Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [adv] for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Cos I 've got ta make up for the sleep I lost erm yesterday .
2 Eyeing the police car , she wondered whether it belonged to Officer Hassan and whether it was worth hanging around for a word with him .
3 A few of the songs here appeared on Setzer 's ‘ The Knife Feels Like Justice ’ records , but this new LP is still probably worth checking out for the rumbling ‘ ( Do n't Sell My Daddy ) No More Whiskey ’ .
4 Even in such classic areas as the Mississippi delta , where sediment is thought to be accumulating rapidly , there is plenty of evidence to suggest that , after building up for a while , much of it is carried away again .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 I began trying to play ‘ God Save the King ’ , but after tapping away for an hour with one finger I had n't made much progress .
8 After holing up for the winter of 2512 the horde descended into the eastern provinces of the Empire .
9 Mr Venables of Lilac Grove , Whitby , Ellesmere Port , collapsed at a friend 's flat in Rock Ferry after going out for a drink in May .
10 A WORKER was fired after nipping out for a Coke and ice during a 15-hour shift at a sweltering print works , a tribunal heard yesterday .
11 ‘ We found Prune Island , as Palm was known in those days , after calling in for a spot of sight-seeing .
12 The general conclusion of these analyses was that unemployment and imprisonment were related , in the sense that , after controlling statistically for the level of crime and numbers convicted , an increase in the level of unemployment led , on average , to an increase in the numbers incarcerated .
13 Cairns , convinced an earlier declaration could have given Notts a chance of victory , at one stage squatted in mid-pitch with his head in his hands and was only directed back to the middle after setting off for the pavilion .
14 After messing about for a while , they roped in drummer Anthony — Derbyshire born , now a Nottingham resident — and discovered common musical ground .
15 I tried hers on anyway and after rummaging about for a bit I found one I liked .
16 After clocking on for a night shift they did not start work immediately but went instead to the canteen for a cup of tea .
17 It is worth pausing here for a moment to reflect on the weight of traditional thinking that McDowell is seeking to shift :
18 Concurrent reading reduced the rate of tapping more for the right than for the left finger .
19 But umm I sort of drove on for a bit and thought it feels alright and then when I got to that , you know B P petrol station , I pulled in and got out and had a look .
20 Of course , I 'll have to do an internship first , then a stint as a registrar before I can even think of looking around for a practice of my own . ’
21 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 .
22 Conflicting reports on Oct. 23 suggested , however , that Schiphol air traffic controllers had in fact erred in advising the pilot to circle Amsterdam instead of heading directly for the airport before making an emergency landing .
23 There also lay embedded in the system the inequality of paying not for the job but for the qualifications : degrees received a year 's extra increment and as a result earnings differentials rose .
24 So instead of waiting indefinitely for a buyer , they have decided to try selling their house by auction .
25 Now I did not have the slightest intention of going down for a drink : all the drinking I was going to do was at the reception — if I ever got to the wedding .
26 Philip Larkin , a life-long bachelor , memorialised that dilemma in ‘ Vers de société ’ ( 1971 ) , a short poem where the conclusion , though finely balanced , is only marginally in favour of going out for the evening .
27 Paddlers are then faced with the choice of going upstream for a mile to Broomhill Bridge or downstream 3 miles to Grantown-on-Spey to lift out .
28 When Frank heard that Michael thought of going in for the prize on this set book he was indignant and sent a message to Michael , ‘ Who in his senses would read a book by a bishop ? ’
29 A bit of security of employment so they can sort of sort out for an holiday .
30 so I 'm thinking of staying there for a while
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