Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] for [art] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah it wo n't I mean , that wo n't stay on for an hour I mean I 've literally had a hot bath put the water on , you know , af it goes off at nine o'clock in the morning put that radiator , put that button on to reset the hot water for five minutes it 's bo boilers lit up ten minutes and then it 's gone off |
| 2 | Yeah , and if goes in for a pint he gives you a packet now . |
| 3 | Clearly Helen has looked for ‘ explanations ’ to help her deal with such a painful experience , and the one she seems to have come up with is that she was picked on for the way she looks . |
| 4 | It started when a man working in the sorting office was suspended for refusing to stand in for a colleague who 'd gone sick . |
| 5 | An animal capable of symbolization can carry away from a situation an inner trace that stands in for the response it may make when it next encounters the situation . |
| 6 | He said I ca n't pay you till Tuesday cos the money ai n't come through for the work he said . |
| 7 | Send off for the copies you missed and complete your collection of Britain 's newest , brightest gardening magazine . |
| 8 | Please forgive the shortish letter , but I am trying to catch up for the time I was ill , and have quite a heavy teaching programme . |
| 9 | They therefore wanted information items to spell out for the workers what would and would not be appropriate action to take . |
| 10 | Aware that there was no accepted path for women in deacons ' orders in the Church of England , she had nevertheless looked around for a curacy which would put her in possession of solid parish experience . |
| 11 | So after toddling about for a while you go into Barries ’ and point out the shorts where they lie in the window , interleaved with their fellows . |
| 12 | More than two negative reasons for accepting a job can take a heavy toll on your resources of enthusiasm , particularly if you had the added disappointment of being turned down for the post you 'd really hoped for at the time . |
| 13 | ‘ That 's why I put in for the R.F.C. We 're literally the only sportsmen left . ’ |
| 14 | It was a suspiciously long letter for someone who seldom wrote any , and when Rain was waiting to set off for the office he was still tapping away at it . |
| 15 | ‘ I guess when I show up for the Majors I 'll be a little more popular . |
| 16 | Objectively , Karen was prepared to go almost as far as her predecessor , and her eager greed more than made up for the thrill I used to get from subjecting dogged , cow-like Manuela to the same routines . |
| 17 | In one task — rhyme monitoring — subjects were asked to listen out for a word which rhymed with a cue word given in advance ( e.g. doubt ) . |
| 18 | But there was no defence to be made out for the people she 'd met today . |
| 19 | The next time they are able to gather together enough courage to set out for the supermarket they may get only as far as point B before they have had enough , anticipating more extreme levels of anxiety if they continue . |
| 20 | For many people it is a matter of looking around for the car they want and then frantically trying to arrange the finance , whilst the ‘ offer ’ still holds . |
| 21 | Shop around for the system which will best suit the practice concerned rather than accept the most readily available ( such as the packages which the computer salesman will be keen to sell with the machine ) . |
| 22 | After wandering about for a while she finally got her bearings and found the splendid staircase that led to the grand hall and the main entrance . |
| 23 | But erm you see , they suggested going down for a meeting he 's up to his eyes in it ! |
| 24 | so , if , if , if they 're all four of them coming er and she says about going in for a meal I shall say oh well if you feel like it go and do that then and come for your tea I mean it 's just putting them round table is n't it ? |
| 25 | Before turning in for the night I telephoned Fred Workman to say I would be back at my desk by mid-morning and would be covering the visit of Mr Gladstone Murray to our city , his meetings and his broadcast speech , for the next day 's evening edition . |
| 26 | His stars are real , the issues are real and , yes , the pauses those emotional , heart-felt mental delays when people open up for the cameras they , too , are so very , very real . |
| 27 | I know that our children by enlarge er their vocabulary does n't extend to erm what er , polysyllabic words which which might really sum up for an adult what they 've been going through , how they 've enjoyed it but what is the terrible form we had last year in seventh year , was it seven G ? |
| 28 | if I 'm going out for a meal I prefer to try something different , you can have a steak at home , I mean |
| 29 | They 're asking people to look out for the substances which were in a large grey plastic box . |
| 30 | In keeping with their true natures , some look out for a dealer who has passed it , and beg him to sit it again , for them . |