in areas which have not traditionally been associated with nursing . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's hard to stand up for that length of time , ’ said Couples , who had two double-bogeys in his 71 . |
| 25 | Reading right-wing papers also made people more inclined to believe the Conservative Party had convincing policies and was likely to keep its promises , that Kinnock was neither decisive , nor trustworthy , nor a good leader of a team , and especially that he could not be relied upon to stand up for British interests against the USSR . |
| 26 | You will need a detective , be it a police officer or some individual caught up for good reason in the investigation , who is capable of seeing deeply into people 's characters , of putting himself like Simenon 's Maigret into , not so much other people 's hoes , as into other people 's minds and souls . |
| 27 | GIRDING up for six hours with the Mahabharata is a long training . |
| 28 | She stayed in work until she was 29 walking out for five years with her fiance , an engineer 's blacksmith who was himself a great reader , while they saved up to marry . |
| 29 | The Staffordshire Blithe , whose lower reaches escaped the axe and are therefore witness to how exquisite a properly managed river can be , was picked out for special mention in the Journal of Agriculture for 1927 . |
| 30 | He numbers among his close friends Patrick Hourcade of French Vogue , who looks out for fine furniture for him . |