Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv prt] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , Karen 's quick intelligence and enthusiasm make up for any problems caused by her disability , and Janet says , she 's a big asset to the salon . |
| 2 | Fortunately the driver made up for this heresy by roundly cursing the French , whom he disliked for the same reason that most Englishmen do — the way they clutter up the place , never get out of the way and ca n't speak English . |
| 3 | Well A Alison goes out for one evening so that means I have to get back early for that evening |
| 4 | Aldergrove stands by for big take-off |
| 5 | At the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village eight cops moved in for another raid on a gay bar . |
| 6 | If the pilot light goes out for any reason , a heat-sensing thermocouple detects the fault and prevents the main gas supply from operating . |
| 7 | However , Queen 's will be struggling for a scrum-half with former Irish Schools ' skipper Kenton Hillman ruled out for two months because of a shoulder injury , while centre Gerry Ross is heading for Trinity . |
| 8 | The Virgilianism of Hardy cries out for further investigation . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The wreckage of several crashed aircraft laid out for detailed examination . |
| 11 | I will be true despite thy scythe and thee ’ ) , in Sonnet 116 the Friend seems to have receded into the background while the poet stands up for all men ; Although the poet 's love is included in the affirmation , I would agree with Ingram and Redpath in seeing the poem rather as ‘ a meditative attempt to define perfect love ’ . |
| 12 | When agricultural improvers visited Sussex in the war years they had little favourable to say about the situation in general and the Weald came in for wholesale condemnation , although there was some disagreement about the details . |
| 13 | Greville Starkey 's riding of the horse came in for fierce criticism , but he made no mistake in Dancing Brave 's next race , drawing right away from Triptych to win the Coral-Eclipse Stakes at Sandown Park . |
| 14 | If the green light came on for either project , the paper would go straight to capitalization as a commercial company . |
| 15 | — STRESSHOLME Golf Club came in for high praise yesterday after staging the Mizuno Tournament a major event for assistant professionals . |
| 16 | She was in effect bought out for 15,000 marks . |
| 17 | In the same way , key performance indicators set up for each function are reviewed quarterly against its business plan with relevant managers ‘ but it 's not a dull , dry event : it 's when everybody pulls together , discussing everything that 's happening in great depth and giving managers the opportunity to explain to directors why they 're falling short , the constraints and obstacles , and so achieving agreement with the figures and the indicators used , ’ he said . |
| 18 | ‘ Jerry here will snore his afternoon beer-snore , so I am jus ’ gon na have to put a pillow over my head and pray to God the roof stays on for another winter . ’ |
| 19 | Dazed survivors screamed out for loved ones as they wandered through the rubble . |
| 20 | Though modern readers might wish to repay Mr Ruskin 's ‘ hard work ’ recorded in a 1854 entry , with hard labour , the practice of dismembering books went on for many centuries . |
| 21 | This pantomime went on for some time and , inevitably , the emotional strain brought on a resurgence of his symptoms . |
| 22 | Feeling the pinch : chief executive Jane Tozer ( left ) and marketing manager Jill Warren ( right ) expect potential clients to hold off for some time . |
| 23 | They were exactly the sort you 'd expect to see at this kind of activity : mostly middle-aged or older Americans or Germans in running shoes , with a few earnest Guardian readers thrown in for local colour . |
| 24 | Not that it 'd need to — Grandmaster Chess might be showing its age a bit , but if you can put up with its idiosyncrasies it 's a bargain at £1.99 , especially with Renaissance Othello thrown in for good measure . |
| 25 | You could n't afford to have drivers sitting around for ten minutes not doing anything , so you married these routes up together and were able to , by manipulation , get them to a more economical run . |
| 26 | We 'll just have lunch , and then I 'm sure you 've got a wonderful programme lined up for this afternoon ! ’ |
| 27 | 3 Upon impact , the whole of the body weight follows through for maximum effect . |
| 28 | NIGERIAN prince Andrew Harriman warmed up for next week 's Pilkington Cup rugby final repeat against Bath with a regal hat-trick of tries for Harlequins in a 64-6 win at Plymouth . |
| 29 | Let him go ’ , so the interpreter sat down and M. Ver carried on for five minutes more . |
| 30 | The fighting dragged on for another year , during which time the Nationalist armies occupied Catalonia and the ever-precarious unity of the Republican political forces collapsed . |