Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] for a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Dosh — I was pretty sure it was Dosh — and I danced some and she finished off the Kümmel , which meant we then had to sit down for a while near the window , where some scatter cushions had been laid . |
2 | Firms would invite favoured clients or business associates down for a day at Sandwich , either as a reward for past favours rendered or in the hope that the goodwill created would lubricate some future deal . |
3 | UB may be pencilled in for a show in the King 's Hall on January |
4 | The Defence Minister barely flinched as the camera zoomed in for a close-up of his face as they ran the famous film clip from mid-December , 1987 , in which he promised that it would all be over by Christmas . |
5 | The Defence Minister barely flinched as the camera zoomed in for a close-up of his face as they ran the famous film clip from mid-December , 1987 , in which he promised that it would all be over by Christmas . |
6 | She had been accepted for the job at Ardis & Co , looking the way she normally looked , but if to keep her job — and she had no idea at that stage whether there was a Vasey junior , or similar , at G Vasey Ltd — she had to go in for a bit of de glamorisation , then so be it . |
7 | Chris , tall , lithe and manly , strips off and goes in for a swim in his panda-briefs . |
8 | He goes in for a sort of hall-of-mirrors self-impersonation , telling people how he would have done the murder if he had done it ( which he has ) . |
9 | However , the Green Paper has come in for a variety of criticisms and there is little evidence that its recommendations will be acted upon in the short- or medium-term . |
10 | He had come in for a book of stamps , and when he had got it he joined Breeze , who was waiting on the Green . |
11 | JACQUES Delors has come in for a lot of flak for the collapse of the Gatt world trade talks . |
12 | The prince has come in for a lot of criticism from the UN and the West for spending most of the past few months in China . |
13 | Hello er , I 'm phoning on behalf of Mrs Ada er she 's got to come in for a scan on the fourth of February , nine o'clock , now we 've only just got back from the hospital today , cos she oh , she had to go today for one , yeah , and we 've just |
14 | He used to come in for a couple of drinks . |
15 | If you 'd care to come in for a cup of tea , now that you 've got out and everything , you 'd be most welcome . |
16 | We are able to stand down for a while in the evening to get some sleep , write letters , play darts or watch TV . |
17 | Pam has come down for a day of shopping , bringing along our adopted younger sister Kath . |
18 | I 'll have booked in for a course in Bristol starting in September — an art course , no one cares what art students look like — or drama maybe . |
19 | ‘ All you have to do is hang in for a couple of days , ’ she told herself . |
20 | and go out and that , if you want to come down for a couple of days . |
21 | He could remember what a flurry Martha Pritchett used to get into when Lady Debrace stopped in for a cup of tea , and how afterwards she would tell them proudly how her ladyship had sat down and chatted as if she were no grander than Nurse Wilks ! |
22 | PLACE your bets with Bugsy — and you could be jetting off for a week in Las Vegas the gambling capital of the world . |
23 | But I had neither stumped up for a bale of fluffy bathroom towels , nor chipped in to the Qantas ticket . |
24 | In LONDON dealers were gearing up for a rush of prospective buyers . |
25 | BARCLAYS , the biggest plastic card issuer , is gearing up for a blitz on card fraud in the run-up to Christmas . |
26 | Tomorrow night we 're back with the display team , this time in the city of San Diego where huge and hungry crowds built up for a game of American football . |
27 | She led the way into the communal hall which she personally had taken upon herself to brighten up with a vase of dried flowers and a couple of good , but ancient , rugs which she had picked up for a song at an auction sale . |
28 | After Arnold died , Nancy , feeling more strongly than ever what she had always known , that he was the only man she had loved , came to live permanently in the house where he had always seemed happiest , a piece of property he had picked up for a song in the sixties from Barone Dulcibene 's father-in-law , old Count Umberto Baderini . |
29 | ‘ All I did was come out for a walk before going to bed , and I was about by that place where the bank 's caved in , when somebody jumped me from behind . |
30 | When I wandered out for a surf-check in the morning , Michael was sitting on the bench . |