Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] for the [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And by the way , I have an appointment in the city around eleven , so I may not be back to stand in for the dinner breaks . |
| 2 | But Mr Davies , who leaves behind a lower paid £85,000 at the commission , conceded he would have little difficulty in signing up for the business priorities agreed by the CBI 's governing council for the incoming government . |
| 3 | No behavioural intervention can be designed properly until ABC analysis has been carried out for the problem behaviours under scrutiny . |
| 4 | There 's more to worry about for the team leaders and their directeurs sportifs . |
| 5 | This and other theatres elsewhere were at their peak when the gentry came in for the Quarter Sessions ; for wives and marriageable daughters , there were the balls and concerts of the Assembly Rooms specially built at the back of the George Hotel . |
| 6 | That 's why Chris came in for the baby clothes . ’ |
| 7 | As the rest of the royals head to Balmoral tomorrow morning , Diana will pick up ten-year-old William and Harry , eight , when they break up for the Christmas holidays from Ludgrove school in Wokingham . |
| 8 | The following statement is the conclusion of a report drawn up for the debenture holders of the Bishop 's Castle Railway by Mr. Fraser , now the auditor of the Cambrian , in which he shows that it would pay to make this line independently of any other . |
| 9 | Twenty-six teams turned up for the sporting events which included bowls , mixed netball , darts , 5-a-side football and the ever popular It's-a-Knockout and Superstars events . |
| 10 | ‘ At Elland Road I was expected to go and win the ball and that was about all they liked ! ! — get the ball up to the big front men and look around for the knock downs ’ ( Batts obviously did nt look very hard cos he did nt find many ! ! ) |
| 11 | They 've found the secret of happiness for all ! — Stand by for the labour camps and the mass graves . |
| 12 | So they follow their pseudo-parents as they set off for the village shops , until they feel themselves getting too far from the ‘ nest ’ , and then break off to return to safety . |
| 13 | So I had a er I got him set up for the morning jobs and then I did the afternoon jobs with him . |
| 14 | ‘ Is everything being packed up for the removal men ? ’ |
| 15 | A hunting shark closing in for the kill homes in on the body electricity given off by its victim . |
| 16 | Passengers actually changed into their pyjamas and settled down for the night bunks or convertible seat-beds complete with sheets and blankets . |
| 17 | Once the eagles had got used to the return of Minch they settled down for the summer months . |
| 18 | And so it came to pass that when we broke up for the summer holidays in 1941 , I set off on my bike to the farmer 's new settlement . |
| 19 | Where do you look for a girl who 's nothing to do but drift about for the daylight hours ? |
| 20 | And , imagine all that loose change brought in for the gambling machines bouncing high like metal sparks . |
| 21 | Keeping a little white icing back for the wave crests , tint the remaining royal icing shades of different blues and greens for the sea . |
| 22 | This was in spite of a longer mean time till exclusion or end of follow up for the adenoidectomy cases . |
| 23 | Now it was deserted , shut up for the Christmas holidays . |
| 24 | We compared the incidence in the study areas with national data using the following sources : for childhood cancer , data from the National Registry of Childhood Tumours for 1969–87 ; for young people aged 15–24 , cancer registration statistics for England and Wales for 1971–86 , though these data were not subjected to the review processes carried out for the specialist registries ; for leukaemias and lymphomas in those aged 25–74 , data from the data collection study covering about one third of the population of England and Wales . |
| 25 | Others have just one variety , planted up for the summer months or different flowers mixed with herbs . |