Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [verb] [adv prt] for [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After their big score on Wednesday , world champions Pakistan were skittled out for just ninety-three at New Road . |
| 2 | Phoenix were bowled out for just 46 , Bill Dwyer top scoring with an unbeaten 21 . |
| 3 | The troubles are going on for over 20 years and the NI Office is doing very little about it , so it could go on for another 20 years . |
| 4 | An area of one square mile around Oxford Street was sealed off for almost five hours and traders , already hit by recession , lost millions of pounds . |
| 5 | Media people , people from the advertising company Andy has just left , a few politicians — mostly Tory or Social Democrats though there are a couple of Labour guys — bankers , lawyers , business advisers , investment experts , actors , TV people — at least one film crew , though their lights are switched off for now — various other city types , a scattering of people who are , well , just professionally famous , and the remainder seemingly either part of some enormous floating meta-party or hired from some agency to impersonate people having a whale of a time : Rent-a-Hoot or something similar . |
| 6 | ‘ If anything , containers were left in for too long to start with , though often it works well to leave the containers rinsing while you 're doing something else like working out field rates . ’ |
| 7 | There were no serious injuries , but one passenger was cut by flying glass and traffic was held up for over an hour . |
| 8 | A pair of Derwent jet engines , once fitted to Meteor WL181 and latterly used as runway de-icers were hammered down for only £750 . |
| 9 | GARY STEVENS ' injury torment took another turn for the worse yesterday when the Rangers full-back was ruled out for up to six weeks with a stress fracture of the knee . |
| 10 | Put in on a slow wicket , Montgomeryshire were bundled out for just 65 taking up virtually 45 overs . |
| 11 | Noel Blake was kicked out for exactly the same reason — he could nt handle being in a squad . |
| 12 | Perhaps we should not be surprised that Parliament is closing down for so long . |
| 13 | Their scrum-half Kevin Ellis was sent off for allegedly tripping his opposite number , Paul Bishop . |
| 14 | the end of the football season is on the horizon … and time is running out for both Oxford and Swindon … this weekend they 're both at home |