Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] for [art] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Sir Geoffrey were to ask you to carry on for a bit longer , would you be willing to do so ? " |
| 2 | And it 's being pencilled in for the weekend after Wigan are due to defend their world sevens title in Sydney on February 5-7 . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's probably only one of the local kids sneaking in for a look around , ’ Jessamy tried to reassure herself . |
| 4 | At £17.50 a ticket , I expected the band to come on for a bit longer or were they all dashing off to see Lady Chatterley too ? |
| 5 | She sat at the table and painstakingly wrote down the sums of money that should have come in for the work already done . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm always on the lookout for players who will benefit Derry City and Ian has agreed to come over for a month initially , ’ said Coyle . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm always on the lookout for players who will benefit Derry City and Ian has agreed to come over for a month initially , ’ said Coyle . |
| 8 | They are cared for by the shepherds , who would once have come up for the summer along with the animals , and slept in their traditional , bleak little cabins ; nowadays , they are for the most part motorized and can commute genteelly to the livestock from their homes below . |
| 9 | You 're obviously more cautious than you were before , and erm a lot of kids now they tend to stand back for a while just in case 'cause you can never judge how fast they 're really going to go through there . |
| 10 | We were in Glasgow last weekend , and were quite chuffed when Ewan consented to come out for a walk just with us two , as he clings to Joyce a bit at the moment . |
| 11 | The presenting problem should be recognised , for example , ‘ Your niece wondered if you would like us to arrange for you to come out for the day once a week ? ’ |
| 12 | KNOCKING AROUND for a while now . |
| 13 | But the attitude of women content to stay in their middle-level comfort zones came in for a lot too — not only from a male chief executive who had seen one of his recruits retreat from the fast track , but from senior female executives as well who felt women ‘ should take their share of responsibility for low applications for senior jobs . ’ |
| 14 | As the fans tune in and line up for the battle ahead . |
| 15 | Willi frequently turned up for the sessions where Therese was working with Luiza , Freddi and Alfred . |
| 16 | Mm , er what to think , oh I ca n't think of any words , oh we 're going to go off for an interview now anyway . |
| 17 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 18 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 19 | Hang on for a second please . |
| 20 | Forester 's fear was not so much that the room might not have been available , but that if Hennessy had moved out the hotel might be closed down for the off-season altogether . |
| 21 | FIDE said yesterday it would ask the Russian Anatoly Karpov and Dutchman Jan Timman ( beaten by Short in a qualifying event ) to play off for the title instead . |
| 22 | Legal contracts drawn up for the appeal also guarantee that all the money , which now stands at £270,000 , must be spent on the unit . |
| 23 | There the rooms were filled with ancient furniture , preserved under white sheets , as if the house had been closed up for the summer only , while its occupant was absent . |
| 24 | I 'm going out for a minute anyway , . |
| 25 | How about going out for a meal instead ? ’ |
| 26 | Watch out for the day when the daisies in the grass show their flowers close enough together for you to feel that spring is really here . |
| 27 | Watch out for the quality too . |
| 28 | ‘ I made excuses , said I thought he 'd be too busy and so on , so she said , ‘ Well , just pop round for a drink then . ’ |
| 29 | I going round for a collection too . |
| 30 | If you live too far away to drive up for the day why not go for an extended weekend ? |